I've sent this to ED Support, and posted it on various other forums but I have yet to have anything work.
Workstation specs:
Asus ROG Maximus XI Code motherboard
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.6 GHz
4x G-Skill TridentZ RGB F4-4133C17-8GTZR memory modules
EVGA RTX 2080 Ti FTW3
Samsung 960 Pro 1TB
Windows 10 Home 64 bit (10.0.17763.475)
Video demonstrating the issue
Things I've tried:
I started by treating it as a potential GPU issue, either hardware related or driver related. I did an uninstall / reinstall of the drivers using DDU, but it did not mitigate the issue
I followed suggestions that it may be page file related, and manually set my page file to around 16 GB, which did not mitigate the issue
I thought it might be storage related, so I changed the operating mode on my M.2 slot from SATA x2 to x4, but did not see any improvement. I did experience some IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL crashes that I guessed were related, unfortunately Windows never generated a crash dump for any of these BSODs nor did it generate an event in event viewer, so I was never able to troubleshoot. I've since set the mode back to x2 (I also did benchmarking before and after the change using CrystalDiskMark, here are the results before, and after)
I originally built the workstation and installed Windows 10 LTSB / LTSC, which I started to suspect was somehow causing an issue. I've since re-installed a regular version of Windows 10 Home, which did not mitigate the issue
Suspecting an issue with VR, I've tried launching DCS in non-VR mode, only to still encounter the issue
Removed any "auto" overclock through my BIOS and am now running the CPU at stock 3.6 GHz clock
Changed monitor settings in-game from 1 monitor, to 3, and back
I've run system stress tests with Aida64 to rule out faulty hardware and / or temperature issues, and I haven't encountered any instability. I've also stress-tested my GPU using MSI Kombuster, and I never saw temperatures get anywhere alarming.
This and Dark Souls 3 are the only games so far that exhibit this behavior. I have yet to determine if they're actually related, or if Dark Souls 3 is having its own issue. Games that I've tried that do work:
Squad
GTA V
Kerbal Space Program
X-Plane 11 (VR and non-VR)
VTOL VR
rFactor 2 (VR and non-VR)
Warhammer 2: Total War
Unigine Superposition (Benchmark and game mode in VR and non-VR)
