Blue Screen of Death - Computer Shut Down

[Kosh800]

Is anyone having this problem specifically? It just happened to me once. I'd been having random crashes to desktop over the last few hours of game play. Sometimes it would be after several hours. Sometimes it was while attempting to exit or enter a building. I didn't change any settings that would cause a real issue so I don't really know what the damn problem is.

The error was a Driver Overran Stack Buffer. My crash reports are telling me it's not a problem with my hardware, it's a problem with the software. Which software? Don't know, but it only happens with Starfield. I can't even tell you the last time I got a BSOD before this. It's been years!

Google isn't showing much outside of some reports of CTD. Anyone else having this issue? Anyone have any tips to prevent this from happening again? I'm running the latest updates on everything, including video card drivers. I'm not tech illiterate so it's not going the be the most common ID-10-T errors.

Edit: For anyone wondering, crash report says it happened in ntkrnlmp.exe and ntoskrnl.exe. I guess I might try to do a complete wipe and clean reinstall of my Nvidia drivers but I have doubts as to if that will fix it or not.

[Mitch Bove]

Did you check Event Viewer? It should tell you what and why it crashed

[Lottergeist_Beetlejuice]

Hello, so I've been playing for almost 20 hours now and haven't had a single crash or hang. The game runs really well, even if it's a hardware devourer! I play in 4K and use a 9700K, 32 GB RAM and a 2080Ti and the game is on an SSD. I can't complain so far.

[bogdi]

I had same issues with latest nvidia driver, system crashed and restarted with no graphics installed. Used DDU and restarted graphic card is back in Device Manager, installed older driver and everything is ok now.

[Cellar_Cat]

I haven't even crashed the game yet let alone my whole system.

[Jimmy James]

Could be RAM - either bad settings or bad sticks. Apparently this game hits RAM hard and might be why you're just now experiencing it.

Xmp profile or custom settings? Pass memtest?

Go with the clean driver install but if that's not it maybe the next place to start looking.

[Hoopy Frood Jay©]

Originally posted by Jimmy James:

Could be RAM - either bad settings or bad sticks. Apparently this game hits RAM hard and might be why you're just now experiencing it.

Xmp profile or custom settings? Pass memtest?

Go with the clean driver install but if that's not it maybe the next place to start looking.

Last night, I enabled XMP in my PC's bios for the first time, just to see, if I could a couple more fps out of that. 30 minutes later, the game crashed (for the first time in 40 hours), another 30 minutes later, the whole computer crashed.

I disabled XMP afterwards and am playing without crashes since.

Might be my machine or the game, but my XMP and Starfield don't get along^^

[YeenBean]

It's just the "blue wave" that we've been told is so wonderful.

[cheshirm]

ntkrnlmp.exe and ntoskrnl.exe - windows NT system files

perhaps something in here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-bsod-ntkrnlmpexe-and-ntoskrnlexe/4451a0d6-2e45-493c-8bc3-3fee268a2b61

[Kosh800]

Originally posted by EinfachUdo:

Hello, so I've been playing for almost 20 hours now and haven't had a single crash or hang. The game runs really well, even if it's a hardware devourer! I play in 4K and use a 9700K, 32 GB RAM and a 2080Ti and the game is on an SSD. I can't complain so far.

Then why did you bother to post? Thanks for absolutely nothing I guess lol

[Kosh800]

Originally posted by Hoopy Frood Jay©:

Originally posted by Jimmy James:

Could be RAM - either bad settings or bad sticks. Apparently this game hits RAM hard and might be why you're just now experiencing it.

Xmp profile or custom settings? Pass memtest?

Go with the clean driver install but if that's not it maybe the next place to start looking.

Last night, I enabled XMP in my PC's bios for the first time, just to see, if I could a couple more fps out of that. 30 minutes later, the game crashed (for the first time in 40 hours), another 30 minutes later, the whole computer crashed.

I disabled XMP afterwards and am playing without crashes since.

Might be my machine or the game, but my XMP and Starfield don't get along^^

That could be it for me. I'm sad that I can't use my hardware the way I'm supposed to because of their ♥♥♥♥ code or bugs. The whole point of getting the hardware I did is so that I could overclock it to *gasp* play games lol. Hopefully there's a fix in the works because this is a big oversight on their part. I don't know what percentage of gamers overclock their hardware but I'm guessing it's quite a bit. Asking people to turn that off just to play your game is asking too much.

[Kosh800]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

ntkrnlmp.exe and ntoskrnl.exe - windows NT system files

perhaps something in here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-bsod-ntkrnlmpexe-and-ntoskrnlexe/4451a0d6-2e45-493c-8bc3-3fee268a2b61

Thanks, appreciate it. I'll try some of that out next.

[ArmedTerror]

I searched this on google: "what causes software Driver Overran Stack Buffer." It give a list of possible errors:

The error can have several causes, including:
Corrupted system files
Outdated, incompatible, or corrupt graphic drivers
Problematic applications
Overclocking your PC
Motherboard issues
Faulty RAM
Malware infection

It seems that the most likely case is that the game may be pushing your hardware to the limit and causing an issues. Perhaps try messing with the graphics settings on your game to see if it helps. Maybe start on low graphics with any unnecessary fancy settings turned off or way down.

[RiChuF]

Originally posted by Kosh800:

Is anyone having this problem specifically? It just happened to me once. I'd been having random crashes to desktop over the last few hours of game play. Sometimes it would be after several hours. Sometimes it was while attempting to exit or enter a building. I didn't change any settings that would cause a real issue so I don't really know what the damn problem is.

The error was a Driver Overran Stack Buffer. My crash reports are telling me it's not a problem with my hardware, it's a problem with the software. Which software? Don't know, but it only happens with Starfield. I can't even tell you the last time I got a BSOD before this. It's been years!

Google isn't showing much outside of some reports of CTD. Anyone else having this issue? Anyone have any tips to prevent this from happening again? I'm running the latest updates on everything, including video card drivers. I'm not tech illiterate so it's not going the be the most common ID-10-T errors.

Edit: For anyone wondering, crash report says it happened in ntkrnlmp.exe and ntoskrnl.exe. I guess I might try to do a complete wipe and clean reinstall of my Nvidia drivers but I have doubts as to if that will fix it or not.

def sounds like a corrupt display driver
clean out the old one and install the newest one available like you said at the end of ya post
also turn steam overlay off that does cause issues

[Life Tiger]

im also stuck with this problem...

[Kosh800]

Originally posted by Life Tiger:

im also stuck with this problem...

I used DDU to do a clean uninstall and then reinstall of my video card drivers in safe mode. I haven't had a BSOD again yet, but I have had a CTD once or twice over the course of 10 or so hours. That's not too bad I guess. I just have to make frequent use of the quicksave feature.

I don't know if it's luck or not but the BSOD hasn't reappeared. That doesn't mean it won't in the future, though. This game really does seem to have a certain amount of PC related kinks it has to sort out. It wouldn't surprise me if our BSODs had to do with that as well.

But apparently Todd's answer is to "buy a better computer" which doesn't give me a lot of hope for Bethesda's PC support going forward.