Game Crashes and Freezes (forcing shutdown of PC) shortly after startup

Community Technical Support Crashes, Connection, Update Problems & Advice
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I’ve been trying just about everything I know. I cleared my cache, I ran the memory diagnostic, tried the lowest graphics settings possible (which wouldn’t make sense anyway because my specs are more than sufficient), and more. I uninstalled, reinstalled, verified files, anything to see if it would work, but it doesn’t. It also never generates crash logs because the only times it doesn’t force me to shut down my PC is when it says FATAL ERROR or something like that. What’s weird is that everything was fine in late October, when I built my PC, but I started having issues toward the end of October and into November. I suspect that it may be caused by a newer Windows update or graphics driver but I don’t know how to tell or what to do in the case that it is.

Main Specs:
GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5800X
RAM: 32GB (Two 16 channels)
Motherboard: AORUS ELITE B550M
OS: Windows 11 (latest version as of 11/20/23 2:30 UTC)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If any more details are needed please ask.

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lots of people having problems with new nvidia graphics driver, try rolling it back

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Tried rolling back to the previous driver just now and it didn’t do much. Is there a certain version that I should use?

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Just updated to a version from about a month ago when it worked well and it seems to be fine, but I’ll continue to give updates.

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It crashed again, but this time, I was able to play for maybe 10 or 15 minutes. Also, it didn’t force me to shut down my PC this time. Are there any other possible solutions? @ItsBedTime

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Nope, it’s happening again. Same thing, it just freezes. Even on ULQ it freezes. If there’s anything else I can try, please let me know. I do use the Steam version, so if that’s the issue I’ll certainly try to get around that.

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Works after I reinstalled. Not sure what happened, maybe I just had a bad installation. Even on the new NVIDIA driver it worked, so I guess it’s resolved. What to make of this?

Try the simplest solutions first, because it may just be the simplest problem.