Anyone's game crashing due to "Event 129, stornvme" in Event Viewer

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Game Crashed and I checked the event Viewer and was filled with "Event 51, disk" events and once I finally scrolled to the end, it Was "event 129 ,stornvme". Looking online it says something like "the system lost communication with your NVMe SSD"

[AmaiAmai]

Make sure your SSD isn't overheating. If it doesn't have a heatsink, or a fan is blowing on it in the case from the GPU you should be concerned about heat. If it's in a LAPTOP you should also be concerned about heat.

When the NvME overheats it will shut off. If the NvME reports that it reached a critical temperature or you have page file on said NvME, you'll get a bluescreen that mentions STORPORT, DEVICE_UNLOADED or it can appear as a PAGED_MEMORY error.

Make sure your NvME is adequately cooled, most shutoff around the 60C mark. If you have a desktop you can just add a case fan and blow onto it (or heatsinks if it does not have one).

If you have a laptop consider getting a laptop cooling pad, but this may not help if your laptop does not have a good airflow design.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Make sure your SSD isn't overheating. If it doesn't have a heatsink, or a fan is blowing on it in the case from the GPU you should be concerned about heat. If it's in a LAPTOP you should also be concerned about heat.

When the NvME overheats it will shut off. If the NvME reports that it reached a critical temperature or you have page file on said NvME, you'll get a bluescreen that mentions STORPORT, DEVICE_UNLOADED or it can appear as a PAGED_MEMORY error.

Make sure your NvME is adequately cooled, most shutoff around the 60C mark. If you have a desktop you can just add a case fan and blow onto it (or heatsinks if it does not have one).

If you have a laptop consider getting a laptop cooling pad, but this may not help if your laptop does not have a good airflow design.

Such an SSD cannot overheat, unless they bought specifically one which can and has to be accompanied by a heatsink. But that is not commonly used by non-professionals for obvious reasons.

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Make sure your SSD isn't overheating. If it doesn't have a heatsink, or a fan is blowing on it in the case from the GPU you should be concerned about heat. If it's in a LAPTOP you should also be concerned about heat.

When the NvME overheats it will shut off. If the NvME reports that it reached a critical temperature or you have page file on said NvME, you'll get a bluescreen that mentions STORPORT, DEVICE_UNLOADED or it can appear as a PAGED_MEMORY error.

Make sure your NvME is adequately cooled, most shutoff around the 60C mark. If you have a desktop you can just add a case fan and blow onto it (or heatsinks if it does not have one).

If you have a laptop consider getting a laptop cooling pad, but this may not help if your laptop does not have a good airflow design.

Such an SSD cannot overheat, unless they bought specifically one which can and has to be accompanied by a heatsink. But that is not commonly used by non-professionals for obvious reasons.

Actually SSDs overheat all the time? NvMEs are notorious for overheating which is why that handler was added in Windows.

Also, so you can learn:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/post/Understand-SSD-overheating-and-what-to-do-about-it

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Such an SSD cannot overheat, unless they bought specifically one which can and has to be accompanied by a heatsink. But that is not commonly used by non-professionals for obvious reasons.

Actually SSDs overheat all the time? NvMEs are notorious for overheating which is why that handler was added in Windows.

Also, so you can learn:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/post/Understand-SSD-overheating-and-what-to-do-about-it

Overheating SSD is a myth - I am using a Samsung 990 Pro - and not once was there ever an issue despite intense usage. It rather surprised me that Samsung SSDs are so incredibly long lasting.

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Actually SSDs overheat all the time? NvMEs are notorious for overheating which is why that handler was added in Windows.

Also, so you can learn:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/post/Understand-SSD-overheating-and-what-to-do-about-it

Overheating SSD is a myth - I am using a Samsung 990 Pro - and not once was there ever an issue despite intense usage. It rather surprised me that Samsung SSDs are so incredibly long lasting.

It's not a "myth" -- it's a reality. Not experiencing it personally doesn't make the reality change, it just means that you didn't experience it.

His drive unloaded during use, and the most common causes are:

1. Overheat
2. Short on the controller or bus (if he has USB NvME)

Both are serious issues, but since he has no data loss and can keep using it then it's unlikely it's a short -- it's only heat.

Also it's easy to have the issue, and completely possible to have it happen easier when some boards have the NvME slots next to the GPU or VRMs. They can also experience the issue if they are using a PCI card with NvME slots (and the GPU blows on it).

Lastly, even if you had the best SSD on the planet with the best heatsink, it wouldn't matter if airflow in the case was limited or it was next to the VRM / GPU and heat was being dumped on it. It will still overheat, it'd just take somewhat longer. NvMEs still need air to pass over the heatsink, and this is dependent on case design (esp. in laptops)

The OP can easily test the issue by using logging software to check their SSD's temps (if that doesn't crash this buggy game) OR even simpler -- just open the case and retry.

Now, if they say the SSD disappears after the driver unloads and they restart the PC and it stays "hidden" then that does indicate that it is damage or has a fault. But if it had a fault to that degree, Windows would have blue screened and pushed out an error with STORPORT and not STORNVME.