RTX 5090 Astral crashing in every game

[Ion1002]

Hi all,

I just upgraded my system with a 5090 Astral and a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and my games keeps crashing within minutes after start.

I am currently running the latest Nvidia driver but also tried the old ones too and no luck.

Did forced PCIe slot to run on PCIe 4 instead of 5, disabled EXPO profile, disabling RE-Bar and everything but nothing seems to work.

I am thinking if this is a driver issue or I am just having a faulty GPU?

I would really appreciate your help. Thanks!

[PaulS-3]

I have the 5090 LC / Asus z790 (so its natively PCIe 4.0) / Intel i9 1300KS / Corsair 1200 RM shift, and have constant PC lock-ups in battlefield 2042, assassins creed and atomfall. can be 5 minutes or 60 minutes.

I get better stability, so more like the 60 minutes, by disabling frame rate cap, which I always had at 120 (240mhz screen). also tried without running GPU Tweak (was using it to make sure no power issues) and/or from the nVidia app power mode of prefer performance,  using game preferred DLSS or forcing 'latest' in every possible combination.

Post hang; sometimes needs power restart and sometimes works with just a reset. But random occurrences of the 5090 no longer remembering what LED settings were and its just black, also having the PC go straight to UEFI without being asked to and twice 'windows didn't load properly'. 

with the previous ASUS 4090 STRIX, no issues at all.

[Ion1002]

Hey @PaulS-3 

Somehow I fixed my issues loading the "optimized setting" in BIOS and after that everything just disappeared no crashes since yesterday.

If you have any CPU adjustments from BIOS do not try to modify anything before doing your tests. 

Hope this helps,

[Silent_Scone · Accepted solution]

As @Ion1002 says, test at Optimised Defaults to eliminate overclocking instability from CPU or memory overclocking. If the system is hanging at POST, it sounds like this is the likely culprit. 

[Ion1002]

@Silent_Scone That was my issue there. I got -30 curve on my 9800X3D, as soon as I disabled PBO and return cu stock fan curve everyhing is flawless. 

I heard that this is also the case with Intel CPU's, also limiting the boost clock with 0.1 Ghz can also help.

So maybe @PaulS-3 will take this in consideration and let us know if it fixes the issue.

[Mylittlepwny2]

I have the exact same issue with my 14900KS. I was playing total war warhammer 3 for about an hour last night after installing  my 5090. Everything was fine all of a sudden it froze and my computer bluescreened for half a second before shutting down. 

I rebooted and tried space marine 2, and it crashed instantly. I then set all my overclocks (which were fully stable when I was using my 4090) and set motherboard to defaults. The problem still persists. Immediate system crash. 

I tried several different drivers and used DDU all to no avail. I swapped my 4090 back into the system and its running just fine. Clearly the issue is with the 5090 itself. I even tried underclocking the GPU and it still instantly crashes.

The weird thing is, it runs benchmarks including 3dmark just fine. It only crashes when playing actual games. 

Im thinking its a driver issue, but maybe OP and I just got lemons? Idk ill send a ticket out to asus and see if they can be of any assistance. 

[Silent_Scone]

Hi @Mylittlepwny2 

What stop codes are you getting when the system crashes? BSOD's would still potentially indicate an issue on the CPU/Memory side.

[Mylittlepwny2]

It only bluescreened on the initial crash. The one that happened after about an hour. However it blackscreened so fast that I couldn't even read the error before the pc restarted. 

Since then as I said ive run the PC without any overclock at all. Ive tried multiple different drivers and used ddu to clean up the old ones. Ive put my old 4090 back in and the PC works perfectly again. 

As far as the crashes go, one time I was getting some artifacting on some certain textures in the game before it rebooted the machine. Every other time i just get a hard lock after about 20 seconds of gameplay. The whole system hard reboots about 5 seconds after the hardlock happens.

Its absolutely a problem with the GPU. Either a driver issue, or the card itself. I even tried underclocking the card to see if it was a boosting algorithm problem and it crashed just as quickly and predictably as before. 

I left a memory test (karhu) running over night after i gamed in my 4090 for a couple hours without any issue. Memory and cpu are 100% stable and are not the issue. 

[Silent_Scone]

Power limit the 5090 to roughly 500W and see if the crashing persists. I would agree that artifacting would indicate a possible problem with the GPU

[Mylittlepwny2]

So i tried the new driver today. Card still crashed after about 20 minutes of gameplay. I then set the power limit of the card down to 80% and played for about 45 minutes without a crash.... im now wondering if I just need to push for an RMA with ASUS.