Crashing with RTX on ONLY

@CElitethe only thing i can appreciate is your psu, under high loads with RTX on system needs more power and your card already is OC version so try using some high PSU , 650w is at least what manufacturer says to run card , if u have extra accessories on computer it may running short for power. try a bigger powersupply should solve your issue. these are power hungry cards esp with rtx on.

Well I've been monitoring power usage, it's nowhere near hitting TDP and my PSU is not being used very much. Note my CPU has a lower TDP as well.

If I were on a 2080Ti I'd definitely be concerned about my 650W, but I'm pretty sure for my 2080 it is sufficient. Beyond that, like I mentioned, I downclocked it by 1000Mhz (less than half speed) and it still crashed just the same.

My PSU is far more taxed when playing VR and my GPU is at max load. In BFV with RTX I'm usually around 60% GPU load, in fact I've turned down settings so low I'm at 40% GPU load. It would have crashed during VR if it was a power supply issue.

As an aside, on another forum there is at least one other person with my exact problem on a 800W PSU.

Hey @CElite, there are new driver for the Nvidia Version 416.94 do a clean install with those drivers and see if that works out for you. 🙂 

When you are playing Battlefield V is your CPU maxing aka 100% usage? 

/Atic 

Unfortunately, as I stated, I've also tested 416.94 (I downgraded to see if that would fix the problem, it did not).

My CPU thread utilization is usually around 75%, maxing out around 82%, with RTX on or off, and in DX11 and DX12 both. With the way DICE was talking about the threading with RTX and expected to see higher CPU utilization, but it's just not happening. My GPU & CPU are at about the same amount of utilization when playing with RTX on.

Hey @CElite, do you run XMP or similar ram Overclock? If you are, try turning it off and see how that works for you. 🙂 

/Atic 

Yeah, I do normally run with XMP & RAM "overclocked" (running at RAM spec), and I normally run a CPU overclock, but in the process of troubleshooting I turned XMP, RAM frequency, and CPU frequency to defaults (took photos of BIOS settings for easily restoring them).

After restoring to default settings I experienced the same crash.

I'm really thinking that either I have some fluke incompatibility with RTX/BFV+RTX because I am using an older chipset (Z170) and/or CPU, or my video card's RT cores are busted.

Have you tried the following?

Open up  "NVIDIA Control Panel" -> from the NVIDIA Control Panel, select the "Manage3D settings" from the left column -> click on the Power management mode drop down box and select "Prefer Maximum Performance".

Yeah, selecting "Prefer Maximum Performance" makes no difference. Crashes as usual.

Hey @CElite, Nvidia released new GPU update yesterday try updating to those and see if you get any improvements.

/Atic

Yeah I did try the latest GPU driver. Still same crashing behavior.

After talking more to some other people with the problem, one saw it fixed by doing a Windows 10 reinstall.

So it looks like my plan of action will be to wait for the BFV RTX patch, then do a Win 10 reformat. I'm considering doing a new PC build which would bring me above the min specs for BFV with RTX on, too.

If I'm still crashing after all that, I'll RMA the card.