Consistent Crashing

[tired warren]

(copy pasted from tech-support, just in case it gets buried, it's easier to follow a thread if there's responses too)

ive had some really weird and sudden full unreal engine fatal errors, and was wondering if anyone had a similar system to mine to maybe help

game runs fine overall, but will suddenly hang and crash while hosting a server (still on the starting island)
one other player in the server, usually my CPU and GPU useage sits around 50% for both, and its taking less than half of my overall RAM, im not sure if its a drivers thing or what but atp I'm desperate for help and it won't stop crashing

CPU: Intel i5-13600K
RAM: 32gb ddr5 (not sure specifics)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

according to the R5 Log, the error is: [2026.04.16-02.02.09:786][914]LogD3D12RHI: Error: GPU Crashed or D3D Device Removed
I'm not quite sure why, and was just hoping someone had a fix

-# If relevant, all my settings are set as low as possible, framegen is on (have tried on and off)

I saw someone ask for a DxDiag in another thread, so I'll throw mine in here

26.3.1 for AMD drivers

[iron umbra]

@tired warren My logs displayed the same msg and i fixed it with the following:
1-Enabling V-sinc on the in-game settings
2-Locking the FPS in 60 on the in-game settings
3-Enabling "Radeon Enhanced Sync" on the Adrenalin App(Specifically this third step solved the problem, only the first 2 didn't)
Let me know if you tried and if it worked or not

[tired warren]

i'll give this a shot! it is currently off for me so lets give it a try

did you have framegen on or off? what variant? i currently have mine set to FSR - Ultra Performance - 2x - 44% Sharpness

my vsync and 60fps are already on

[iron umbra]

Upscaler - FSR
Upscaler Type - Performance
Frame Gen - Off

[tired warren]

bet, ty

ok as i was about to report that i did those changes and would test it

alt tab crashed the game

swapping to fullscreen instead of windowed fullscreen

was seeming fine, then after i went into the cave, got some copper, left, got a few steps then suddenly crashed

game is running smooth at 120 FPS otherwise

person im playing with thinks that them picking up an item might have caused it? they did pick something up right as i crashed twice now

they said theyre gonna try not to pick up anything and see how long it lasts

[iron umbra]

hmmm, i didn't try multiplayer yet, i was playing solo

[tired warren]

notably, they said doctor galen wasnt here before the crash and now he suddenly is

it did still randomly crash if they even just stood around, same Fatal Error in unreal engine

AMD is dubbing it a driver timeout, but im not sure what else i can do

[tired warren]

(I'll probably hold off on any more testing for a bit until anything new pops up, but for now the crashes remain constant. I haven't tried not being the server host or solo, but im not sure that would change much due to it seemingly being gpu related? Any suggestions are appreciated)

[tepid hill]

Forgot to leave a message - I've gathered your logs and sent them to tech team, we're looking into it

[tired warren]

Thanks a ton!

[tired warren]

Wanted to try the above since it worked for them, and it crashed with these options in less than 5 minutes still, here's the associated log

going to try without launch options and having someone else host instead, since I have always tried actively hosting for our group, will update

[tepid hill]

Oh, by the way, do you have any kind of "AMD Frame Gen" enabled by their software?

[tired warren]

I have tried in game frame gen, but opted to not use it after finding I run at 120 FPS without it. Other than that, everything in AMD is off

I did enable Enhanced Sync after a recommendation, but both with and without it it seems to crash

AMD settings

[tepid hill]

I see, then we still don't have a proper solution. We're looking for similar cases too to find any clues.

[tired warren]

I'll keep testing whatever I can throw at the wall! Love the game and wanna play it enough to keep testing

All my in game settings, for any potential help it may be

[tired warren]

It actually seemed to go a lot longer when I wasn't host, it only crashed after I started messing with graphics settings >_> (i wanted to see if i could make it look better without it crashing and uh, then it did)

Even without messing with settings this time, still eventually crashed while playing and not hosting. I did turn on framegen to not play at 60 fps, but it crashed with or without it on so I can confirm its not that. Gonna take a break from testing for now but hopefully somehow this helps

[opal osprey]

what is weard to me is that this started hapening after 2 days from lunch day befor that i had zero my self

[tired warren]

Reviving the dead just to poke around to see if anyone has had any updates regarding the crashes?

[normal kernel]

The crashes sadly no, but installing the 26.1.1-driver solved the timeout-issue for me. But it still crashes every 30-45 minutes (the well known "fatal error").

[tired warren]

👀 gonna check out this patch later today hopefully!

[whole scaffold]

Fatal error still occurs for myself randomly.

[normal kernel]

Same for me. Even the timeout-issue was back.

Here is the logfile of the last crash.

[tired warren]

Took less than 10 minutes, overall performance seems better post-patch, and I did get a sudden hang midway playing that I assumed was gonna be a crash but it didn't and kept on fine to my surprise (Usually, every hang it crashes)

buuuut just a bit later it goes away