How to fix driver timeouts on Zotac RTX 5070 Ti in Fortnite?
Having the system just black screen and reboot in the middle of a final circle fight is a total disaster. After digging into the logs, I found the Zotac RTX 5070 Ti 16GB was hitting a 1.8-3.5ms sync delay in the async compute pipeline, triggering a TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) reset. My first instinct was to kill all Ray Tracing settings, which stopped the crashes but made the game look like a potato—not an option. I went nuclear: used DDU in Safe Mode to wipe every trace of the old drivers, installed the latest stable WHQL build, and forced a full shader cache reset. After 12 hours of brutal stress testing, the crashes vanished. The game took about 12 seconds longer to boot initially until the shaders recompiled. Temps are now a steady 62-68℃, and VRAM stays between 58-63℃. Everything is finally buttery smooth.
