Yeah, you're probably right on this. I don't know why Factorio was struggling so badly, but I did all kinds of stress tests to no avail (obv not thermal issues, for example), opened the case, re ran wires, re-seated the video card, and rebooted. Now it's as solid as ever, so I think it was a sudden ...

3D Mark has been running for 15-20 minutes, with a max GPU temp of 79C. I''ll run for another 30mins.

> Can it survive an hour or so in something like 3d-mark stress-test? I haven't tried, but I've done this: - Played various 3d-intensive games for 3+ hours just about every day since December (thanks pandemic, I guess) - Benchmarked CPU/Mem using intel tools - Played factorio for 12+ hours a few day...

Tried force-opengl. Same crash. This time I heard the windows hardware disconnect sound after screen went dark and factorio game sounds ended. Clearly not getting video to my monitor. More information: GTX 770 NVIDIA driver: 461.40, release 1/26/2021 OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview ...

I also have a windows stack dump, and memory map, but don't want to post those for various (perhaps obvious) reasons yet.

Every 15-20 minutes, screen goes dark, pc resets, bios post failed, then resets once more, and back to windows just fine. So far, no issues with other games / long running programs. This issue started this week. I've had about 300 hours of playtime to date with zero crashes prior to this. My system ...