Pulling my hair out! BSOD

scojitsu

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I'd be eternally grateful if someone is able to fix this problem.

Basically, my PC suffers a BSOD but only when I use certain applications. The majority of games I've installed work splendid for example:

Skyrim works 100%
World of Warcraft works 100%
Sleeping Dogs works 100%
Sonic Generations works 100%
Tomb Raider works 100%

My emulator to play PS2 games, PCSX2 works 100%
Benchmarking tools such as Heaven, Fumark and stress testing with Intel Extreme Tuning Utility all perfectly stable.

Windows 8.1 runs fine.

This is the part I'm pulling my hair out. Whenever I play Battlefield 4, Planetside 2 or run Cinebench to benchmark my GPU/CPU I get the dreaded BSOD.

My system Specs:
EVGA 780 Superclocked ACX
i5 4670k
Gigabyte G1.SNIPER Z87 Motherboard
Corsair CMY8GX3M2A1866C9 Vengeance Pro Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866Mhz CL9 XMP
XFX 850W Black Edition 80+ Gold Fully-Modular Power Supply
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD


So, does anyone know why my system is able to play some games perfectly, yet a select few will not run at all?


P.S. A few things to point out.
-The BSOD says machine_check_exception.
-My system is not over clocked although I have increased Vcore voltage to 1.2 as I thought it may have been set too low.






 

scojitsu

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Apr 26, 2014
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I'd happily donate a finders fee to this problem. If my system couldnt run any game I'd be less frustated. The fact that it's only certain games I have the issue with is depressing.