Cant find any working way to fix the Overwatch "your rendering device has been lost" error

[Mavarise]

Idk if this is the right place to post this but i just bought a gigabyte b450 aorus elite and a ryzen 3700x and some new ram and nvme ssd and reinstalled windows 10. Everything works fine but when i play overwatch i always get the "your rendering device has been lost" error mid game ive tried reinstalling and updateing graphics drivers, scan and repair overwatch and using windows system file checker but nothing works. Please help

[LogicalDrm]

GPU related issue, but you forgot to mention which GPU? Its pretty much telling that either connection on PCIe side is lost midway or driver is crashing. And considering this started after new mobo, have you tried to reseat GPU yet?

[Colty]

I was getting that error with anything more than a tiny GPU overclock (like over +15Mhz and it would freak).

I have also heard of some people needing to underclock their card if they have an "OC" edition to get it back to original speeds. 

[Mavarise]

6 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

GPU related issue, but you forgot to mention which GPU? Its pretty much telling that either connection on PCIe side is lost midway or driver is crashing. And considering this started after new mobo, have you tried to reseat GPU yet?

I have a msi 1050ti. 

And i have not tried reseating gpu bc i only have crashes in overwatch, other games run just fine 

[Mark Kaine]

14 hours ago, Mavarise said:

I have a msi 1050ti. 

And i have not tried reseating gpu bc i only have crashes in overwatch, other games run just fine 

Which model?  Is it factory over clocked? 

 

Some games don't like overclocks,  and a factory overclock is still an overclock, you could try reducing core frequency about 100 and maybe even memory about 50 and see how that goes. 

 

 

[Mavarise]

I tried reseating gpu and underclocking it, nothing worked 

[Mark Kaine]

10 hours ago, Mavarise said:

I tried reseating gpu and underclocking it, nothing worked 

Try updating the mobo BIOS

 

 

[Mavarise]

On 5/25/2021 at 8:34 AM, Mark Kaine said:

Try updating the mobo BIOS

 

 

Tried that aswell, still crashing

[uzivkovic97]

On 7/3/2021 at 7:35 PM, Mavarise said:

Tried that aswell, still crashing

I know this tread is old, but I just had same error pop out.
I have rx470 but you can try on nvidia as well. Apparently, the fix is to enable GPU Scaling.
I enabled it and sice haven't had single issue.

[Mark Kaine]

On 2/23/2023 at 6:00 AM, uzivkovic97 said:

GPU Scaling.

what is this supposed to be anyway? im nvcp, in game settings?  i dunno i never really touched this... 

and maybe, but as i already said some games just hate overclocks... when i oc my vram just +100 it keeps crashing randomly,  without oc it never crashes and other games my vram is "stable" at +500

[uzivkovic97]

On 2/24/2023 at 10:25 AM, Mark Kaine said:

what is this supposed to be anyway? im nvcp, in game settings?  i dunno i never really touched this... 

and maybe, but as i already said some games just hate overclocks... when i oc my vram just +100 it keeps crashing randomly,  without oc it never crashes and other games my vram is "stable" at +500

Idk. After I applied fix I mentioned above, it worked flawlessly for a couple of days and then it started again. Another fix I found is to go to Documents/Overwatch/Settings and delete settings file. This will delete all graphics settings that are applied and when you start the game, It'll run on recommended settings.
After I done this, I haven't changed anything except fps limit and it still works without any problems to this day.

I guess you can try changing one setting at the time and thinker with the game.

I never tried OC my GPU so I don't know much about that