Dev Update – The GPU Nightmare (And Why Development Almost Stopped)

Hey everyone,
I owe you a big update… and honestly this one is a bit dramatic.
Over the past weeks I was very close to abandoning development entirely because of a serious hardware issue with my RTX 5090. My PC started having constant black screens and forced Windows restarts, all caused by GPU crashes. At first I thought it was something simple, like drivers.
So I tried everything.
Driver updates, clean installs, testing different configurations… nothing worked. At one point I even convinced myself the problem might be physical instability of the card in the case. So I went as far as buying a vertical GPU support bracket (cost me about 100€) to mount the card vertically.
For one day I thought I had solved it.
Then the crashes came back. Same black screens. Same forced restarts. Completely random.
At that point I literally couldn’t work anymore. Rendering was impossible.
So I contacted Amazon to try to return the card. Their proposal was… not great. They offered either:
• a 5% refund of the purchase price
• or a repair process
The problem is that if the repair wasn’t possible, they would keep the card and refund the original purchase price.
Normally that wouldn’t be an issue… except that the exact same GPU now costs around €4600, which is almost €2000 more than what I paid. So accepting that option would basically mean losing the card and not being able to replace it.
Not exactly a great situation.
After almost a full month of troubleshooting, I think I finally found the real fix: undervolting the GPU.
I followed the guide from this video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0EnPz-jWY
And so far… it seems stable.
I’ve just recently started rendering again and I’ve already produced around 220 new images. Unfortunately, the story writing is still very behind, because this whole situation completely blocked my workflow for weeks.
Now that the technical issue seems solved, I’m jumping back into rendering as much as possible.
I really hope to finish this update soon. I have so many scenes and story developments planned, and honestly it makes me a bit sad that I haven’t been able to deliver updates faster.
Because of all this, I will disable payments for next month, and the next update will be FREE for everyone from day one.
You guys have been incredibly patient and I really appreciate that.
Sorry for the mess, and thank you for sticking around.
More progress soon.