Random directx error crashes

[Demon_Giri]

You don't have to apologize, if it weren't for you I probably wouldn't have found the turbo mode on/off switch for another month or two. The fact that there's an actual chance of a light at the end of the tunnel is such a relief.

I did turn off Turbo mode mainly as a heavy handed find the source of the problem type move. It worked, but now I get ~45fps in populated areas and frontline. Still running way colder though, was peaceful without the fans going brrrrrrrr 100% of the time. Turning turbo back on and changing the voltage in XTU was going to be my next test if I didn't hear back, so good to see I was heading the right direction.

If you don't hear from me for a bit, no news is good news. I'll definitely update here and the reddit post with results, especially if sharing this info helps even one other person with this issue.

Edit: welp, immediate results of still crashing the game. Same call stacks. Tried lowering the wattage to 150 in XTU and logging back into the Frontline I was in. Game crashed a second time, so two crashes within a 15 min match. Temps were still roughly what they were from before today's testing, peaking around 93C and fans going full blast even when not near large groups. I know undervolting too much can cause damage if it goes too low, but is there a good place to start with limiting the wattage further?

Don't confuse turbo power limiting with undervolting here.

Turbo power limits just say that when the cpu goes into turbo, it can't draw more than a certain wattage

Undervolting actually reduces how much power you're giving the cpu at all times

When UNDERVOLTING, you'd want to make extremely small adjustments (in volts), but the wattage change you made on the power limit honestly isn't huge.

Intel's official specs for your processor are:
Processor base power: 55w
Maximum turbo power: 157w

With the i7-14700k as an example, people usually recommend power limiting that one for exactly what Intel's specs on it are, which is 125w and 253w respectively, so let's just try setting yours the same way.

This would be 157w (or you can leave this at 150 if you want) for your short duration, and 55w for the long duration.

55w is the wattage for base frequency, so this will probably keep it from running at turbo speeds over long periods of time. If your performance is noticeably worse with this but you're not crashing anymore, you might be able to play with slowly raising it back up little by little until you find a sweet spot.