- Sep 1, 2015
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The title pretty much covers it: I've been putting up with these random crashes for maybe a year or more (computer is around 2-3 years old now). I've since bought a new video card and had the same issue and recently completely reformatted my harddrive
The games that have been crashing run the gamut from Just Cause 2, to X-Com (the new one), to MGSV and even low-intensity stuff like Darkest Dungeon. The crash is pretty much always to desktop (with the odd hard lock), but can happen anywhere between 5 min or 5 hours of starting the game in question.
This is really bumming me out and I believe it's likely a hardware problem, since it's happening across lots of different types of games and remains an issue even after a total scrub-down of my harddrive.
System specs:
Processor - i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz
GPU - GTX 970
RAM - 4x 4GB sticks of I can't recall, but could check if people think it would help
PSU - 650W
MB - ASUStek - P8 Z77-V LE
HDD - x1SSD with OS on it and a standard HDD with all my other files and games on it.
OS - happened both in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 64bit
Event log only ever points to the games .exe file whenever the crashes occur, so I've got no other specific things to go after as far as I know.
Drivers and windows were completely updated along with reformatting.
I feel a bit stuck and was hoping someone could help me track down the source of these crashes. I'm just not sure where to even begin! Please let me know if more information would be helpful and if so, what info in particular.
Thank you in advance to any souls kind enough to help me out!
The games that have been crashing run the gamut from Just Cause 2, to X-Com (the new one), to MGSV and even low-intensity stuff like Darkest Dungeon. The crash is pretty much always to desktop (with the odd hard lock), but can happen anywhere between 5 min or 5 hours of starting the game in question.
This is really bumming me out and I believe it's likely a hardware problem, since it's happening across lots of different types of games and remains an issue even after a total scrub-down of my harddrive.
System specs:
Processor - i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz
GPU - GTX 970
RAM - 4x 4GB sticks of I can't recall, but could check if people think it would help
PSU - 650W
MB - ASUStek - P8 Z77-V LE
HDD - x1SSD with OS on it and a standard HDD with all my other files and games on it.
OS - happened both in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 64bit
Event log only ever points to the games .exe file whenever the crashes occur, so I've got no other specific things to go after as far as I know.
Drivers and windows were completely updated along with reformatting.
I feel a bit stuck and was hoping someone could help me track down the source of these crashes. I'm just not sure where to even begin! Please let me know if more information would be helpful and if so, what info in particular.
Thank you in advance to any souls kind enough to help me out!
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