@pautos - By deduction, if you’re seeing this same issue in more than just Gen Zero, then it’s likely to be something with the hardware, OS or drivers rather than the game itself.
I don’t know how your system is configured in terms of clock speeds, etc. But I will share this story with you, as it may steer you in the right direction.
I have a new and similar build (Ryzen 2700x & RTX 2080) and haven’t had any issues running anything as of yet. The caveat here is that it took me a while of messing with clock settings in my BIOS to get to its limits of stability. I never had issues with it that I didn’t cause myself by pushing things too hard.
At stock speeds (default 100MHz clock and 38x multiplier for CPU and 2133 MHz for memory), it was rock solid. I ran it like this for about a week. I threw games, productivity, video export, benchmarks, etc at it and never had any stability issues.
After that, I started experimenting with overclocking to test how far I could push it and keep things stable. Through trial and error, I have my processor locked at 4.2 GHz which is the fastest it would go without crashing / freezing and RAM running at 2667 MHz.
The odd issue I encountered was my memory. Despite having 3200 MHz rated memory, the fastest I could get my RAM to run stable was 2667 MHz. If I went above that, it would hard lock my computer and require a hard reset, much like you’re describing. It would boot and run at 2933 (I think that’s the next step up from 2667), but would randomly freeze when I started putting a demanding load on it beyond “normal” use. And like you, it would be a hard system lock requiring full reset / reboot.
This last scenario sounds similar to what you’re encountering. I can’t say for sure, as I don’t know what your BIOS settings are or if your friend overclocked your system or not at setup. But it if is overclocked, I would try running it at stock speeds to see if the problem goes away. That would be a good first step in diagnosing your problem.
I hope this helps.