How to solve Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti driver crashes in Far Cry 6?
While trekking through the jungle, the game would just vanish and dump me back to the desktop with zero error messages. VRAM usage on the Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti 16G was only around 7-9GB, but the driver was hitting TDR timeouts when calling specific shaders. I tried lowering the lighting quality, but the crashes happened in the exact same spots, which made this bug a real nightmare to pin down. I eventually used DDU in Safe Mode to wipe every trace of NVIDIA and did a clean install of a community-verified stable driver, then manually nuked 3.1GB of shader cache. In Event Viewer, the frequent 4101 error codes finally stopped, and I managed 5 hours of gameplay without a single crash. The game took about 20 seconds longer to boot after the wipe because it had to recompile shaders, but it was worth it. GPU temps are now a steady 64-70℃ with fans at 1400RPM.
