Rainbow Six Siege Crashes Mid-Round With Dual-Monitor Black Screen
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MellowPine42
Rainbow Six Siege repeatedly crashes during matches every 5–10 minutes. Both monitors suddenly go black, the game closes without displaying an error, and I can reconnect afterward. My hardware is well above the minimum requirements. I have already reinstalled the game, updated all drivers, verified the Steam files, capped the frame rate, and lowered the graphics settings, but nothing has helped. The issue only happens in Siege, and I'm looking for ideas on what else to troubleshoot.
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It would help to know your full PC specifications, especially the GPU, power supply, CPU, RAM, and Windows version. A black screen can still point to a graphics driver crash or GPU instability even if the computer is only a couple of years old. Check Windows Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor around the time of the crash for display-driver errors, and try doing a clean GPU driver installation rather than just updating over the existing driver.
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Since lowering the settings and limiting FPS didn’t change anything, try disabling overlays and background hooks one at a time. Steam, Discord, NVIDIA or AMD overlays, recording software, RGB utilities, and hardware-monitoring tools can sometimes conflict with the game. Also try switching between the available graphics APIs or launch modes and run the game with overlays completely disabled. If the display driver resets, the logs should help confirm it.
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MellowPine42: It only happens in Siege, so I’m not convinced the hardware is failing, but I’ll check the system logs and try a clean driver installation.