I started at .ml and came here afterwards.

.ml is a bit better stability wise (though it also had worse days…) and on top of that they have a slur filter. So if someone calls you ‘bitch’ (‘bi.tch’) all you see is ‘removed’ on lemmy.ml. While the entire rest of the fediverse can read what I just wrote :-/

Ever thought it might be the game? Maybe the current GPU driver has a bug there?

I found a lot of issues with Snowrunner black screening on start. The fix here is to run it in fullscreen instead of borderless.

Can you try to play the game in fullscreen mode and see if it still crashes? If you use FreeSync it could be connected with that too.

Darn. Maybe try switching off “fast boot” for Windows and doing a proper restart? That option (which is on by default) broke my installation once. Also had crashes that I couldn’t fix, disabled that, restarted, problem solved.

And do sfc /scannow

It’s pretty fast and Windows usually finds borked files. Reinstalling Windows might be better, but it’s annoying.

Definitely try a BIOS update first, Ryzen did a massive amount of bug fixes and optimizations with each version. After the BIOS update also make sure to get the current chipset drivers from AMD!

But be very careful when selecting your BIOS update, there might be later versions where they removed support for older Ryzen CPUs (as space is limited). So check the notes if they say anything like “removed support for Ryzen 2000 series”, but I think B450 should be safe for your CPU.

If your PSU is broken your computer would go 100% dark (or straight up restart).

Looking for a similar issue I found this thread:

https://community.amd.com/t5/graphics/rx-7900-xtx-crashes-randomly-to-blackscreen/m-p/584154

The solution was to disable “Core Performance Boost” in the BIOS, but I’m not sure if that’s even an option for a 2700X (I only owned a 3700X, 5800X and 5800X3D so far). The guy also had a B450 board.

Besides that… the classic steps I’d take:

1. Update your BIOS to the newest version (And set XMP to on again)
2. Run DDU and reinstall the newest GPU drivers (I owned a 5700 XT before switching to a 3080 and had plenty of issues with AMD drivers at times)
3. Run in a terminal as admin: sfc /scannow, if Windows finds any errors and fixes them, run the command again (maybe after a restart) till no more errors are found
4. Run a scan on your disks if they are faulty, you can also do CPU, GPU and RAM testing. Though if you did steps 1 to 3 it might already be fixed

If nothing helps then it might just be your PSU, but that would be weird to be honest. The PSU either can take the load or it can’t, what happens if you run stress tests? Furmark + a CPU heavy test at the same time, does the PSU crap out?