All games crashing Windows 7

Jkray97 · Feb 12, 2015

I recently built a new rig. The specs are:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 660 3gb vram
PSU: Corsair CX750M
Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming
HDD: WD Blue 1tb

All my games are crashing. League of Legends crashes and says "Error 183: Failed to create memory dump" and Smite just quits. No error or anything. Already ran sfc command in command prompt. Could this be my OS throttling me or what? I run Windows 7 Ultimate, but it's 32 bit and I have 8 gigs of ram. I ran 3DMark and the graphics card held up fine and received a good score as well. Here was event viewer says about the most recent Smite crash

Faulting application name: Smite.exe, version: 2.0.2573.3, time stamp: 0x54d911df
Faulting module name: Smite.exe, version: 2.0.2573.3, time stamp: 0x54d911df
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x010294a9
Faulting process id: 0x1510
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0473bc77920fb
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Hi-Rez Studios\HiRezGames\smite\binaries\Win32\Smite.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Hi-Rez Studios\HiRezGames\smite\binaries\Win32\Smite.exe
Report Id: 70e6edae-b32f-11e4-977d-d8cb8a1b2b19

USAFRet · Feb 12, 2015

First, your Windows 7 32bit is only using ~3.5GB of your 8GB.
To use the full 8GB, you need a 64bit OS.

Jkray97 · Feb 12, 2015

USAFRet :

I know, but that doesn't quite solve my issue. What I want to know is if it is because I'm running a 32 bit operating system has opposed to 64. For awhile I speculated that my graphics card (which i purchased new yesterday) was the issue, but surely if it was I would have found out during my 3DMark run correct?

USAFRet · Feb 12, 2015

Did you try reinstalling the game?

royalcrown · Feb 12, 2015

Maybe your games are crashing when a particular ram address is being accessed (bad ram stick). Try running it with just one stick, then add another and so on. If it works fine then you plug one in and it crashes, swap that one out. I had stick causing a no boot and just moving them around fixed it (my guess is a contact point in the ram or slot went bad and reseating and moving it fixed it). Most motherboards can also "sort of" test it from the bios nowadays. Never hurts to check the simple stuff first.

Jkray97 · Feb 12, 2015

royalcrown :

I did a RAM check with windows but perhaps you're right. Will try that. and uninstalling the games which I didn't think of in the first place

royalcrown · Feb 12, 2015

Windows or rather the post process does a"quick and dirty" test, more specialized software will test it more thoroughly. Last I checked (years ago) you really need a special tester to test it off the machine to really know for sure. However, if it was really bad or unstable, doing what I wrote might catch it. Let us know if you find what it is. Also, are you running your ram at stock speeds ? Sometimes some boards used to have to run the ram slower if all ram banks were filled. I havent heard of anything like that in awhile, and something like that is usually listed in the mobo manual. Good luck on your bub hunting.

Jkray97 :

Jkray97 · Feb 13, 2015

royalcrown :

Windows or rather the post process does a"quick and dirty" test, more specialized software will test it more thoroughly. Last I checked (years ago) you really need a special tester to test it off the machine to really know for sure. However, if it was really bad or unstable, doing what I wrote might catch it. Let us know if you find what it is. Also, are you running your ram at stock speeds ? Sometimes some boards used to have to run the ram slower if all ram banks were filled. I havent heard of anything like that in awhile, and something like that is usually listed in the mobo manual. Good luck on your bub hunting.

Jkray97 :

I found the issue my good sir. The game I was testing with (Smite) apparently requires 3gigs of RAM to run. Well when I play MOBA's I enjoy having iTunes or Pandora instead of the game's music. So I was exceeding my "max" RAM limit despite actually having 8gigs because I'm running a 32 bit operating system, so my computer was closing the application that drew the most/all of the RAM

royalcrown · Feb 14, 2015

I've never heard of it actually closing an app, interesting. Check out this link on using more ram on your current machine under 32 bit windows...maybe it'll let you run all your stuff at the same time.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366796%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Jkray97 :

royalcrown :

I found the issue my good sir. The game I was testing with (Smite) apparently requires 3gigs of RAM to run. Well when I play MOBA's I enjoy having iTunes or Pandora instead of the game's music. So I was exceeding my "max" RAM limit despite actually having 8gigs because I'm running a 32 bit operating system, so my computer was closing the application that drew the most/all of the RAM

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