Well, now I can't get BF5 working with the 980ti either. These people really destroyed this game for some.
I noticed that the first time I play the game, it tends to last a lot longer before it crashes. I get like 60 mins in or more sometimes. Then when I try to persist in playing it after the first crash, the subsequent crashes get closer and closer together until it crashes once ever 2 or 3 minutes.
The fact that it gets worse lends itself to my theory that it may be the tensor cores don't have a well placed temp diode (or none at all), and they're overheating. Reminder: the temps reported by the stock thermometer(s) are great even under a stress test (75c max).
I will repeat (since people keep offering ideas / solutions that don't make sense): This is the ONLY game that crashes at all. I have many other games that use a ton of RAM (Cities Skylines is a supreme example), so the "my min RAM voltage isn't enough" almost certainly doesn't apply to me. I have a ton of other games that max out my GPU usage and use a similar amount of vRAM. The only wildcards here are BF5 and ray tracing.
There are no crash logs generated; my BF5/Temp folder exists, but is empty.
Maybe there's more common hardware that exists between us than we realize. Here's a list:
7700k OCed to 4.9ghz
RTX 2080 OCed to +65mhz GPU / +675mhz vRAM
Gigabyte z170 Gaming 5
32GB RAM @ 3200mhz
Windows 10 Pro 1809
417.71 driver
Edit 6:40pm MST: I played about 5 mins before it crashed. I got about 2 or 3 micro-stutters per minute. I feels like it goes into a microstutter that just doesn't recover.
