Why does my A320M-HDV crash in dense areas of Night City?
Every time I entered a neon-heavy district, the game would just vanish to the desktop without a word. It's the kind of instability that makes you want to uninstall everything. GPU-Z revealed the PCIe link was glitching, flipping between 3.0 x16 and 3.0 x8, creating massive data delays of 12 - 25ms. I tried lowering the graphics settings, but the image became a grainy mess, which was a total dealbreaker. I flashed the latest 1.15 firmware from ASRock and forced the PCIe speed to Gen3 in the BIOS instead of leaving it on 'Auto.' After the change, the link stayed locked at x16, and I didn't see a single crash in three hours of play. There was a weird side effect where my USB ports stopped working after the update, but a BIOS reset followed by re-applying the Gen3 setting fixed it. VRM temps are sitting at 62 - 68℃ with fans at 1700 - 2000 RPM. 3DMark stress tests passed, and the input lag is finally gone; it feels snappy now.
