Is a black screen crashing in Oblivion Remastered? Does stopping the Core Performance Boost fix the problem?
Is a black screen crashing in Oblivion Remastered? Does stopping the Core Performance Boost fix the problem?
I have been playing the newly released Oblivion Remastered game for some time, but in the open world I have frequent crashes. Currently I have a savefile, where upon using a magic ability "Night Eye" it nearly always instantly crashes. This has given me an opportunity to find the root cause of the issue. When the game crashes, it gives a black screen, monitor signal lost, USB devices are also off, computer fans stay on. Only a reset helps. PC Specs Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC GPU: 6900XT CPU: Ryzen 5800X RAM: 2 x 16GB Kingston HyperX Predator 3600MHz What I tried to remedy the issue : - Install latest AMD driver (using DDU in safe mode to uninstall previous driver) - Update BIOS to latest version - Disable XMP profile - Undervolt GPU (For some time, this seemed to give greater stability, but the above mentioned save file still crashes it - Underpower GPU (-10% power) - Turn off all AMD functions in Adrenalin - Turn off CPU settings: SVM / Core Performance Boost / Precision Boost Overdrive Only the last one solves the crash. I then tried to turn on SVM (still runs well), but when turning CPB back on, the crashes happen again. I then tried running the PBO settings in ECO mode and also (separately) to set Voltage +10 in curve optimizer. Both options do not work. When stress testing the CPU / GPU in OCCT, nothing happens (on standard bios settings). Currently Oblivion Remastered is the only game that gives this specific crash, but the fact that it can be solved by turning off core performance boost does seem to me that it is still a hardware related fault. Obviously turning off CPB is not a real solution, since it makes the CPU significantly underperfom. Any ideas what I could do to get to a better solution? I don't believe this is power / temperature related, since undervolting / underpowering GPU and underpowering the CPU (PBO eco mode) do not solve the issue. Hope to hear your thoughts!
Overdrive is basically forcing the CPU faster than designed, so adding CPB likely pushes that too far and causes crashes. If oblivion remastered works just like the original game (using one core at a time), then forcing that single core to the limit makes sense because it might crash when all cores are pushed hard. But if you use CPB while PBO is turned off, does it still cause issues?
I turned off SVM, CPB, and PBO. That fixed the problem. But when I turned on SVM, everything crashed again. So PBO is still turned off.