Why does Dead Space 2 Remake crash on my Gainward RTX 5070 Ti?
Every time I entered a corridor with heavy metallic reflections, the game would just vanish to the desktop. It's a total mood-killer. With Path Tracing maxed out, the Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC hits peak VRAM usage of 15.8GB, causing temporary data to overflow into system RAM, which triggers a massive 1.2-2.5s stutter before the crash. I tried lowering shadow quality, but it looked terrible and still crashed—I was actually getting excited to try a deeper memory fix. I manually locked my Windows virtual memory to 32GB and capped the frame rate at 60 FPS in the driver to reduce the instantaneous VRAM throughput pressure. Checking Event Viewer, the recurring 0x11 error codes completely disappeared, and I've now played for 10 hours straight without a single crash. The frame cap added a tiny bit of input lag, but enabling NVIDIA Reflex solved that. Core temps are holding steady at 64-70℃.
