technodude9000
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For a while now the game has been crashing for me when the startup movie plays. It causes some crazy loud coil whine on my GPU and then the whole computer just blacks out - not bluescreen but like monitors go black, fans turn off, the works. I have to turn it off at the PSU to get it to reboot.
If I boot up with the startup movie disabled (the `-novid` launch option), things work just fine and the game still runs great. I think I've only had one single crash outside of the startup movie in the ~200 hours I've played. I booted up a hardware monitor to watch what was happening during the boot and it seems like the GPU power usage spikes hard right when the movie begins to play. usually I hear the opening *click* sound effect in the movie and the first note or two of music and then it all blacks out.
It's possible this is a power supply issue seeing as the start of the problem coincided with upgrading my GPU from a 2080 to a 7900XTX, but it still seems weird to me that disabling the startup movie fixes the issue at all. I have a beefier power supply backordered so I'll update this thread if the power supply bump lets me play the startup movie again, but I would be curious if anyone else has run into a similar crash.
If I boot up with the startup movie disabled (the `-novid` launch option), things work just fine and the game still runs great. I think I've only had one single crash outside of the startup movie in the ~200 hours I've played. I booted up a hardware monitor to watch what was happening during the boot and it seems like the GPU power usage spikes hard right when the movie begins to play. usually I hear the opening *click* sound effect in the movie and the first note or two of music and then it all blacks out.
It's possible this is a power supply issue seeing as the start of the problem coincided with upgrading my GPU from a 2080 to a 7900XTX, but it still seems weird to me that disabling the startup movie fixes the issue at all. I have a beefier power supply backordered so I'll update this thread if the power supply bump lets me play the startup movie again, but I would be curious if anyone else has run into a similar crash.