Graphics cards are pushed to their absolute limits by modern games. If a user is running an aggressive factory overclock, or if the hardware is degrading with age, it may fail to calculate a complex ray-tracing bounce or rasterization step. The GPU stalls, Windows steps in, and the dx12.cpp crash window appears. 3. The Unpredictability of PC Ecosystems

If you have used MSI Afterburner, EVGA Precision X1, or your GPU's internal software to overclock your card, revert it to settings. DirectX 12 link errors are highly sensitive to memory clock instability. Even a "stable" overclock in other games may cause this specific error in UE5 titles.

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Unstable drivers are the most frequent cause. If you recently updated your drivers and the error started, a rollback is often required.