GPU underclock to play ROTTR without crashes?

[Lord_Karango17]

I've been trying to play the rise of the tomb raider, but one issue that kept coming up was the game freezing after a certain amount of gameplay (usually not much more than a few minutes) and spitting out an error message along the lines of "A problem has occurred with your display driver...consider turning down your settings". While I am playing on my laptop, the settings are not unreasonable for its performance (med @ 900p) as I usually got above 45 fps. After looking it up people said that a workaround was to underclock the gpu, but I was running at the stock clocks, and the gpu had no issues previously.

 

After underclocking the gpu to 900mhz (gpu boost sits the core around 967 mhz in game), i was able to play for over an hour without a crash...

TL DR, do any of you know how to play the game at stock clocks without crashes? The fps isnt too bad with the underclock, but it definitely isnt helping the experience.

[Morgan MLGman]

ROTTR is very picky in terms of overclocks. There's nothing you can do, really.

[Lord_Karango17]

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

ROTTR is very picky in terms of overclocks. There's nothing you can do, really.

I'd understand if it was picky about overclocks, but it was crashing on my gpu's stock clocks, which I find quite odd.

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, Lord_Karango17 said:

I'd understand if it was picky about overclocks, but it was crashing on my gpu's stock clocks, which I find quite odd.

GPUs are stock overlocked usually, you might just have gotten a bad chip or your GPU might start dying soon and ROTTR as being very picky in terms of OC's starts artifacting first.

[Lord_Karango17]

Double post* forum is being derp for me....