Issue Description (Required):
now this probably isnt an issue for anyone but me, as im stuck with an old 500W psu running a 7 5800xt, hefty cooler, and rtx 2060, and i uncommonly get power spikes during play that just shut the computer off, HOWEVER, 9/10 times my computer shuts off from one of these spikes, it is in the masteries menu while im choosing blessings, i dont know why this is
Attempted Solutions (Optional):
N/A but will probably be fixed with a PSU upgrade
Platform (Required):
PC - Steam
[PC] PC Specifications (Optional):
ryzen 7 5800xt, rtx 2060, shitty AL-D500EXP 500W psu, 32gb ddr4
With uncapped frame rate. Going from mourningstar to Mastery menu the GPU power draw does shoot up, becomes like 300-350 FPS.
Just until your replacement PSU arrives you could try power limit your GPU to say 80%
i.e. using MSI afterburner, set to 80% then close MSI afterburner, so it doesn’t take up monitoring CPU cycles. It will set as 80% for rest of your windows session.
I think lowest you could go is 60% or 70%. Just until new PSU arrives.
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From what I can tell this is because the mastery menu is a different view/area(?) with less stuff loaded in.
I’ll bring up a different glitch to show what I mean.
I’ve complained before about the mipmap errors that sometimes happen on AMD GPUs, very noticeable on arbites with the red chest light leaking to the rest of the armor:
Getting your character (or whoever it happens to) out of view fixes this which is why I assume it’s a mipmap error. It doesn’t go away when looking at your loadout or cosmetics and it also doesn’t go away if you’re looking at your talents so I assume the talent screen is just a menu overlay. But it
does go away if I look at the masteries menu.
A view of a small area with little waiting for loading or culling to do just lets your PC run faster and sip more power. Kinda like how your fps goes way higher in some games if you stare right up at the skybox.
If you have PBO on with a good cooler you’re probably letting the CPU pull more power than the PSU can handle. The 5800XT is a higher binned chip so you could try setting it to 65W eco mode in bios without losing much performance and see if your PC can handle it then.
That’s some mad visual glitch! But yeah someone else said same thing for his 9070XT and saw it mention for that GPU few times on reddit and this forum. Goes back months.
Yeah it’s like a lot of games, simple button menus, GPU renders without effort and will render x2, x3 etc faster.
Some games automatically cap your fps when you open menus.
@pebbletaro
I looked up your PSU. 18A 12V rail is 216W. That’s for CPU, GPU, Motherboard etc using that rail
You could just buy a Corsair 500W for 50 bucks and probably give you 450W on that rail. But later in future you might change to higher consumption CPU, GPU so you’ll want something more headroom. 750W, 850W etc. Corsair PSUs from my retailer 750W to 1000W it’s only like 30 bucks difference. All depends on your future plans, so you don’t end up having to buy new PSU on next build. Corsair PSU calculator online is decent without trying to upsell too much.
Fun fact, AMD Intel and Nvidia all mess sampler feedback up in some way which is why Proton just emulates it. It breaking for AMD in Darktide is probably just down to the Nvidia partnership and focusing on supporting their cards.
It’s been like that since they added Masteries to the game. Drawing way too much fing power for what its rendering.
I reported this many moons ago.
Well. Here we still are. I know. Shocking!
What someone could do:
Using RTSS setup hotkey to toggle FPS cap. Like using one of the Function keys on keyboard.
i.e. When I used to play Total war warhammer I would hotkey toggle FPS cap depending if I was in the turn based campaign map view clicking buttons vs real time battle map.
Arent the NVIDIA 20xx series notoriously overvolted anyway? Pretty sure the gigabyte’s 2070’s voltage is by default overclock ready and is actually above optimum
I guess all nvidia GPUs are to ensure silicon lottery all cards will reach advertised speeds, way over even to give room for silicon degradation over years which end up needing more voltage over time.
Still, i undervolted my 2070 down by 125 mV and still have overclock on it. Going down from 1.050 to 925 and thats a non trivial number and it does a LOT for the thermals.
From my point of view there is no such thing as a bad time to undervolt 2070’s from the default voltage 
You could try capping your frame rate before entering the menu. For me that drops my GPU wattage from about 300 watts to 150 watts when I cap mine at 120 FPS. Not a great solution but should help.
The easiest thing they could do is cap all of the menus at 60 FPS but this developer can’t even do that.
What else is new?
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