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yai200439 Sep 26, 2023 @ 1:46am
Getting blue screen.
Still getting a WHEA error when playing this game. The WHEA error usually occurs during SSD issue.
Some comments said this game requires some serious hardware to play and that is why I get this blue screen.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Motherboard: PRIME B350-PLUS
RAM: 16gb
Graphic Geforce RTX 3070.

Not the most cutting edge spec out there, but isn't this be enough to play this, even in low settings?
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Caduryn Sep 26, 2023 @ 1:50am 
No idea but "Blue Screens" are Hardware/Driver issues, not the Game.
kalashnjkov21 Sep 28, 2023 @ 5:11am 
Originally posted by Caduryn:
No idea but "Blue Screens" are Hardware/Driver issues, not the Game.
nah, i can confirm that is a bug in this game because this is the first time i get blue screen of death while playing video game.
This bug happens in some specific maps.
Last edited by kalashnjkov21; Sep 28, 2023 @ 5:18am
alan0n Sep 28, 2023 @ 5:14am 
Okay. You win. Here is the clown you wanted.
yai200439 Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:07am 
Originally posted by kalashnjkov21:
Originally posted by Caduryn:
No idea but "Blue Screens" are Hardware/Driver issues, not the Game.
nah, i can confirm that is a bug in this game because this is the first time i get blue screen of death while playing video game.
This bug happens in some specific maps.
Same here. This is the first time I got the bluescreen at all. And it happens only when playing this game.
I think this game makes the CPU(or GPU) even with that spec, making it overheat and shut down. The computer becomes inferno everytime I play this game.
After ripping out the cover of my PC and placing a commercial-use fan(yes I bought it to get through the summer) has stopped the blue screen incident.
Caduryn Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:10am 
Originally posted by kalashnjkov21:
Originally posted by Caduryn:
No idea but "Blue Screens" are Hardware/Driver issues, not the Game.
nah, i can confirm that is a bug in this game because this is the first time i get blue screen of death while playing video game.
This bug happens in some specific maps.
Doesnt matter, a BSOD is ALWAYS Hardware/Driver problem, a Game CAN NOT do this, a Game can only expose the problem
Last edited by Caduryn; Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:11am
yai200439 Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:13am 
Originally posted by Caduryn:
Originally posted by kalashnjkov21:
nah, i can confirm that is a bug in this game because this is the first time i get blue screen of death while playing video game.
This bug happens in some specific maps.
Doesnt matter, a BSOD is ALWAYS Hardware/Driver problem, a Game CAN NOT do this
Then please explain the phenomenon in which this happens only when I play starfield. This happened first time since a bought this PC, and never happens when I'm playing other games or doing other things
I'm just baffled as anybody else
juskom95 Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:17am 
Originally posted by kalashnjkov21:
Originally posted by Caduryn:
No idea but "Blue Screens" are Hardware/Driver issues, not the Game.
nah, i can confirm that is a bug in this game because this is the first time i get blue screen of death while playing video game.
This bug happens in some specific maps.

BSOD is not the game, what it mean is the game is accessing something which is broken/wrong on your system.

What is your actual BSOD error code?

Also try this, as it converts the dump file into something readable.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
kingsims Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:24am 
I had crashes in my game after a few hours (No BSOD). fixed it by setting the memory voltage to 1.36 volts (Spec is 1.35), after re-enabling XMP.

OP you need to do a MemTest86+ https://www.memtest.org/. After doing that for 12 hours report back if you get an errors.

Blue screen can generally happens due:

1. Memory/CPU instability (Voltages too low/high or clocks set to high). You can test this by disabling XMP/Set CPU to stock settings in your bios and run with it for a long gaming session (e.g 6 hours).

2. Failing hardware. This is difficult to test unless you have spare GPU/Memory kit you can swap out to.

3. Overheating issue (This should be easily if you have an overlay running at the time of the crash, if the CPU, GPU temp are fine and warm, then check the NVME and Memory temps. If those are fine then you can rule it out).
Caduryn Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:28am 
Originally posted by yai200439:
Originally posted by Caduryn:
Doesnt matter, a BSOD is ALWAYS Hardware/Driver problem, a Game CAN NOT do this
Then please explain the phenomenon in which this happens only when I play starfield. This happened first time since a bought this PC, and never happens when I'm playing other games or doing other things
I'm just baffled as anybody else
Because Starfield is a very CPU heavy Game.

I also never use CPU Stock cooler, they are weak, you said you changed your cooling and bingo, no more problems.

Confirmed it was a proper cooling problem. ^^
Cybertrigger Sep 28, 2023 @ 6:28am 
it can be a heat issue or like someone else had i helped it was a combination of not enough memory ( had also 16 gb to begin with ) and overheating.
after he had upgraded his memory to 32 gb it was way more playabl.
for overheating required more drastic measures like lowering his max fps to 30 to have the pc generate less stress which means less heat generated.
the game is utilizing alot of cores on your processor which also means it generating across the processor way more heat then some other game.
just because other games didnt stress your system as much as this one does doesnt mean it cant be the case.

if you got a second screen then to specify your issue more a program called cpuid hwmonitor is quite usefull. you could put it up on the second screen and watch voltages, temperatures and also usage of your pc components.
the bad part is it doesnt have an auto log which means if you would bluescreen and have just one screen you couldnt quickly glance at the second screen to see values.
nickanaka Aug 22, 2024 @ 9:36pm 
Originally posted by Caduryn:
Originally posted by kalashnjkov21:
nah, i can confirm that is a bug in this game because this is the first time i get blue screen of death while playing video game.
This bug happens in some specific maps.
Doesnt matter, a BSOD is ALWAYS Hardware/Driver problem, a Game CAN NOT do this, a Game can only expose the problem
Love how wrong you were by the way. It was and still is a starfield issue.
Mickk Aug 23, 2024 @ 12:13am 
Originally posted by nickanaka:
Originally posted by Caduryn:
Doesnt matter, a BSOD is ALWAYS Hardware/Driver problem, a Game CAN NOT do this, a Game can only expose the problem
Love how wrong you were by the way. It was and still is a starfield issue.

This is an old thread, not sure why you dug it out of oblivion instead of creating you own thread to discuss your issue, or is it that you have no issue and just wanted to post your comment.
Meh, anyways.
BSOD are not caused by the game. The game may have been the thing that tripped the error but the game is not the cause. The is a problem with the software configuration on the users machine, drivers, firmware, OS patches, some software issue and it is brought to light by the game.

Here is a link from Microsoft which speaks about the WHEA error and in the comments the B350 chipset is mentioned.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/whea-uncorrectable-error-bsod/cc5f8e9a-8df3-4c11-b683-aec2790c9626

I have not read the link I provided in it's entirety but I would advise the OP or anyone experiencing this issue to first look to updating their BIOS. Check your motherboard manufacturer for a BIOS update and apply it is necessary
Caduryn Aug 23, 2024 @ 7:08am 
Originally posted by nickanaka:
Originally posted by Caduryn:
Doesnt matter, a BSOD is ALWAYS Hardware/Driver problem, a Game CAN NOT do this, a Game can only expose the problem
Love how wrong you were by the way. It was and still is a starfield issue.
No, its not, Games cant cause BDSO, thats a fact
KeppiJaPorkkana Aug 25, 2024 @ 5:34am 
Originally posted by yai200439:
Still getting a WHEA error when playing this game. The WHEA error usually occurs during SSD issue.
Some comments said this game requires some serious hardware to play and that is why I get this blue screen.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Motherboard: PRIME B350-PLUS
RAM: 16gb
Graphic Geforce RTX 3070.

Not the most cutting edge spec out there, but isn't this be enough to play this, even in low settings?

I had WHEA Errors BSOD's and generic game freezing every 5-10s and sounds out of synch and breaking.

Got it finally fixed by uninstalling the game and re-installing on a fast USB drive (Samsung T7 1TB MU-PC1T0T) connected to a "red" SSD USB port on my PC.
After trying about everything I could find on the issue I started monitoring the SSD speeds using the TaskManager on my secondary screen. My PNY CS3140 Gen4 x4 2TD NVMe SSD was reading 100% basically all the time all the way from starting the game till the BSOD (typically around 7-10min). Then I decided to check what the actual speeds I was getting with the CrystalDiskMark and found out my SSD only operates on about the 1/2 of the speed my SSD specs say. My read speed should be around 7500MB/s but was only getting 3432MB/s. Seems my motherboard only supports M.2 Gen 3 speeds (MSI Gaming from 2018). So I assume the game makes some kind of prediction what your SSD speeds should be and keeps loading things at that rate even like in my case the hardware only provided half of the reading speed and of course data the SSD should be capable of providing.
NOTE I have no issues with other games I have installed on my NVMs SSD and also Starfield was working OK when I played it last time early spring so the SSD problem is something that has appeared in some of the latest updates.

Hope this helps someone out there,
Last edited by KeppiJaPorkkana; Aug 25, 2024 @ 5:39am
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Date Posted: Sep 26, 2023 @ 1:46am
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