Need help with constant game crashes

gaz1997

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I need some serious help. first these are my PC specs.

Intel core i5-3570k 3.4-GHz (not overclocked)
16GB of RAM on 4 sticks.
Windows 10 (recently installed)
64-bit operating/x64-based processor.
Nvidia GTX ASUS OC 1060 3GB

AVG anti virus.

Having to use a TV mounted on my wall with a HMDI cable for a monitor.

recently i got my pc fixed after it sitting in the corner after it refused to work, now that i got a new graphics card put in (one above) and had everything checked out by my local tech guy. I'm till facing problems.

The games I usually play are Fallout 4, Arma 3, Dayz standalone, War thunder, space engineers. yes everytime i try to play these games for longer than 30mins-1 hour, they crash, some barely lasting more than five minutes, and its not always the same crash.

the crashes range from referenced memory with different number codes, the access violation, no more or no less crash, and sometimes they just crash to the desktop without any warning or why they did and sometimes its a blue screen of death all together.

No matter what i do nothing seems to work, I update all my games whenever updates are released, all my hardware is up to date, i've tried different version of Nvidia drivers but all the ones i've tried still have crashes, I've stress tested my GPU with furmark for more than 30 odd minutes and its barely went over 80 degrees celsius,

I thought that when i got my pc back from the shop and upgrading to windows 10 would help fix it but that hasnt done anything either, I check my games in steam with the cache checker, i've sfc/scaned it and that wields nothing, I've running games on lower setting and even defragmenting yet nothing works, my local pc guy who is a saint to me says it could be just that the game updates are broken or incompatible.

some games i've tried with and without mods yet they still crash either way.

plus some people say they you can also increase you're Vram but i dont know how to do that, my pc works fine using it normally like internet, video pictures and itunes but games just dont want to cooperate.

can someone please help me and give some advice? I'm not exactly made off money to go out buying a brand new PC or new parts (even worse when you have no job) and I've already put nearly 1K£ into this thing from new parts to fixes.






 
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You should never mix RAM kits especially from differing manufacturers. Mixing kits will eventually have issues.
If your games are RAM intensive AAA games then you should have a min 16GB single either 2x8 or 4x4 kit selected from the MB QVL that have been tested.
Testing single modules in different RAM slots and switching them around is to determine if any RAM slots are playing up as there may be contamination or a dead slot. It is only for testing and not for you to run your games.
Hi gaz1997 :)

Without having to spend anything gaz1997, run a series of stress tests to help determine the issue.
The issue may be Windows driver related but your test indicate no corrupted files at least.
It may be a simple stability issue (Bios Tweaks or a Bios update) or an intermittent hardware failure so stress test to find the culprit.

Download HWMonitor and Aida64 and put them side by side on your desktop.
In Aida64, go to the Tools menu and run the stress test. Check boxes for CPU, FPU and Cache only.
Other subsystem tests can be done separately.
Run the test for 10mins whilst observing your temperatures and stop the test if temps reach 80C.
Take screen shots at the 10 min mark.
In HWMonitor, I want to see all rail voltages in HWMonitor and temperatures with 100% Utilization on all cores.
Use your favorite file host or IMIGUR to host the screen shots. Once image files are uploaded to IMIGUR, go to your Images and obtain the BBurl as a link here for analysis.

From this analysis, I will get a good idea if the PSU is doing its job and general stability.

Please list the part No of your RAM and the MB spec.?
 

gaz1997

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Feb 6, 2017
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aparently It says I need to buy it, and im not in a position to be buying new things for my pc at the moment or programs that i know nothing about or can trust.

If you can provide a download that is free otherwise, im pretty much stuck here.

I did use the pc built in memory tester, i let it do its thing and it said it would give me the results when it restarted and returns to the desktop but it gave me nothing.
 


There are free programs you can use and AIDA64 is one. It is trial software for one month so hopefully you should have it sorted by then. As far as I know there is a free edition of Memtest86. Try here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/memtest86.html
 

gaz1997

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Feb 6, 2017
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Okay, I've been testing at 2 of my 4 ram sticks with memtest86 now that i got the thing to work, I testest my two newer ones that i bought withht the 2 that originally came with my pc (which i have yet to test) so far i have tested my new ones with memtest over 8 passes on both which took hours (obviously) and neither of them came up with any faults, right now both of theses 2 are in my pc and are acknowledged by my system as 8Gb of RAM, I chose Dayz standalone as my test bed but beforehand, i checked on updates for my pc as a whole, Nvidia drivers, checked steam cache and defragmented.

and yet i still got a referenced memory crash 0x0000000000D201E2 by 0x0000000000000000

can someone seriously please tell me what is going on.... and why things still crash...
 
OK so your ram modules have passed Memtest86 however I'm trying to figure out what is actually installed to the MB ram slots when you have the crash.
Just have one module in the first slot and test to see if it still crashes.

If you have all slots occupied with different ram kits then this may be the issue. Make sure the modules are from the same kit and test each kit separately.

If all RAM modules test OK and a single module in first slot works but not with two then the problem may be the MB RAM slot.
 

gaz1997

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Feb 6, 2017
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these are the RAM sticks i have, I have 2 Fury HYPER X 4GB ram cards (tested with memtest) and the other 2 are Corsair Vengeance sticks both 4Gb RAM (untested ones) I've had these essentially since i bought this pc and they've worked fine untill last year when i started getting these constant crashes, I've tried with just the hypers and they crashed, my game to desktop, I have for slots and im only using two of them and its set up so i have 1 stick in the 1st and 3rd slot which is the way my local pc tech has said they should be in,

as for testing only if things crash with one slot, Im not sure if the games i have can only run with 4GBs of ram, my computer right now says its using according to my task manager 3.8 GB ram out of 8GB just on the desktop and doing nothing, (thats like pc basic systems, antivirus and Nvidia doing its thing) thats because I've just swapped to my older sticks to test something.
 
You should never mix RAM kits especially from differing manufacturers. Mixing kits will eventually have issues.
If your games are RAM intensive AAA games then you should have a min 16GB single either 2x8 or 4x4 kit selected from the MB QVL that have been tested.
Testing single modules in different RAM slots and switching them around is to determine if any RAM slots are playing up as there may be contamination or a dead slot. It is only for testing and not for you to run your games.
 
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