The card is only about 3 months old! However, the vents on the GPU did have a comprehensive covering of fluff; after pulling it all out, everything is running just fine. Ventilation is always a bit of a pain for my particular case, since my motherboard only has one PCI-E3 slot right near the bottom,...

It's definitely overheating! :D I'd mentally ruled that out, since I've been playing other games recently on much higher settings with no problems. However, checking temperature monitoring software, I saw that yup it's climbing to 100c pretty quick. Just fired up Dark Souls again to see what happens...

Already up to date with latest drivers - nothing newer to try :( Also, there are no windows dumps (it's set to dump to %SystemRoot%\Minidump, but that doesn't exist even after further crashes). It's a shame I don't have any more to report, but alas it just dies hard. It is clear when it is going to,...

The game runs really nicely for a little while on my home PC, but before long the performance becomes noticeably worse for a minute or two, and then cuts directly from gameplay to a black screen; some existing audio playback can still be heard for a few seconds (it doesn't sound like anything new is...