Rise of the Tomb Raider Crashing on medium settings on GTX 960?

[xdarre]

So I recently built my first PC and all went relatively smooth despite some minor setbacks.

I decided to test out Rise of the Tomb Raider, the included game with my GPU, and see how well it performs. The first 30 minutes on high settings on 1080p were a very nice and enjoyable experience. Then it suddenly crashes with an error message along the lines of "Rise of the Tomb Raider has stopped working, windows is looking for... blah blah"

I thought that maybe it was my drivers, but I realized my video drivers are updated. I load it all up thinking it was just a bug. About 20 minutes later, again it crashes. This time with a more comprehensive error message: "Display Adapters have stopped working" and "System ran out of resources". That 2nd message in particular gets me thinking especially since my system isn't that terrible.

i5-6600k
16gm DDR4 ram
GTX 960 2gb

I thought it was because I ran out of VRAM (2Gb) so I downgraded the graphics to medium but still on 1080p. This time it just closes on me during the loading screen, not even an error message.

I know ROTTR is a highly demanding game on VRAM from what I've read, but even on medium settings with no AA? Is my card defective? (As one of my friends might be suggesting) Is 2Gb just simply not enough? My friend suggested I post here so sorry if I don't know the format and way things work around here.

Thanks, and remember that any suggestions are helpful.

 

[ATi RaDEoN]

-Try performing a clean install of your graphics card drivers.
-You can even try reinstalling the game in case reinstalling the drivers don't work.
-Scan your PC for viruses, sometime bitcoin miners cause such type of problems.

And remember, when you reinstall your drivers, set power management for ROTTR to 'prefer maximum performance'.

 

[xdarre]

So I recently built my first PC and all went relatively smooth despite some minor setbacks.

I decided to test out Rise of the Tomb Raider, the included game with my GPU, and see how well it performs. The first 30 minutes on high settings on 1080p were a very nice and enjoyable experience. Then it suddenly crashes with an error message along the lines of "Rise of the Tomb Raider has stopped working, windows is looking for... blah blah"

I thought that maybe it was my drivers, but I realized my video drivers are updated. I load it all up thinking it was just a bug. About 20 minutes later, again it crashes. This time with a more comprehensive error message: "Display Adapters have stopped working" and "System ran out of resources". That 2nd message in particular gets me thinking especially since my system isn't that terrible.

i5-6600k
16gm DDR4 ram
GTX 960 2gb

I thought it was because I ran out of VRAM (2Gb) so I downgraded the graphics to medium but still on 1080p. This time it just closes on me during the loading screen, not even an error message.

I know ROTTR is a highly demanding game on VRAM from what I've read, but even on medium settings with no AA? Is my card defective? (As one of my friends might be suggesting) Is 2Gb just simply not enough? My friend suggested I post here so sorry if I don't know the format and way things work around here.

Thanks, and remember that any suggestions are helpful.

I totally forgot about this post until today lol sorry. But I realized that the problem wasn't my graphics card at all actually, it was actually my ram. One of my two 8gb sticks was defective. Returned it, got new one and all has been well since then; I also upgraded to a GTX 1070 since then as well. lol looking back now I'm realizing how cheap ram was back then. Got my 16 GB for less than $60 back then, today it's like $120 RIP.

 

[schaft]

I have finished ROTTR when I still using my old pc before it get upgraded. If I remember correctly it has i5-2320 3,5GHz, 2x4Gb ram, 480Gb OCZ arc 100 ssd, 2x R9-280 3Gb(but only 1 working for ROTTR). I remember playing it on ultra setting but reduced it to high setting in order to get better fps (i forgot the exact number fps, but it run smoothly).

Now, the same pc has degraded to my office, with 4x4Gb ram, 240 Gb PNY SSD, RX 480 4Gb. It can played all modern games at 1440x900 ultra setting and mostly 55+ fps.

In my experience, I have had similar problem as you have. I have tried everything to fix it, but a problem solve only to cause another new problems.
In the end I just reinstall new win 10 into it, and all the problem just gone. I would blame some unwanted program installed from whatever free software I have installed. This happen to both of my pc (home and office). Reinstall new window, use a good free anti virus and malware, careful installing unknown software. Thats what I am doing now.

 

[xdarre]

I have finished ROTTR when I still using my old pc before it get upgraded. If I remember correctly it has i5-2320 3,5GHz, 2x4Gb ram, 480Gb OCZ arc 100 ssd, 2x R9-280 3Gb(but only 1 working for ROTTR). I remember playing it on ultra setting but reduced it to high setting in order to get better fps (i forgot the exact number fps, but it run smoothly).

Now, the same pc has degraded to my office, with 4x4Gb ram, 240 Gb PNY SSD, RX 480 4Gb. It can played all modern games at 1440x900 ultra setting and mostly 55+ fps.

In my experience, I have had similar problem as you have. I have tried everything to fix it, but a problem solve only to cause another new problems.
In the end I just reinstall new win 10 into it, and all the problem just gone. I would blame some unwanted program installed from whatever free software I have installed. This happen to both of my pc (home and office). Reinstall new window, use a good free anti virus and malware, careful installing unknown software. Thats what I am doing now.

Ahh, yeah gotta be careful when installing stuff. I never considered that to be my issue though since I had just built my PC at the time and had pretty much no software on it except for steam. But even today I don't have an anti-virus, I just try to be careful and it's worked so far. This is an old post though lol, almost 14 months ago, I've since upgraded my PC and solved my issue, it turned out to be just a defective RAM stick.

 

[schaft]

I have finished ROTTR when I still using my old pc before it get upgraded. If I remember correctly it has i5-2320 3,5GHz, 2x4Gb ram, 480Gb OCZ arc 100 ssd, 2x R9-280 3Gb(but only 1 working for ROTTR). I remember playing it on ultra setting but reduced it to high setting in order to get better fps (i forgot the exact number fps, but it run smoothly).

Now, the same pc has degraded to my office, with 4x4Gb ram, 240 Gb PNY SSD, RX 480 4Gb. It can played all modern games at 1440x900 ultra setting and mostly 55+ fps.

In my experience, I have had similar problem as you have. I have tried everything to fix it, but a problem solve only to cause another new problems.
In the end I just reinstall new win 10 into it, and all the problem just gone. I would blame some unwanted program installed from whatever free software I have installed. This happen to both of my pc (home and office). Reinstall new window, use a good free anti virus and malware, careful installing unknown software. Thats what I am doing now.

Ahh, yeah gotta be careful when installing stuff. I never considered that to be my issue though since I had just built my PC at the time and had pretty much no software on it except for steam. But even today I don't have an anti-virus, I just try to be careful and it's worked so far. This is an old post though lol, almost 14 months ago, I've since upgraded my PC and solved my issue, it turned out to be just a defective RAM stick.

good thing all went well.