EFT keeps crashing entire computer requiring hard restart

February 24, 2021

This all started happening a couple weeks ago. Was playing with some friends and suddenly my entire computer froze during a raid. No key response, audio... nothing. Had to hard restart. Occasionally it would give me a bluescreen instead of locking up my pc. It would do this periodically maybe 1 or 2 times an hour. Two days later my OS M.2 drive bricked after getting a bluescreen playing the game with a complete loss of all data on the drive. (EFT and the launcher are not even on that drive). Not sure if the game caused this issue or not, just seemed suspicious. Anyhow, got a NVMe M.2 replacement and got everything back to operation. I tried playing the game today on a fresh windows install and all seemed to be well until as soon as I loaded in a quick bluescreen popped up and went away and my computer restarted. I loaded in again and blue screened again within 10 seconds of reconnecting, (The screen flashed so fast it did not load the errors or anything, just the face and the pc ran into a problem message.) And again after that... It got to a point to where I cannot even load into a game now and the game just locks up my computer while trying to load into a raid. With no key response, audio or anything at all. If I am quick enough and notice it freeze, I can switch to my other monitor and close the game with task manager but the computer is already locked up and needs a hard restart. I began looking at forums and after 3 hours of research and testing, nothing has worked.

This is all I have done below:

Fresh windows install, uninstalled and searched computer for any EFT files and reinstalled, RAM diagnostics, C++ downloads, driver easy update, disabled shadow play overlay, Increased virtual RAM, registry cleaner, deleted temp files, closed all programs but the game, ran as administrator, changed fullscreen optimization, disabled/ allowed EFT on antivirus software and windows defender, verified integrity, monitored usage in game on task manager and afterburner for the GPU/CPU/RAM, disabled overclocks and checked temps (I'm using AIO for CPU and G12 for my 1080 and temps on GPU are 64C and 48C for CPU)

The farthest I've gotten is I can get into an offline raid on factory and usually play for a few minutes, it locked up my pc once when I tried to change mouse sensitivity, once when I was running around, and once when I died.

I'm out of ideas and this is the last idea I had. I was already starting to get sick of this game with their terrible servers but now the whole game seems like just a overpriced and poorly developed dump

My build:

Asus GTX 1080, Ryzen 5 3600x, 16gb corsair vengeance 3500mhz, OS drive: Samsung 970 Evo plus, Game drive: Samsung 860 Evo 1tb, OS windows 10 pro, MB gigabyte aurous b450 elite, cooling: EVGA and corsair AIOs

February 24, 2021

+1
hard freezes in raids, no audio no video no response. hard reboot required. happens quite frequently (game is unplayable more or less). no idea what's causing this, comp seems fine with everything else in the digital universe. first thoughts were on overheating, but seems improbable atm.

specs: 32gb ram, intel 5930k @4.1Mhz, Samsung ssd in M2 slot, nvidia 1080ti