Unreal engine crashing my graphics? bug in latest version?

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I also have this problem and the odd thing it suddenly started to happen…

I was doing a bunch of Unreal tutorials for 2D games (Udemy Cobra Code) and I spent hours in Unreal engine working just fine.
Then suddenly now I cannot work more than 5-10 minutes in my project and the screen turns blank.
I first thought it was overheating of the GPU or something but now I tried running heavy games for extended periods and this happens sometimes even when I am just inside trying to edit something simple like a Blueprint och Sprite etc.

Hi,

I have been working on some 2D gaming stuff, done hours or tutorials running Unreal Engine 5.5 working really well.

Now suddenly in my project, UE and/or graphics card seems to crash in a bad state. The monitor disconnects and becomes blank but I can still hear audio etc so it seems windows is running ok, however the only solution is to do a forced reboot.

I thought first it might be some overheating problem, but then I ran some heavy games for a while and then it never happens.
Besides it can happen in very un-heavy steps like editing a Blueprint or a sprit just, it almost seems random.

I am running UE 5.5.4 on a windows 11 home with latest update on a PC with an Nvidia RTX 3070 connected to a 49" Samsung ultrawide.

I will investigate a bit more if other projects works differently, maybe something is corrupt in my project but then its still a very bad and wierd crash?

I will try to investigate more if the project might be corrupted or something, but that should not crash the whole UE/Graphics card?

Grateful for feedback, have been trying multiple proposed fixes for people having similar issues, updated drivers, etc but nothing helped so far.

It feels almost like this could be a bug with the latest version?

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Look into unreal logs (text ones in log file), there may be hint to reason.

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Update:
I more or less confirmed its related to by project somehow.
When I open another project, the issue does not seem to occur.
Will see if I can find some logs to see hints why it happens

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Hey there @PappaGroot! Welcome to the community! You can find the project specific crashes and logs in Unreal Projects\YourProjectName\Saved\Crashes and Unreal Projects\YourProjectName\Saved\Logs respectively. Your crashes when the editor closes also show the crash context, but without editor symbols they won’t say much. If the information looks truncated, you may require those editor symbols.

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