How to fix boot crashes on Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC?
I was so hyped to finally play Valhalla, only for the loading bar to hit 50% and the whole PC to black screen and reboot. That excitement turned into pure rage instantly. The old drivers on my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti were having a massive synchronization conflict with the new ray-tracing instructions, causing the GPU to hit a dead loop in 0.1ms. I tried running it in compatibility mode, which let me reach the main menu, but the second I loaded the map, it crashed again—a useless band-aid fix. I used DDU for a clean wipe and installed the NVIDIA Studio Driver 560.94, then manually cleared 7.2GB of shader cache. In RTSS, the frame times tightened from a messy 25-40ms down to 14-18ms, and the stability is night and day. I did have to wait 45 minutes for the shaders to recompile after the driver swap, which was a test of patience. VRAM is now steady at 13.1-14.8GB and fans are at 1500-1700 RPM. 3DMark confirms no more rendering errors, and the GPU stays at 62-68℃.
