Why does Avowed crash during Boss fights on the RTX 5070 Ti?
Right as the boss fight peaks, the game just vanishes to the desktop, which makes the experience feel totally fragmented. This Gainward card has a high factory clock, but above 3.0GHz, the VRAM voltage dips by 0.05V between 1.35V and 1.40V, causing the controller to trip on complex shaders. I tried underclocking the core to 2500MHz, which stopped the crashes, but my 1% lows dropped from 55 to 42 FPS—too much of a performance hit. I eventually used the driver panel to lock the memory voltage at 1.42V and added a +0.02V offset to the core. After four straight hours of stress testing, the hourly crashes completely stopped. I did hit 88℃ on the VRAM initially, but a better case fan curve brought it down to 78-83℃. GPU core is 65-71℃. VRAM read/writes are now perfectly synced.
