SKATE. Crashing entire PC on Launch

Devs,

I have an AMD CPU (9800X3D) and an NVIDIA 5080, 64gb RAM, 2TB SSD.

If I want to play SKATE. I must launch the game and then quickly open up a different program so it's in the foreground while SKATE. loads up in the background. If I mess this up and forget to open the secondary program sometimes the game just crashes and gives me a DirectX Error talking about how there was an improper command that tried to destroy my GPU or my GPU was physically removed from the system (It was not.)

I wanted to make this clear here because I can see a PC Newbie trying SKATE, it crashing his entire computer and him being afraid to ever try to launch SKATE. ever again. It was scary the first few times because I thought I was locked out of the game. It first happend on Steam so I switched to EA App and thought I fixed it for good because the problem stopped for a long time.

Right around Season 3 is when I started having issues launching the game again this 2nd time around.

I have turned off XMP because someone online said something about a memory leak if you have XMP turned on. I also notice the game SKATE. doesn't automatically show up in the NVIDIA app and I had to manually add it, once I did it doesn't have any of the normal driver settings for the game like other games do, it's almost like it doesn't recognize it as a full game and isn't sure if the NVIDIA Control Panel settings will adhere to the game SKATE.

Wondering if we could figure this one out because I would hate to see a future Pro San Van Skater just give up because of this. :)

Love,

boneyardx0

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