Random crashes when farming Open World, Teleporting to any town and salvaging items with the Blacksmith, viewing Stash, etc. D4 will always crash to desktop with the option to tell Blizz what U were doing when the crash occurred.
Noticed that when D4 crashed, around the same time, there was a GPU max spike in Performance viewer.
After days of troubleshooting and researching, I think I found a workaround solution that so far, works.
I looked at Event Viewer to see what error was being thrown associated to Nvidia graphics and when D4 crashed (with the GPU spike). There was a mysterious error related to “Event ID 0 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found”. I googled that and found this helpful thread. It is related to the Nvidia driver.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/game-crash-with-the-description-for-event-id-0/ea15380b-4423-49a1-862f-d4231b1ae85d
Clean reinstall of the Nvidia driver or even regressing to one from Aug didn’t work.
What caught my eye was Zoltan Kurtos’ comment about Factory Over Clocked GPU. My 1080ti was overclocked like that.
He mentioned that “ever since one of the driver/windows updates, most games are unable to handle Factory OC cards and will crash after a while.”
His process workaround was (and I quote him):
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Open the Nvidia control panel (usually located next to the clock in your system tray, bottom right)
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Click “Help” in the top row and click “Debug mode”
What this does, it downclocks your card to the founder’s edition specs. You would have to enable this every time after a reboot.
Hope this helps anyone with a Factory OC Nvidia card that is experiencing random GPU spikes causing random game crashes with newer Nvidia drivers.