Hi Tate,
There are several things I would like you to try to see if it improves stability for your system.
The GPU crash may be related to microsoft’s Timeout Detection & Recovery(TDR) feature. You can find out more about it here: Timeout detection and recovery (TDR) - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn
Basically, it detects if your GPU is hung up and if it passes a certain amount of time Windows will automatically reset the GPU resulting in the crash. This is done to prevent a freeze forcing a hard reboot of the system.
Sometimes you need to add a little more time for your GPU to process before Windows causes the reset. To do this you need to change the TDR delay.
I have two suggestion on how to do this you can do it manually yourself OR you can download a tool that will do it for you. However, I haven’t used the tool that much myself but it does appear to work. (Use at your own risk)
Method 1 (manually):
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Go to the this link:Testing and debugging TDR during driver development - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn
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There you will find a section called TdrDelay it gives you all the information you need to create a registry key that will change the delay time
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To open your registry open your start menu and type “run” once the window is open type “regedit” and hit OK
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Now you should have Registry Editor open this is where you will use the info at the website I just linked.
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First navigate the key path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers
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Right click on GraphicsDrivers and go to new> DWORD (32 bit) value
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You will see a new key appear make sure to name it “TdrDelay”
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Right click it and select “modify”
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Under Value data enter 10 (this is the number of seconds to delay) make sure you have Decimal selected as the base
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Hit okay and restart your system
Method 2
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Go to this forum: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/550192/geforce-drivers/wagnard-tools-ddu-gmp-tdr-manupulator-updated-09-01-14-/
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Download TDR Manipulator
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Run the application and change the TdrDelay value to 10
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Restart system
A user (IronicParadox) suggested that going into the content browser pane > click the little eye that says “View Options” and uncheck “Real-Time Thumbnails.” made the engine much more stable.
please be sure to let me know if any of these workarounds help.
Ed