Crashing Games

drippyhose · September 7, 2022

Hello, I have recently upgraded my entire PC components. Here is a list of everything I've upgraded.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Corsair Vengeance RAM 32GB
CORSAIR - RM Series RM750 Fully Modular Ultra-Low Noise ATX Power Supply - Black
MPG B550 Gaming Plus AMD Motherboard - MSI
NZXT - Kraken X63 RGB All-in-one 280mm Radiator CPU Liquid Cooling System - Black

The only part I haven't upgraded is my CPU which is a AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.60 GHz

Now the issues that I am facing is that certain games crash when I'm playing. I've noticed that it has to do with the games I have installed on Epic Games. Fortnite for an example, I am able to boot up, start the game play a match and finish a game without interruptions. Only when returning to the main lobby the game freezes and then crashes. Dead by Daylight crashes when booting up, sometimes I can get into a match but then crashes loading into the map. I got the game on Steam and I'm able to play a full match until trying to play another is when it crashes. Vanilla Minecraft crashes when playing but with Optifine installed with max shaders, the game doesn't crash. Call of Duty crashes but not all the time it's rare when it happens. (Call of Duty: Vanguard) And recently I bought the game Forewarned a small horror game about exploring Egyptian tombs and the game crashes after a match finishes. Now I have checked all my drivers and everything is up to date. Contacted epic games support and tried adding DirectX11, my BIOS is up to date on the motherboard. I'm stuck! I don't know what else to do. Can anyone help?

An0maly_76 · September 7, 2022

3070 on a 750W PSU MIGHT (and I stress MIGHT) be cutting it a bit thin, but I'm not sure the 3070 has quite the power demands of the 3080.

Since Ryzen and most AMD boards are quite picky about RAM and I have experienced similar issues due to a RAM Instability issue, I would suggest checking your RAM SKU against the RAM QVL list for that board...

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-B550-GAMING-PLUS/support#cpu

Reason being that two weeks after my build was completed, I had a hard shutdown when gaming and from then on had random POST failures with no video about every 8-12 cold boots. Swapped RAM and GPU for troubleshooting and was approved to RMA board. Interim build with the same DIMMs and GPU had issues, no-video POST failure with one of the DIMMs. Replaced with a kit on that board's QVL list, issue ceased. Board returned "could not duplicate issue", reassembled build with RAM from that board's QVL list. The issues with that setup are gone as well. So QVL might be worth looking into for something like this.

Also, be aware that even with QVL recommended RAM, DOCP may not get your timings right, so it pays to double-check DOCP settings. Even with a QVL recommended kit, the board's DOCP wouldn't detect the QVL'd RAM at the timings specified in QVL. So I had to set them manually.

Edited September 7, 2022 by An0maly_76
Revised, more info

BiotechBen · September 7, 2022

31 minutes ago, An0maly_76 said:

3070 on a 750W PSU MIGHT (and I stress MIGHT) be cutting it a bit thin, but I'm not sure the 3070 has quite the power demands of the 3080.

Since Ryzen and most AMD boards are quite picky about RAM and I have experienced similar issues due to a RAM Instability issue, I would suggest checking your RAM SKU against the RAM QVL list for that board...

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-B550-GAMING-PLUS/support#cpu

Reason being that two weeks after my build was completed, I had a hard shutdown when gaming and from then on had random POST failures with no video about every 8-12 cold boots. Swapped RAM and GPU for troubleshooting and was approved to RMA board. Interim build with the same DIMMs and GPU had issues, no-video POST failure with one of the DIMMs. Replaced with a kit on that board's QVL list, issue ceased. Board returned "could not duplicate issue", reassembled build with RAM from that board's QVL list. The issues with that setup are gone as well. So QVL might be worth looking into for something like this.

Also, be aware that even with QVL recommended RAM, DOCP may not get your timings right, so it pays to double-check DOCP settings. Even with a QVL recommended kit, the board's DOCP wouldn't detect the QVL'd RAM at the timings specified in QVL. So I had to set them manually.

Word of note, despite vengeance being on QVL, they can still have very temperamental behaviour (especially LPX) on up to and including 3000 series. First noted it here early 2021 (late Jan/early Feb) and have seen numerous instances since then. Found especially in trying to run dual channel 3200 CL16 or 4 sticks above JEDEC.