Question Why is Overwatch crashing?

[hussam786]

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So, I manually overclocked my GPU (2080 TI) to 179 MHz core clock and 573 MHz memory clock, and I stress tested it using the Heaven Benchmark with no crashes or jitters or anything. I played with it the last month or so, but overwatch has crashed on my 3 or 4 times while streaming off the GPU, and it gives me a notification that says that it notices that my GPU is overclocked and to revert it to factory settings for more stability. So, I redid the overclock, and got pretty much the same results, but this time I stress tested it using furmark (4k uhd and 1080p settings), MSI kombustor (4k/1080p settings), and the heaven benchmark with no artifacting or crashes. Can someone tell me why these stress tests with full anti aliasing and everything are not crashing, but streaming overwatch while playing on all low settings and 75% render is causing Overwatch to crash ? (btw my stream doesn't crash just Overwatch does)

 

[LordVile]

For reference, this is my parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kPyMn7
So, I manually overclocked my GPU (2080 TI) to 179 MHz core clock and 573 MHz memory clock, and I stress tested it using the Heaven Benchmark with no crashes or jitters or anything. I played with it the last month or so, but overwatch has crashed on my 3 or 4 times while streaming off the GPU, and it gives me a notification that says that it notices that my GPU is overclocked and to revert it to factory settings for more stability. So, I redid the overclock, and got pretty much the same results, but this time I stress tested it using furmark (4k uhd and 1080p settings), MSI kombustor (4k/1080p settings), and the heaven benchmark with no artifacting or crashes. Can someone tell me why these stress tests with full anti aliasing and everything are not crashing, but streaming overwatch while playing on all low settings and 75% render is causing Overwatch to crash ? (btw my stream doesn't crash just Overwatch does)

Have you tried streaming on the CPU? Overwatch might just not like people streaming on the GPU.

 

[hussam786]

Have you tried streaming on the CPU? Overwatch might just not like people streaming on the GPU.

I get significantly worse frames and stuff streaming on the CPU. Also, most streamers I know use the GPU if they have an RTX card

 

[LordVile]

I get significantly worse frames and stuff streaming on the CPU. Also, most streamers I know use the GPU if they have an RTX card

Hardware or software?

 

[hussam786]

Hardware or software?

What do you mean?

 

[LordVile]

What do you mean?

Well are you using a hardware solution to stream like NVENC or a software solution like OBS?

 

[j3ster]

ive tested this just now and streamed via Nvenc and Software (via OBS studio and Streamlabs) with overwatch and destiny 2.

i dont get a crash or bad frames either way, maybe theres something else thats going on .

 

[Karadjgne]

OC is always iffy. You can have an OC that's 99.99% stable, run every test on the book, punish the component beyond all reasonable expectations, and crash when websurfing.

There's something in OW that's finding that 0.01% instability. Could be you only need drop the OC a few Hz on the clock or memory, and it's resolved. Could be add 0.01mv and be resolved. Could be needs a change in ram speeds, software switches, power phases, vpower phases, could be one or several combinations of multiple things.

 

[Ketchup79]

What was the stock boost clock on your card? I can only hope you were leaving out a zero in your original post. Are you overclocking your CPU also?

 

[hussam786]

Well are you using a hardware solution to stream like NVENC or a software solution like OBS?

I'm using OBS live, and the NVENC H.264 (new option)

 

[hussam786]

ive tested this just now and streamed via Nvenc and Software (via OBS studio and Streamlabs) with overwatch and destiny 2.

i dont get a crash or bad frames either way, maybe theres something else thats going on .

I get worse frames streaming off the CPU in overwatch, but I get better frames and less stream lag streaming off the CPU in borderlands 3 so idk

 

[hussam786]

OC is always iffy. You can have an OC that's 99.99% stable, run every test on the book, punish the component beyond all reasonable expectations, and crash when websurfing.

There's something in OW that's finding that 0.01% instability. Could be you only need drop the OC a few Hz on the clock or memory, and it's resolved. Could be add 0.01mv and be resolved. Could be needs a change in ram speeds, software switches, power phases, vpower phases, could be one or several combinations of multiple things.

any way to narrow down those possibilities?

 

[hussam786]

What was the stock boost clock on your card? I can only hope you were leaving out a zero in your original post. Are you overclocking your CPU also?

The numbers I put in the original post are just the numbers I punched in when changing the settings. My bad I should've been more specific. The stock memory clock is 7000 MHz, and the stock core clock is 1125 MHz. My overclock brings the memory clock to 7573 MHz, and the core clock to 1290 MHz. Also, yes I'm overclocking my CPU from 3.6 GHz to 5.0 GHz. You can see all my CPU settings in my other forum post.

 

[Ketchup79]

Ok. First off, put you CPU and video card back to stock frequency as a test. Play Overwatch, and, if there is a crash, tell us exactly what happened.