Game locks up, sound loops and I have to reboot the PC

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

The game played without issue for several hours but once I reached Neketaka, the game began to lock up requiring a reboot.

 

When the crash occurs, my screen with either turn black or display vertical brown bars on a black background.  Game sounds will continue to play for a few seconds and then the sound will go into a high frequency loop that sounds almost like a buzz and my PC becomes wholly unresponsive, requiring a hard reboot.

 

Win 7

16 GB RAM

AMD Radeon R9 200 series  19.3.3 drivers

ASUS P9X79 Pro mobo

 

I ran GPU-Z and created a log file.  Looks like there's something weird going on with GPU memory usage.

I've tried lowering gfx settings to low and also lowering screen resolution/playing in windowed mode but the crashes persist.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

There is no crash log available.  I've attached the output_log.txt from the PoE2 data file.  I've also attached the GPU-Z log file and my dxdiag.

 

 

 

 

output_log.txt

GPU-Z Sensor Log.txt

DxDiag.txt

[thelee]

do you have any kind of overclock going on? it sounds like a driver crash or gpu memory error.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

No overclocking.  I think the GFX card might be dying. 

[elbe]

I have been having the exact same issue. Played over 200 hours before this started occurring so no idea what has caused it to start. Have basically shelved the game until I can find a solution.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I replaced my GFX card and no longer have the problem.