Windows 10: Display crashes early into game startup.

I've been playing a lot of Baldurs Gate 3 lately. For the first week, it worked great with no issues. Now, the game will only load for about two minutes before my display goes black and my monitor says "NO SIGNAL". I have to restart my PC manually every time. I tried simply rebooting the display via w+ctrl+shift+b, but it did nothing.I tested a couple other graphically intensive games, and the same thing happened, so I doubt it's an issue exclusive to the game, but anything's possible. Also worth noting; I tried a very low-poly game from ~2002 and it runs for hours with no issue. I've run th

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all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

all games crash!

ive watch my temps and both the cpu and gpu are within normal ranges. when it freezes it simply freezes the image and stops the sound. i must reboot to get back to windows.

 

All games crash silently when changing screen resolution/display mode!

Hi Peter,

Welcome to Microsoft community and thank you for posting your query.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. Let me help you to fix the issue.

To assist you better, I would like to know what are the game that is crashing?

Let’s try simple troubleshooting steps and check if this helps in resolving the issue. Follow the below methods.

Method 1.

I suggest you to uninstall and reinstall the game and check.

• 
  Press Windows key + X and select Control panel.
  
• Click on Program and features, locate for the game, right click on it and uninstall it.

If the issue still persist, try the below method.

Method 2.

I recommend you to uninstall/reinstall the display adapter driver and check. Follow the below steps:

• 
  Press Windows key + X and click on
  Device manager.
  
• 
  Locate for display adapter and click on it to expand.
  
• 
  Right click on the device and click on
  uninstall.
  
• 
  Once you are done uninstalling the driver, restart the computer. It will automatically install the generic display adapter driver.
  

If this doesn’t help to fix the issue. I suggest you to update the display adapter driver. Skip step3 from the above steps and right click on the
device and click on update.

Method 3.

I would suggest you to go to the below link, select appropriate Windows operating system, download the driver and install the same.

STRIX-GTX960-DC2OC-2GD5 - Support

Hope it helps. Keep posting us with the status we will be glad to help you.