GTA 5 Crashing online?
GTA 5 Crashing online?
Hi there. I've been having issues with GTA lately and experiencing crashes online. Recently, I tried overclocking but had to reset my BIOS back to defaults after several crashes. When it crashed due to an Overclocking (OC), the PC restarted normally, but now GTA just stops and doesn't respond. After force-closing the game, it works fine without any restarts. I haven't made any changes in the game settings or undone my previous OC yesterday, yet the crashes continue. In the event viewer, I see a fault with GTA5.exe (version 1.0.350.2) at timestamp 0x554348e6. The exception code is 0xc0000005, and it seems to be related to a specific fault offset. No obvious pattern was found—it happened randomly while I was online. Anyone have any ideas about what might be causing this? Thanks for your help, feel free to ask more details if you have them.
It's not a full crash but rather occasional disconnections. The hardware appears comparable, so a physical problem seems unlikely. The main variation is my GTA being stored on an SSD instead of a HDD, which might delay file access. It's probably a software-related issue with the game. Off topic: Go overclock! You have a high-end CPU cooler—use it to improve performance.
I spent over 15 hours online without any issues until after the OC. Still working on some experiments, but my chip seems to be failing—crashed at 4.4GHz with 1.265V, which isn’t good.
Have you explored stress test tools such as Intel BurnTest? It could indicate an issue with the overclock rather than a system-wide failure. But if the problem is limited to the game, the overclocking might not be the cause.
The game stopped working right after closing GTA 5, but that didn’t happen before the PC loaded in about five seconds. Changing the OC resolved the issue. Are patches for games automatically installed when you join Rockstar Social Club?
I completed a three-hour session today and everything went smoothly. It might have been an isolated incident, not something to worry about.