How to fix render pipeline crashes on RTX 5080 in Stalker 2?
It's absolutely ridiculous. I bought a top-of-the-line 5080, and I'm still crashing to desktop while walking through the ruins of Chernobyl. The Manli Snow Fox GeForce RTX 5080 OC 16GB had a massive compatibility clash with the latest driver's render pipeline, causing frame times to jump from 7ms to 120ms right before the crash. I tried installing Windows updates to fix it, but that just slowed down my boot time by 5 seconds and did nothing for the crashes—totally pointless. I used DDU to wipe everything and rolled back to a stable driver from three versions ago, and disabled the driver overlay. In RTSS, the frame times returned to a healthy 6-11ms range, and the crashes vanished. I did lose about 4 FPS at 4K after the rollback, but that's a tiny price to pay for a game that actually stays open. GPU core temps are now 62-68℃, and the system image tool confirms a steady 65-69℃. Just avoid the latest driver for now.
