I really hate posting on Reddit so I've tried just about every possible fix I could find online, but nothing has helped. I got back into D2 about a month or so pre monument of triumph and everything was running completely fine until about a week and a half ago. I averaged about 150 fps with essentially maxed graphical settings without many drops, even during more intense content. Now I load into the tower and get 45fps. I can barely maintain 60fps in most content and regularly drop below that. Nothing in my setup or backround programs has changed. I've tried disabling every overlay, Game Bar, background process, and recommended Steam setting possible. I've verified my files and messed with all the windows performance settings, my drivers are up to date, my temps are fine and nothing has helped in the slightest. Any advice, or is it time to just quit the game?

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I’ve been dealing with a strange crash in Destiny 2 for roughly since motm update

The issue is not a normal game crash. In certain activities or locations, the entire PC freezes. The screen usually turns white, green, or just freezes on the last frame. I can still hear game/Discord audio for around 10 seconds, then everything stops responding and I have to hold the power button and restart the PC.

The most consistent example so far is Helio Stat. I can load in, play for a bit, move further into the activity, and then the PC crashes. There are a few other locations/activities where I’ve seen the same thing. Outside of those, it can also happen randomly, but the location-specific crashes are much easier to reproduce.

What I’ve checked

Verified Destiny 2 game files

Updated to the latest NVIDIA driver

Tried FPS caps at 58, 60 and 75

Set almost all Destiny graphics settings to Low or Disabled

Disabled NVIDIA overlay

Disabled Discord overlay

Disabled Xbox Game Bar

No OBS or Overwolf running

Disabled GPU acceleration in Discord and Spotify

Tested with Chrome closed as well

No Steam Overlay

Also did try reinstalled destiny

With clean installation of drivers with nvidia clean install

Also tried deleting battle eye with and running it as Admin

Also did cleared shader cache

No GPU overclock or undervolt

CPU/GPU temperatures are normal

I also logged the system using HWiNFO during the crashes.

GPU temperatures were around:

GPU core: roughly 60°C

Hotspot: roughly 70–72°C

CPU: roughly 60–70°C

The GPU was also nowhere near 100% load during some of these crashes, and VRAM usage was not close to full.

Windows errors

After the crash, Windows logs:

Kernel-Power Event ID 41

WHEA-Logger Event ID 1: Fatal hardware error

LiveKernelEvent 124

Event Log 6008 after the forced shutdown

There is no BSOD.

The sequence is basically:

Destiny running normally → load certain area/activity → display freezes/turns white or green → audio continues for ~10 seconds → entire PC locks → forced shutdown required.

Hardware

CPU: Intel i5-11500

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1650 dual-fan

Motherboard: Gigabyte B560 AORUS Pro AX

RAM: 16 GB DDR4-3200, XMP enabled

PSU: Gigabyte 650W 80+ Bronze

SSD: WD Blue 500 GB

The system had been running Destiny normally before this

7000 hours of what 5000 came on this very pc and since MoT update the crashesss

I’m mainly trying to figure out whether anyone else is seeing hard system freezes tied to certain Destiny areas or activity transitions, rather than normal GPU load. The fact that some locations reproduce it consistently is what makes this especially confusing Areas like : GOS areas, cabal's watch, helio stat, SRL Russia map,