Anyone having BSOD (blue screen of death)?

[eaglet123]

GTX 3080, XGP version, frequent BSOD. One happened when I just started the game. one happened when I tried to exit the game, after patch 116.

[AmesNFire]

Nothing on my end like that.

[MaGicBush]

Games do not cause a BSOD. Check your hardware. Something is failing or overheating. Try reinstalling your GPU drivers first, and then try to run Furmark, and Prime if that doesn't help and your temps look good.

[Viper]

BSOD is an OS crash. Its not possible for a game to do that. BSODs are caused by drivers ..hardware failing or corrupted system files. The game is running on a different tier or level than the OS and cannot cause it to crash. Not likely overheating either since this is going to cause the BIOS protection to kick in and cause a PC shutdown but not usually a BSOD. I guess its possible however.

[Satoru]

BSOD tends to be more of an issue with your system or OS than the game. Games in windows 10 now are basically isolated from the HAL and lower levels of the OS. Meaning even if a game goes bonkers, it basically only crashes itself.

Even bad drivers, which maybe some older people may remember, AMD drivers used to be notoriously bad causing system issues. These days AMD drivers are better, but also again Windows 10 basically prevents even a bad driver from crashing the entire system. I mean yes it can still happen but its much harder and more of an edge case these days, than "oh its Tuesday so my AMD drivers decided to have a seizure"

If you're expericing a BSOD the windows event viewer will generally tell you what dll/sys module faulted to cause it. I would however start with a full manual windows update. I've seen people insist that they are 'fully updated' only to be shocked that running a manual windows update shows like 2 years of updates being queued up and failing

[Tynendir]

I had a similar problem on demanding strategy games like humankind and total war. (my screen would turn a reddish hue with a frozen sound coming from the speakers). It was the fault of the basic Overclocking done by default on my Asus motherboard. Go to the bios and deactivate the oc option and see if it works.

[Leitto]

the same problem is RTX 3070

[Leitto]

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
16,0 GB
3070
Windows 10 Pro 21H1
blue screen of death
Only when playing, the map is loaded at a maximum of 89 percent temperature of 60 -65 degrees

[Leitto]

driver nvidia studio 471.68

[Tynendir]

Have you checked if you have any overclocking enabled?

[eaglet123]

Thank you guys for reply. I have figured this out. My system sets the power on high performance, while the thermal solution on "balanced" rather than "performance". This means the fans are running on a limited speed. Therefore it is a overheat problem.

After changing the thermal to performance, everything runs normally and nicely. It is an Alienware desktop. So if anyone is on this system, don't forget to change the thermal option.

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by eaglet123:

After changing the thermal to performance, everything runs normally and nicely. It is an Alienware desktop. So if anyone is on this system, don't forget to change the thermal option.

Glad you found a solution!

Also keep in mind that thermal paste doesn't last forever. If you're PC is more than a couple years old, it may be due for a refresh (and a good case/fan cleaning!).

[Leitto]

Originally posted by Tynendir:

Have you checked if you have any overclocking enabled?

Yes memory 3200 xmp

[Tynendir]

Then remove the overclock and it will hopefully work. Check on your BioS as well if you got a factory OC that you can remove.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Leitto:

Originally posted by Tynendir:

Have you checked if you have any overclocking enabled?

Yes memory 3200 xmp

Check your event viewer it will tell you what caused the BSOD which will be a starting point