Rust keeps crashing

[DarkScott]

Hello everyone. 

 

After I start Rust and join random server and play for a little bit, it keeps on crashing. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes, sometimes it takes 1 hour+, but it will happen, believe me.

The following crashes are:

Games closes on itself (like doing ALT + F4) with no crash message or anything. OR

Game freezes and I have to kill it with task manager. OR 

Blue screen of death (following by: System service_exception message or some random message for example: wfplwfs.sys NOT Handeled). <- This messages are just example, there was many more.

 

The crashes are random (either closing, freezing or blue screen of death), and i really can not understand what is triggering them. The only programs I am using in background (90% of time are chrome and discord). 

Before someone asks I tried playing without any programs running and with and without discord overlay on. It does not help.

 

Solutions I tried so far:

I tried switching all settings to their default, minimum and maximum values but that does not seem to help as well as playing game in fullscreen and window mode.

In nvidia settings I tried switching power management to prefer maximum performance or balanced, but neither helped. Believe me I tried to switch everything on and off, as well as running it with optimal settings through nvidia geforce experience, as well as trying to play game with and without administrator priviliges.

At first I tried to reinstall the game, and it would be okay for a day or two and problem reoccurres. 

After that i tried reinstalling graphics drivers (clean install with ddu), but that didn't help at all.

I said okay, lets crank it up a notch, and reinstall Windows. That worked great for another 3-4 days and problem is back.

It starts getting really annyoing from there on.

I tried updating BIOS as well thinking that might help, but no luck there.

Following I loaded bios default settings (no overclock on anything), but that just did not work. Only thing I have overclocked is RAM from 1333mhz to 3200mhz to specs that were written on the box.

Talking of RAM my current PC specs are:

 

Motherboard: Asus Prime X370-prime pro

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700x with water colling

RAM: G.skill DDR4 3200mhz 4x8gb 

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070

SSD: Samsung 250gb m.2

 

I tried playing with default RAM speed but it was horrible experience since FPS was so low and performanse was awful.

Again everything was repeating itself.

After that I tried cleaning PC very carefuly and blowing out dust and replugging all the components thinking that would change anything but what do you know it did not. I built couple of PC's so I know what I am doing.

I basically tried everything that I could remember or solutions i found on internet like this ones:

https://www.easypc.io/game-hosts/rust/crashing/

https://www.getdroidtips.com/fix-rust-crashing-when-joining-server/

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/solved-rust-keeps-crashing-2019-tips/

 

I tried every single solution listed on those pages, some more than once.

After all of that I tried to stress test my PC with AIDA64 for 30 minutes on maximum load, but the PC took it like a champ. Temps were very stable around 60C for cpu, and 75C-80C at GPU. 

Monitoring Rust with nvidia built-in temp monitor, everything was perfectly stable and temps did not go over cpu:50, gpu: 65. 

 

What I can't comprehend is why it only happens when I play Rust. I played games like COD Warzone 1 and 2, GTA V (with max settings), I know it sounds funny but minecraft with shaders which was far more harder to run than Rust and every game of that was more than 100fps smooth experience with no crashes at all, even doing video editing.

Games like this took way more then 30% of CPU and 45% of GPU utilization comparing what Rust takes.

 

While all of this was happening I bought a new GPU (Rtx 3070) an upgrade from my GTX 1070, but that did not solve the issue.

 

I can keep listing more solutions I tried but I think this post is long enough for anyone to read, so if someone has any solutions or any questions feel free to ask.

 

I have been delaying with this problem for 2 months now so I am very thankful for all the help or any possible solutions for this.

Here I am reinstalling the game for 5th time thinking something would change and thinking about my life decisions. The only solution I can think of is to buy a new pc, which I can not afford rn.

Thank you for reading. 

 

 

 

 

[SpookyCitrus]

Sounds to me like a ram issue, you can use the program BluescreenView and it will give you a list of all detected crashes/bluescreens and give you a better idea.

 

I have dealt with a similar issue in the past where I would have the same issue with only Escape From Tarkov. No other games had issues, however EFT would crash just like this, I tried everything I could to fix it, including reinstalling Windows. Tested all of my hardware individually, etc. Ram tested fine in memtest, Windows memory diagnostic, and didn't have issues on other games. Just out of curiosity I tried a different Ram kit in the system and no more crashes in EFT. Haven't had a crash since. Put my other kit in another system and it works just fine even on EFT in that system. Sometimes Ram can just be a little iffy in a specific hardware configuration. Buying a new Ram kit is a lot cheaper than getting a new computer. Pick up a 2x16GB kit instead of a 4x8GB kit and see if it fixes your crashing issues with Rust.

[DarkScott]

33 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Sounds to me like a ram issue, you can use the program BluescreenView and it will give you a list of all detected crashes/bluescreens and give you a better idea.

 

I have dealt with a similar issue in the past where I would have the same issue with only Escape From Tarkov. No other games had issues, however EFT would crash just like this, I tried everything I could to fix it, including reinstalling Windows. Tested all of my hardware individually, etc. Ram tested fine in memtest, Windows memory diagnostic, and didn't have issues on other games. Just out of curiosity I tried a different Ram kit in the system and no more crashes in EFT. Haven't had a crash since. Put my other kit in another system and it works just fine even on EFT in that system. Sometimes Ram can just be a little iffy in a specific hardware configuration. Buying a new Ram kit is a lot cheaper than getting a new computer. Pick up a 2x16GB kit instead of a 4x8GB kit and see if it fixes your crashing issues with Rust.

Yes, I tested all of the components to and even did RAM test with Windows memory diagnostic and everything checks out fine. 

I think I will buy 2x16gb new RAM kits and I will give it another go. Thats best bet right now.

Thank you for the suggestion and response.

[DarkScott]

If anyone is wondering I fixed the crashing issue, it was the RAM's fault.

I underclocked it from 3200mhz to 2933mhz and game was running stable with no crash issue! I must mention that it run with about 5 - 10% worse performance which is to be expected when you underclock, but still managable and cheaper then to buy new RAM sticks.

Sometimes RAM likes to be little iffy with its setup.

Glad I could help anyone with similar issue.