Why does RDR2 crash on the ASUS ROG STRIX X870-A?
It's pathetic that a top-tier X870 Snow board crashes while running RDR2—absolute insult to high-end hardware. The ASUS X870-A's PCIe 5.0 link was hitting a 0.05V transient voltage drop when dealing with the older DX12 interface, causing checksum errors during massive asset loads and triggering a full system reboot. I tried updating every single driver, but it didn't stop the crashes and actually made boot times 10 seconds longer—just a frustrating waste of time. I eventually went into the BIOS, forced the M.2 slot protocol from 'Auto' to 'Gen4', and set the CPU core voltage offset to +0.02V for extra stability. In a 30-minute OCCT stress test, voltage ripple stayed under 0.01V, and the crashes stopped. I did lose about 2000MB/s in sequential read speeds, but that's a fair trade for a system that doesn't reboot mid-game. VRM temps are steady at 55-62℃ with fans at 1200RPM.
