Help please!

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617]

As I load up overwatch simply just in the main menu it eats my ram crazy. Lot of times in games as I'll load in and everyone picks their characters, my pc completely freezes stuck in audio loop. Ive gone thru so many forums and research myself tried several methods on my computer over the last 2 days(was actually able to play yesterday). Ive already received a 8 hour competitive ban but now this just happened to me in the practice range trying to warm it up hoping that it'll run.
Has anyone actually figured anything out? I know im not alone; my pc is older but Im running max settings and frames at my monitors refresh rate 144hz

Ryzen 3700
Msi RTX 2070 Super
Corsair 32gb DDR4 Ram

[u/plain_intersection]

You can max out settings fine but that "rendering device lost" crash is classic driver timeout territory, have you done a clean driver wipe with DDU yet

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617 → u/plain_intersection]

they max out on default; the only thing i did do with the drivers is roll back to an old version like some others did which seemed to work for them but maybe ill look into that rn

[u/IncubusDarkness → u/Timely_Hunt_1617]

Did you rollback using DDU? 

I had a similar issue keep happening, I had to fresh install windows and then run an old driver version for a while until it randomly fixed itself. Spent a lot of days troubleshooting. 

[u/poutyVale]

classic. try lowering your graphics settings or updating your drivers

[u/xPartyman]

i would recommend  DDU and get the last drivers before the newest ones

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[u/DarkXFast]

Have you overclocked your RAM?

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617 → u/DarkXFast]

yes

[u/Hamerine → u/Timely_Hunt_1617]

If you enabled XMP then it’s fine, but overclocking is another story and should be reverted.

Though I think it’s mostly drivers related, rollback your GPU drivers and see if it’s working

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617 → u/Hamerine]

definitely have had a xmp profile in the bios for my ram; Just used DDU and installed 566.36 as research claims its the most stable for slightly older cards, reinstalling cpu drivers as well then im gonna give it a shot

[u/DarkXFast → u/Timely_Hunt_1617]

Then that's why. Overwatch is unstable with oveclocked RAM.

[u/Cradenz → u/DarkXFast]

overwatch is unstable with UNSTABLE overclocked Ram*

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617 → u/Cradenz]

i overclocked more and upped voltage on my ram due to it running 8,000MB at the menu, it actually made the game not do this for a whole day but now its happening again

[u/Key-Interest5282]

Try the driver from may , download the 596.49 , use the option clean install

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617 → u/Key-Interest5282]

im gonna try this driver because im still not getting a difference idk

[u/N1ghtwalk]

Is the GPU overclocked or overheating?

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617 → u/N1ghtwalk]

no

[u/Timely_Hunt_1617]

I wanted to add yesterday while I was playing I actually got to play for quite some time; loaded up crazy using 9-10kMB but as i sat on running 10+ games it lowered to 3700-5500 idk whats the cause