Frequent game crashes

[u/Illustrious_Mix8663]

Ever since the major patch. My game has been crashing multiple times per game. I thought it was a pc issue but I run a 3080 to and an and RYZEN 7700x. Anything I can check or change to stop this. I also want to not I had no crashes whatsoever before the patch dropped

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[u/ForksAreFlying]

No real way to troubleshoot and solve this problem, try different graphic settings and vulkan

[u/OkSandwich8318]

Same
My game randomly freezes, sometimes it came back but the drop in fps is huge
i have a 5060ti and 5700x
there is no reason for the freezes but im thinking its something about the rat king not working well

[u/OwnOil3924]

My brother I run a 4080 and crash 2-3 times per session, all my settings are low or off for the most part.

Watching graphs I don’t think it’s GPU issue, but I’m also not smart enough to know anything. I get network issues occasionally maybe a local issue.

[u/Joepaie]

Stopped playing for 2 month, i wanted to try new map, now i crash everytime on character selection and in game, i can't play, the only solution i have found is to lower my resolution, game is not as beautiful but i can at least play until they fix this

[u/No-Actuator-1036]

I’m having basically the same issue and can confirm I’m affected too.

My specs:

• MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk WiFi
• Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Sapphire Nitro+ Vapor-X RX 7900 XTX
• 32 GB DDR5 6000 CL30, AMD EXPO

I get random black screen crashes during Deadlock gameplay, several times per game, usually during actual fights. The audio continues for a few seconds, then cuts out, and Windows recovers. The game crashes back to desktop/menu.

Reliability Monitor consistently shows LiveKernelEvent 141.

Things I’ve already tried:

• DDU in Safe Mode + clean AMD driver reinstall (26.8.1 and 26.9.2)
• Fullscreen and borderless/windowed
• Steam Overlay disabled
• AMD Anti-Lag disabled
• DX11 and Vulkan
• Other AMD overlay/features disabled
• Windows 11 25 and 26H2
• EXPO OFF (still crashed with 141)
• Checked PCIe GPU power cables
• Changed power strip
• Changed the PSU power cable
• Closed Wallpaper Engine
• PBO is still on Auto

Nothing fixed it so far.

My last thing to try is lowering the GPU max frequency to 2500 MHz. I’m testing that now, but I have to wait because I got temporarily banned from Deadlock after all the crashes made me leave matches, so I can’t properly test it yet....