Is the Galax B760M D4 PCIe bandwidth causing Deathloop crashes?
Every time I hit a new loop phase, the game would just vanish and dump me back to the desktop without a single error message. It was incredibly frustrating. Using GPU-Z, I caught the PCIe link flipping erratically between 4.0 x16 and 4.0 x8, causing massive data transmission delays of 15-28ms. I tried lowering the graphics settings, which reduced the crash frequency but made the game look like a blurry mess, which was a complete non-starter for me. I ended up flashing the official Galax firmware version 1.18 and forced the PCIe speed to 'Gen4' instead of 'Auto' in the BIOS. In follow-up tests, the link stayed locked at x16, and I didn't see a single crash over four hours of gameplay. Weirdly, the firmware update broke my audio jack recognition at first, but a BIOS reset followed by re-applying the PCIe Gen4 setting fixed it. VRM temps are now 60-66℃ with fans at 1700-2000 RPM. 3DMark stress tests passed, and the input lag is finally gone. It feels responsive again.
