How to fix the driver timeout crash on Gainward RTX 2060 in Nioh 2?
It's honestly ridiculous that this game just crashes before hitting the main menu on the latest drivers. Checking the system logs, the GPU was hitting a TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) trigger while compiling initial shaders, which forced the driver to restart. I wasted a huge amount of time reinstalling the game, which did absolutely nothing—total waste of an afternoon. I eventually went into the Registry and bumped the 'TdrDelay' value from the default 2 seconds up to 8 seconds, and updated to the most stable driver version. After a reboot, the game finally loaded into the menu, and the load time actually dropped from 50 seconds to 18 seconds. I did notice that after increasing the delay, the system doesn't restart the driver immediately during a crash but instead hangs on a black screen for a bit, which I fixed by tweaking the power management settings. GPU temps are chill at 45-50°C. I've exported the registry keys as a backup just in case.
