Thanks for the input.

I have left all of the motherboard settings as they were out of the box. This machine was built to run DT, and it ran perfectly from release until mid February. The more I get into this, the more it seems to me there is some glitch with the gfx updates made to the game. Nothing else crashes, and I have some other intense games. I have 14700k mainly since I got it for only 10 bucks more than the non-k variant, so it was a steal, but I don't like over/underclocking as it can seriously shorten the life of the CPU. I let the auto clock thing do its thing as that doesn't void warranties.

Right now, I'm running some test sessions on the new 7.2 update, and a few other things, and hopefully SE will stop procrastinating and at least acknowledge this thread and all the information posted in it. Not getting my hopes up though.

I also can hear the fans spin up if I'm in areas that have the new gfx updates or large population areas, which makes sense given the increased amount of information that has to be tracked.

Also just in general to all, is there some reason why although I have this thread set to notify me when it is responded to that it doesn't? I have it sett o, and I know SE has the correct email address, but I never get any notification of replies.