UPDATE: The CTD’s were getting annoying up to the point where I was about to reinstall the 3070. I had my eyes on a 3080 or 3090, but not for the rediculous price of € 3100… I’m still waiting for the notification from EVGA to able to order a 3090 for around € 1700. Especially since I know the DLSS thing may be coming (however AMD seems to have its own tech coming our way) and the software is optimized more for NVidia than AMD (which is kinda strange knowing the Xbox is AMD hardware).
But I really wanted to stay with AMD. The 6900XT was a steal at € 1000 and has 16gb VRAM!! So I hung in a little while longer… Yesterday I read a post about updating the Realtek HD audio driver. So I did that. The latest driver for my MB (a Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite V2) was quite old (november 2020) but I did it anyway. I also updated to the latest Chipset drivers (also ‘old’) and LAN drivers. Since then I haven’t had a CTD… Fingers crossed, but this has been the most stable situation for weeks. I even started fiddling around with sliders to optimize settings for visual clarity and FPS (last weeks were mainly about finding stability).
Now I’m at (for GA aircraft): 90% OXR, repo off, preview off, 100% TAA, LOD 200%, med/high/ultra settings and in AMD on Chill mode @ 30FPS min and max, sharpening on, Tesselation on AMD optimized.
I’ll post an update, later this week when I’ve flown more hours.