games crashing on windows 11

[<#4610f8>Emerald]

everything was working fine until games randomly started crashing. it happens for seemingly no reason and appears to happen more when entering a load zone. are there any known solutions for this? sometimes games randomly close and sometimes they just freeze. no idea whats happening.

[76561198343548661]

Event Viewer can report error codes

[<#4610f8>Emerald]

Originally posted by littlecat20160:

Event Viewer can report error codes

where can i find event viewer lol?

[mtono]

can you tell us what hardware your pc is made of? i can imagine that you have a software error, what would mean that you should reinstall windows, imho...i cannot tell you where the event viewer in windows 11 is, because i have german version of windows 10 pro.

[mtono]

btw: check your ram with a ramtest software (memtest or windwos embedded ramtest...memtest maybe better) and benchmark your pc with 3dmark demo...its free on steam. i would do so...my2ct.

[76561198343548661]

Press Windows + X or right-click on the Windows Start menu to trigger the Quick Link menu. In the pop-up menu, click Event Viewer to launch it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

So easy to access these things in Windows OS via the taskbar search box.

[Set-115689]

All games or just specific ones?

Try turning off msi afterburner if you are using it.

press window key and type reliability and click on view reliability history.

[<#4610f8>Emerald]

any idea what this means? i checked reliability history on windows and got this in the problem details.
Faulting application name: Terraria.exe, version: 1.4.3.6, time stamp: 0x622fb422
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.22616.1, time stamp: 0x62294caf
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x00147132
Faulting process id: 0x0x6BF0
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1D86894E63E1978
Faulting application path: E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Terraria\Terraria.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 91bb936a-0411-4d90-a173-e0743d2414ae
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Sounds like your OS is corrupted. Did you install Win11 as an in-place upgrade from within Win10?

First thing to try is installing or repairing your NET Framework. Judging by the exception error code, it appears to be a NET Framework related issue.

[mtono]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Sounds like your OS is corrupted. Did you install Win11 as an in-place upgrade from within Win10?

First thing to try is installing or repairing your NET Framework. Judging by the exception error code, it appears to be a NET Framework related issue.

wouldnt a clean install of windows 11 be better? i think so...

[Ghost Robertson]

Yeah, If you guys think his windows install is screwed it's actually a lot easier doing a windows reset that will reinstall it, Trying to fix a broken operating system is such a pain in the bum that a reinstall is easier.

If that fails then it'll be some of your hardware, I'd guess ram but i dunno.

[Ghost Robertson]

Oh and how old is your hard drive? Sometimes bad sectors can cause a crash or two.

When some of my hard drives went they went straight away without warning.

[Set-115689]

If your worried about your hard drive run crystal disk and look at your drives.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Ghost Robertson:

Yeah, If you guys think his windows install is screwed it's actually a lot easier doing a windows reset that will reinstall it, Trying to fix a broken operating system is such a pain in the bum that a reinstall is easier.

If that fails then it'll be some of your hardware, I'd guess ram but i dunno.

Not really because a Windows Reset requires that all of the files needed to do that are on the C Drive and not have any issues. However can just make a WIN10 64bit 21H2 USB flash drive and do it from there without doing a drive wipe + clean install.

Yes check each drives health with Crystal Disk Info just to be sure you don't have a failing drive. Can't hurt to run CHKDSK /F /R on each drive partition as well to verify all data, free space and if needed, mark off any bad sectors.