Strange behavior in certain games

[Trioxide]

So I recently noticed my GPU "dies" in certain games.

Let me elaborate:

I play alot of STO (Star Trek Online).

 

I build my new rig a month ago:

I7-6700k

Asus Maximus VIII Hero Alpha

Asus Strix R9 390 OC DCIII 8Gb

G.Skill RipJaws V 2x8Gb kit DDR4 3200

The rest is on the bottom in my signature.

 

So, by GPU dying I mean, that the game crashes at random times (sometimes, after 5min, sometimes after 30min, I went a max of 1,5hrs before crashing).

The game crashes in such a way, that the mouse continues responding, and most of the times I don't get an error message.

I ctrl+alt+del to close the game and that's it. But when I do get a error message, it says something like this:

"DX_DEVICE_REMOVED" - I got the error maybe 2-3times, while the crashes are persistent even after 5 clean windows reinstallations.

I tried the following drivers:

-15.12, 15.20, 15.30, 16.1, 16.1.1, 16.2., 16.2.1

Same result with all of the drivers, even if I disale antialiasing and anisotropic filtering ingame.

The game also offers Direct3D 11, Direct3D 9ex and Direct3D 9 rendering - no matter which I choose, the crashes are still here...

Now here's the twisted part, yesterday I ran command & conquer red alert 2 yuri's revenge - a very old game, just for the fun of it - which also stalls and shows no error messages.

Every other game I tried - Mass Effect 1-3, Crysis 1-3, Medal Of Honor Airborne & Warfighter, NFS Most Wanted, Anno 2070, Sins Of A Solar Empire, Bioshock series, Deus Ex series...

None of the other games are crashing, also Furmark, Aida64, 3dmark, realbench, unigine heaven every single benchmark and stress test always passes, no matter how long I leave it running...

Nothing is overclocked, everything is at stock settings, and temp. reaches a max of 80C under heavy load, although with STO it never went over 76C.

 

Any ideas on what to do,I even tried running it in compatibility mode.

Let me just state, that on my laptop (i5 480m, 8Gb ram, RadeOn HD5650m) the games works flawlessly on Direct3D 11 settings.

Both machines run Windows 10 Home 64bit version.

There has to be some kind of trick to it, I don't believe that the GPU is faulty, but I also can't understand why only STO crashes and well RA2 (which btw ran on windows 95 when released)...

[Kryptyx]

Can you try the card in a different PCI slot?

[Trioxide]

wow, that's actually one thing I didn't try yet... though this is the only pcie x16 slot on this mobo, the other ones are x8... will try right away

[Trioxide]

41 minutes ago, Kryptyx said:

Can you try the card in a different PCI slot?

Can't believe I didn't think of switching pcie lane before myself.

And that didn't take long, just exchanged the pcie lane, ran sto, and crashed, again...

I'll be switching my card back to the first lane.

Maybr any other suggestions? I'm out of ideas at this point...

[Kryptyx]

Anything in the windows error log?

[Trioxide]

10 minutes ago, Kryptyx said:

Anything in the windows error log?

That's one thing I never used, where do I find it in Windows 10?

[Trioxide]

If you meant these, this is what I found:

Note, that there's nothing for STO in here, only for RA2