[Solved: Issue was I'm a moron.] Satisfactory Benchmarking instantly shuts off my video output until power reset (and other oddities).

[Oafkad]

Hey folks,

 

I've been having issues since I upgraded to Windows 11. Which amusingly only happened because a Windows 10 patch was giving me incredible grief. I'm apparently a fan of abusive relationships. Regardless, I've got some strange issues. I want to start off with what I know.

 

1. Temperatures are alright, fantastic even. I'm idling between 30C and 40C on my CPU and GPU respectively (closer to 30 than 40).
   1. CPU Idles at 30-40C, 4K Satisfactory with everything max gets us to 35-40C.
   2. GPU Idles at 30-40C, 4K Satisfactory gets us up to about 70C.
2. If I click the this menu option it instantly (literal fraction of a second) shuts off my video output and appears to crash my computer. Requires a power cycle. Pretty much the second my finger lifts up off the mouse button it is dead.
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   2. I can play the game for literally hours without issue. No matter how large my base is, never a problem and I never even get remotely close to concerning temperatures.
3. I am water cooled now because of a fan controller issue I was having in W11, I'm very happy to say no leaks, and I'm happy with the temps.
4. This issue existed for about a month so far. Water cooling was days ago.
5. The Event Viewer doesn't provide any errors...kinda. It DOES provide the following "Information" updates that look a whole lot like errors to me.
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   2. This is an example, there are quite a few but I don't want to go too ham on uploads.
   3. By quite a few I mean 21 .
6. Path to Exile 2 will do the same thing and crash my PC if I alt and tab out of it. Very consistent. Honestly playing with graphics settings at all seem to kill.

 

CPU Specs (from DXDiag):

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor (16 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
Memory: 65536MB RAM

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 TI Asus Strix, probably has a comically long full name. Because Gaming.

 

I think that's everything. My ram is definitely happily seated, my GPU is happily seated, all of my fans are working and the water cooling is doing shockingly well for a first timer. I'm just honestly at a loss. I like to think of myself as "tech smart" but this one has me stumped. The internet has some canned responses about running random commands but I was hoping to get a bit more detail than that. As a fun fact at the end of this rambling, I've had Satisfactory open while typing this up at maximum settings. Still sitting at 35 C on the CPU and 70C on the GPU. So I don't think its an overheating problem, not even sure a part could overheat literally instantly.

 

Thanks in advance even if nobody has an idea. I just appreciate the read and perhaps a buddy or two to try and decipher this weird ass puzzle.

 

Edit:

Peak troll humor. Windows tells me to go to a specific drive location to get the dump files for these errors.

Then hits me with this gem, and the admin continue won't work. Thanks Jimothy Microsoft, very helpful.

 

[podkall]

GPU hotspot temps? Also what PSU do you have brand and model?

[Oafkad]

2 hours ago, podkall said:

GPU hotspot temps? Also what PSU do you have brand and model?

Great questions.

 

Satisfactory after soaking (3 Hours Apparently):

That definitely seems like a problem, not sure if it is the problem just because I was experiencing this before I did anything to the GPU. But I'll see about repasting the GPU to get better results there. I feel like I got pretty consistent coverage across the whole die but perhaps not.

 

World of Warcraft after soaking (12 Minutes):

 

Figure its two games I like to play so included both.

 

Power supply is CORSAIR RM1000x Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (just nabbed the title from Amazon, wordy). I recognize its overkill but here we are.

 

[KnoT]

107C on hot spot?! There is your answer. 

[Oafkad]

So I guess the stock cooler was also having issues. I'll keep that in mind. Will check back in once this is resolved. Edit: Worth noting, I found a software called "WhoCrashed" and it looks like you are correct. Well dang, did good on no leaks but clearly suck ass at thermal paste (or I was too gentle when closing it up). You live and you learn.

[podkall]

12 hours ago, Oafkad said:

Satisfactory after soaking (3 Hours Apparently):

Yeah 105C on hotspot is the maximum value, at this point the GPU is already throttling it's performance,

 

and yeah if the temps suddenly spike beyond certain threshold the GPU just shuts down completely to avoid damage.

 

11 hours ago, Oafkad said:

So I guess the stock cooler was also having issues. I'll keep that in mind. Will check back in once this is resolved. Edit: Worth noting, I found a software called "WhoCrashed" and it looks like you are correct. Well dang, did good on no leaks but clearly suck ass at thermal paste (or I was too gentle when closing it up). You live and you learn.

You said you have 30-series GPU, did you buy it now or used? How old is it if you know?

 

To fix hotspot temps on old card, usually involves disassembling, removing old and applying new thermal paste and closing it up, maybe while it's open also dusting it a bit aswell.

 

For less technical fixes, how good is your case airflow? And do you clean the case from dust at least once every few months?

[Oafkad]

 

I had whole ass missed an entire thermal pad when putting the GPU back together, so all the chips on the back of the GPU die were uncovered. I honestly have no words. I was being so careful I thought but I missed it and didn't notice the extra pad that came with my water block I guess... They had given me extra screws (this I confirmed to be the case today), so I guess my dumb brain said "Well clearly they just like giving you extra free stuff."

 

I also might be the first person in the world to rip off an entire toenail while putting a water cooling loop back together...so this took literal blood and sweat. Didn't spill any of the coolant...but my carpet is a new color regardless.

 

It does appear that my problem before and now was the same! I guess my GPUs original paste and stuff was shit. So when I rebuilt it as water cooling my shit job was just as bad as the state it was in before.

So thank you both! Your help was huge. This is why I try to keep an open mind and not be a know-it-all, because I dead ass do not know it all.

 

As for your questions. I bought it during the "great drought" years ago. Happened to get it for MSRP at the time. The air flow through the case is quite good, that was something I had good prior too. Which is why I was grasping at straws. I figured "If I'm gonna clean the GPU I might as well fuck around with water cooling. Honestly I'm glad I did, even if I fucked it up on the first try I really enjoyed the experience. Now I'm an entire tear down and rebuild up with no leaks again. I'm not surprised people like doing this.

 

That benchmark now works and I'm not having any issues at all. I'll check PoE2 later, if that works a friend of mine is going to be over the moon (he's wanted to play with me but it kept crashing).

 

I hope you both have a great Christmas or whatever else you might celebrate!

[podkall]

37 minutes ago, Oafkad said:

 

I had whole ass missed an entire thermal pad when putting the GPU back together, so all the chips on the back of the GPU die were uncovered. I honestly have no words. I was being so careful I thought but I missed it and didn't notice the extra pad that came with my water block I guess... They had given me extra screws (this I confirmed to be the case today), so I guess my dumb brain said "Well clearly they just like giving you extra free stuff."

 

I also might be the first person in the world to rip off an entire toenail while putting a water cooling loop back together...so this took literal blood and sweat. Didn't spill any of the coolant...but my carpet is a new color regardless.

 

It does appear that my problem before and now was the same! I guess my GPUs original paste and stuff was shit. So when I rebuilt it as water cooling my shit job was just as bad as the state it was in before.

So thank you both! Your help was huge. This is why I try to keep an open mind and not be a know-it-all, because I dead ass do not know it all.

 

As for your questions. I bought it during the "great drought" years ago. Happened to get it for MSRP at the time. The air flow through the case is quite good, that was something I had good prior too. Which is why I was grasping at straws. I figured "If I'm gonna clean the GPU I might as well fuck around with water cooling. Honestly I'm glad I did, even if I fucked it up on the first try I really enjoyed the experience. Now I'm an entire tear down and rebuild up with no leaks again. I'm not surprised people like doing this.

 

That benchmark now works and I'm not having any issues at all. I'll check PoE2 later, if that works a friend of mine is going to be over the moon (he's wanted to play with me but it kept crashing).

 

I hope you both have a great Christmas or whatever else you might celebrate!

Hah, shit happens I suppose.

 

I also re-pasted my GPU recently and the whole process was decently stressful for me too, but all I really did was undusting and re-pasting it, I kept the pads however they were previously.

 

Glad you've got it resolved, and enjoy your Christmas too.