Need Help - RTX 3080 Ti Crashes in DX12 Games / DLSS Issues

Rhyoxi · April 23

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some help regarding recurring crash issues (black screen or freeze) with my ASUS TUF RTX 3080 Ti (LHR), especially when playing DirectX 12 games like Monster Hunter Wilds and Ready Or Not. The crashes mostly occur during cinematic scenes or when the game is streaming in heavy assets.

My setup is pretty solid: I’m running a Ryzen 9 7950X, 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, and a GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX V2 motherboard. The GPU is directly installed in the primary PCIe x16 slot (no riser cable), and I’m using a 1000W Gold PSU Corsair. Windows 11 Pro is fully up to date, and I installed the NVIDIA 551.86 WHQL driver using a clean DDU install.

The crashes happen with error codes like 0xc0000005 and 0x80000001, and I’ve also seen a LiveKernelEvent 141 reported in the Windows logs. Interestingly, enabling DLSS almost always causes an immediate crash, whereas switching to FSR 2.0 helped reduce crashes during actual gameplay—but they still happen in cinematic sequences.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
I’ve reinstalled the GPU drivers using DDU, disabled all overlays (Steam, NVIDIA, Discord), and run stability tests with OCCT, which came back clean. I also tested the game in both DX11 and DX12 modes, played in windowed and fullscreen modes . I’ve left virtual memory settings to automatic after trying a manual config, which Windows seemed to override anyway. The next step I plan to try is manually forcing the PCIe mode in BIOS from Auto (Gen 4) to Gen 3 to rule out any link instability.

At this point, I’m wondering if this could be a firmware-level issue, a PCIe signal stability problem, or perhaps a quirk with DLSS on this card. If anyone else with a 3080 Ti—especially the ASUS TUF model—has faced something similar, I’d really appreciate your input. Any tips, BIOS tweaks, or even just confirmation that I’m not alone would mean a lot.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.