Games crashing with 'DeviceHung' errors

BigIdiot · June 6, 2022

Over the last week or two, my PC has started to crash during games on the regular, and every so often blue screen. This started before I made some dramatic changes to my setup, but now its gotten worse/more frequent. The weird thing is, sometimes it will work for an hour, sometimes 5 mins, sometimes it will crash back to desktop while loading. This happens with any game I throw at it. Every error says the device hung, check drivers. Well, I've tried every driver new and old I could find (currently on latest 512.95). Using DDU etc. My case uses a pci-e riser cable and I also have an extra. Both do the same thing, as well as GPU directly into the mobo, ruling out riser issues. I've tried gaming without anything in the background (MSI, FanControl, logitech stuff etc), same issues arise.

This past week I said fuck it, and swapped out my 3700x w/ a 5800x. I updated my BIOS (to 3.70) so it would support the new CPU. After a few shaky starts, it felt back to normal, but GPU issues were the same. I'm about to start fresh, new windows install and see what happens then, but could it just be my GPU?

Anyways, any ideas or things I could attempt? Its pissing me off lol.

5800x

ASrock X570M Pro4

(4x8GB) 32GB G.Skill DDR4-3200

EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra

Windows 10 - OS Sata SSD is kinda old? Maybe move to one of my M.2s?

750w Seasonic Focus Gold

I will say my setup was working flawlessly for the last 7-8 months, and just recently with no changes started acting up. I changed CPU as a possible refresh of the system. Might have made it worse, but the issues were there before the swap.

DreamCat04 · June 7, 2022

11 hours ago, BigIdiot said:

my PC has started to crash during games on the regular

How exactly did it crash? Did you just have game crashes or did your whole system crash/lock up/randomly go off/restart? Also did you remember what the stop codes of your BSODs were?

Edited June 7, 2022 by DreamCat04

BigIdiot · June 9, 2022

On 6/7/2022 at 5:22 AM, DreamCat04 said:

How exactly did it crash? Did you just have game crashes or did your whole system crash/lock up/randomly go off/restart? Also did you remember what the stop codes of your BSODs were?

Just figured it out last night. Turns out it WAS the riser cables, even though initial testing showed even directly plugged into the motherboard it was crashing games. The BSOD's were all related to display issues, and it only blue screened maybe twice. Normally the game would just crash. I did another driver reset, reinstalled Windows 10, so maybe all that helped the issue overall. But straight into the motherboard, works fine. The problem is w/ my Thermaltake P3 which I'm wall mounting, I need a riser as the GPU doesn't fit with my AIO. So I've ordered a new one. I don't really care about PCIE 4.0 as we know it doesn't impact performance significantly, I just need it to mount the card and radiator to the case. But thank you for the assistance!