Recently I have seen this post on the Nvidia forums:
I don’t know if Sora works for Nvidia or has inside connections, but I have not seen this confirmed anywhere else. I want to believe this, but I have little to no hope anymore.
I’m just waiting for September 6th to finally find out if I’ll be able to play Gears or not.
That Sora guy seems to just reply matter-factly without knowing for sure. He was trying to argue to me that the Nvidia 10 series issue is a small isolated issue, when it’s cleary the opposite and very widespread.
Then I see him always replying to everyone that has any problem with a driver, telling them it’s their faulty hardware.
This is probably what he’s talking about:
I’m hoping there’s something to it, but I believe the next driver will be the Game Ready drivers for Gears 5, so it’s gonna be crazy if they just happen to fix it with the launch drivers.
Sora has long been a troll on their forums. I wouldn’t treat them as a reliable source.
Yeah I saw that too in other topics, that’s why I did not trust him as a reliable source. Anyway, the Nvidia rep’s post it’s way better, I’m just praying for a REAL fix to happen.
To be fair it didn’t crash for a good while till post launch 
Sora trolls %90 of the time says crashes equal unstable PC I just ignore the MF.
BUMP, I’m still shaking, I can’t believe this is happening 2019
The fact that it crashes or that we might be finally getting a fix?
Probably both.
I have RTX 2080 ti and still crashes. it is both of their fault. but at least nvidia worked on it but i think the gave up on gears 4.
Hey mate, this solution worked for a friend on mine that was having constant crashes on his 2080ti. If you have non default bios settings a windows update caused issues for some users.
The way to fix it (if this is your issue) is to set the bios to default settings, then boot up windows. Then you can go back and change your bios settings to what you had.
As mentioned above that’s well worth trying.
I believe the RTX cards don’t crash but then something else it causing it.
The game also doesn’t play nice with Overclocks.
Hopefully a permanent fix comes but try what Ghost mentioned or look to see what else can be causing it.
Another thing that’s always bothered me about Gears 4, is how Nvidia Control Panel seems to not even recognize it properly. I hate when games’ icons show up as a generic application icon in there. At least some of the program settings don’t work for it also.
I turn fast-sync on for Overwatch in the 3d program settings, and leave v-sync off and frames unlocked in-game. You know fast-sync is working when it locks the fps to a multiple of your refresh rate. My refresh rate is 60hz, so it locks it to 120 or 180 fps, and will jump between the two.
Turning fast-sync on in the program settings for Gears 4 does nothing. The fps will just go wherever it wants if I have it unlocked in-game. I luckily don’t get much screen tearing, but it’s annoying that the game doesn’t seem to even work with Nvidia Control Panel.
Why would you want to use Fast Sync and why would you want to go to 180 anyway if you use Fast Sync.
Hitting or exceeding your refresh rate only injects lots of input lag.
Fast sync is less latency than v-sync, and stops the tearing without v-sync.
You get less input lag the higher fps you go, regardless of your refresh rate.
" Fast sync is intended to be used for games where your FPS is a multiple of your refresh rate. It works best if your games run upwards of 240FPS if you’re on a 60Hz monitor. It has much lower input lag compared to vsync. If you can 't reach these high FPS, then fast sync will result in more visible stutter."
Not of a Sync tech is working outside of G-Sync.
Skip to 13:20 for the verdict.
It’s always best to have:
G-Sync + V-Sync On in NCP and off in the app/game and a -2 or -3FPS cap depending on refresh rate.
Yea, use to watch his vids a lot, pretty sure I saw this one at the time. I don’t notice microstuttering above 120 though in OW. He does say to keep an eye on it, because it was just recently released at that time, it’s 3 years later now also.
In the quote I pasted above, it mentions the visible stutter, and that it’s usually if you can’t get the much higher framerates in-game. If I go under 120 with it on, I notice the stutters. 120-180 seems good, for OW at least.
I was having the same issues, hard lock forcing hard boot. Complete freeze and at the most random times, Usually in menu.
For me I just went into the driver settings for my GeForce Display settings for Gears 5 and turned off G-Sync and Vertical Sync. This completely resolved all issues!!! Same works for Gears 4!
Tearing fixes crashing, apparently.
