There was nothing out of the ordinary for the ram usage checking the resource monitor. it never went above 11gb when i was starting up the games.
I did not change any of the video memory settings in these fresh installs. I would literally make a new install of windows, update windows (or try to) install steam, install my graphics card and its drivers (which seem to fail unless done multiple times or reset the pc) and then attempt to play the dx12 games which crash. all default settings.
I have done a memtest86 on the motherboard for the ram which took a while and it came back no issues for both sets of ram.
I wanted to try one more thing last night and what i did was install windows 10 and not installing the graphics card and just try playing the games with the igpu since its dx12 compatible as well. I had interesting results.
So first, i made a win 10 media creation tool usb drive, installed windows 10 on the new motherboard and my second m.2 drive. I did not have it connected to the internet this time for the installation since the mobo needs drivers from a usb to get wifi/etc. Once windows was done installing, i installed the drivers for wifi, and started windows updates/mobo updates, however, i was still getting corrupted file issues when i do sfc /scannow. i was also getting errors trying to download some updates.
I was able to eventually get the corrupted files sorted out with the cmd line DISM/etc. and then i was able to install the windows updates fully. So far everything seems fine.
I then install steam and install callisto, deadspace and hogwarts, all games that was crashing before with the "out of video memory" issue. Surprisingly, callisto and deadspace booted up fully, albeit, with very low frame rate since its just the igpu. When i booted up hogwarts, it did not boot ALL the way, however, it actually got really close to loading all the shaders, about 70% opposed to my 3% and crash i would get with the nvidia graphics card.
So i try opening hogwarts again, the game just ends up crashing sooner and sometimes doesn't even open. I believe this is just because the game is extremely resource hungry and it just crashes in general, not being of video memory. i dont get the same video memory error when it crashes on the igpu.
Here is event viewer showing the crash details under the igpu:
So since the computer seems to be stable for the most part, i try something slightly different. instead of hooking up my 4090 and installing those drivers, i connected my older gtx 1080ti and installed those drivers. I start the games and yep, i still get the same "out of video memory error".
So i am very confused to why this video error keeps happening. i have tried 3 separate graphics cards since this has started, 1080ti 11gb vram, 3090 24gb vram, 4090 24gb vram, brand new ram, 2 separate m.2 drives, an entirely new motherboard.
The only things i have not changed is the processor and the power supply.
So i am about to go buy a 13600k processor and also just for the hell of it, buy a new m.2 1tb ssd for testing. Essentially, buying a new computer.
If i must, i have other powersupplies i can use for testing.