Game crashes and leads to a BSOD

meisterziri

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Whenever I play a game, whatever game it is, it suddenly goes black and minimizes. I can still hear the game. Alt+tab won't work, clicking it in the taskbar won't work, right clicking it in the taskbar and then opening it won't work, and even trying to maximize it in the Task Manager won't work. My only choice is to end the process and restart the game. Seconds after restarting the game, my computer crashes and I get a BSOD that lasts for some seconds, and then a restart.

It only started last night, and all my driver are up to date. GPU and mobo BIOS also up to date. Hardware temps were around 50°C for both CPU and GPU last time I checked after a game crashed.
The game crashes very randomly, sometimes after an hour in-game and sometimes after a couple of minutes.

My PC's only a few weeks old. I've had heavy gaming sessions with multiple programs and games on very high settings without any problems, but since yesterday even the lightest game will crash. The last game I was playing was Mark of the Ninja, with nothing running in the background.
PC specs are:

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Mobo: MSI B85M-G43
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x4GB
GPU: Sapphire Dual-X R9 270 2GB GDDR5
CPU: i5 4670k
PSU: Corsair CX500M

I've been trying to solve this the whole morning and don't know where to look anymore, so please any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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it could also be a bad PSU. or maybe better put, it is not a very high quality PSU. (ur PSU is made by Channel Well Technology or CWT and NOT Corsair. i only use a Seasonic PSUs with the Corsair brand name on it; because Seasonic makes some of the best PSUs and Corsair has extended warranties and great phone support; and the one i have is the best PSU imo! :))

Check voltages with something like CPUID Hardware Monitor. http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Note how the program shows Current (Value), Minimum and Max for everything. That allows u to easily see if something is up to spec.

GL

Bee_Dee_3_Dee

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it could also be a bad PSU. or maybe better put, it is not a very high quality PSU. (ur PSU is made by Channel Well Technology or CWT and NOT Corsair. i only use a Seasonic PSUs with the Corsair brand name on it; because Seasonic makes some of the best PSUs and Corsair has extended warranties and great phone support; and the one i have is the best PSU imo! :))

Check voltages with something like CPUID Hardware Monitor. http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Note how the program shows Current (Value), Minimum and Max for everything. That allows u to easily see if something is up to spec.

GL
 
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