- Oct 15, 2014
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Greetings,
I know this is late but I have been having trouble with my gaming PC for quite a while now (a little more than half a year ago, but started getting really bad ever since a month or two).
Basically, when I run most of my games they freeze and crash shortly afterwards. Steam games like Armello, Divinity 2 Original Sin, Final Fantasy XIV, Civilization 6, etc. A lot of 3D games seem to have this issue, although not a rule, apparently (crashed on Dead Cells a few times for some reason, a "2D" pixel game).
According to a private Discord channel, I began complaining about these crashes since October 2016. They used to happen only while playing Final Fantasy XIV, then a few other games like Warhammer Total War; I cant remember exactly if I had issues with other games as well, but those 2 were the most noteworthy.
When this problem began, I'd get an error message from FFXIV stating that it was a "Fatal DirectX error":
Screenie here
Then, over the past few months more games added to the list, like I said, Warhammer TW would just crash on a few battles and send me to the desktop.
Oddly enough, before the crash happens, the screen just "freezes". I can still hear the sound of the cursor interacting with the UI, or movement from my characters happening in the "background", music, etc. Doesn't loop. Then it stops, crashes and sends me to the desktop; sometimes there is an error message, sometimes nothing. Depends on the game.
A month or two ago the problem started getting awful, it wasn't just FF crashing but also other games which would use less resources like Armello, for example. Same symptoms: freeze, sounds and interactions fine, then crash. According to Armello devs the problem is DirectX as well. I'm assuming most other games crash because of the same reason.
My specs:
Windows 10 Home Edition
AMD FX 8350 8 Core, Black Edition
8 GB RAM
EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB
What I've tried already:
- Reformating my system a few times.
- Rolling back on drivers and even Windows (back to 7) (uninstalled drivers with DDU on Safe Mode)
- Cleaning the PC and removing most of the dust.
- Reinstalling the games I'm having errors with.
- Bought a new fan in case its overheating. (GPU reaches 80°C or a bit more on load).
Screenie here
- Wiped data completely on partitions when I reinstalled Windows.
- HDD scan.
Screenie here
- FurMark tests after reinstalling drivers and stuff. (FurMark crashes after a little while; not sure if its due to temperatures rising or something else)
Screenie here
I ignored this issue for a long while because I thought it was my PC not being able to handle the games I played or the fact that it happened mostly on FF, so I thought it was the game. Now I can barely play anything comfortably and is driving me to wits' end.
Could this be caused by a dying GPU? Could it be due to the PSU? Does it make sense for the games to apparently crash due to DirectX when, in fact, its a hardware issue?
Curiously enough Witcher 3, which is much more intensive does not crash on me for some reason.
Any help would me much appreciated,
Thanks.
I know this is late but I have been having trouble with my gaming PC for quite a while now (a little more than half a year ago, but started getting really bad ever since a month or two).
Basically, when I run most of my games they freeze and crash shortly afterwards. Steam games like Armello, Divinity 2 Original Sin, Final Fantasy XIV, Civilization 6, etc. A lot of 3D games seem to have this issue, although not a rule, apparently (crashed on Dead Cells a few times for some reason, a "2D" pixel game).
According to a private Discord channel, I began complaining about these crashes since October 2016. They used to happen only while playing Final Fantasy XIV, then a few other games like Warhammer Total War; I cant remember exactly if I had issues with other games as well, but those 2 were the most noteworthy.
When this problem began, I'd get an error message from FFXIV stating that it was a "Fatal DirectX error":
Screenie here
Then, over the past few months more games added to the list, like I said, Warhammer TW would just crash on a few battles and send me to the desktop.
Oddly enough, before the crash happens, the screen just "freezes". I can still hear the sound of the cursor interacting with the UI, or movement from my characters happening in the "background", music, etc. Doesn't loop. Then it stops, crashes and sends me to the desktop; sometimes there is an error message, sometimes nothing. Depends on the game.
A month or two ago the problem started getting awful, it wasn't just FF crashing but also other games which would use less resources like Armello, for example. Same symptoms: freeze, sounds and interactions fine, then crash. According to Armello devs the problem is DirectX as well. I'm assuming most other games crash because of the same reason.
My specs:
Windows 10 Home Edition
AMD FX 8350 8 Core, Black Edition
8 GB RAM
EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB
What I've tried already:
- Reformating my system a few times.
- Rolling back on drivers and even Windows (back to 7) (uninstalled drivers with DDU on Safe Mode)
- Cleaning the PC and removing most of the dust.
- Reinstalling the games I'm having errors with.
- Bought a new fan in case its overheating. (GPU reaches 80°C or a bit more on load).
Screenie here
- Wiped data completely on partitions when I reinstalled Windows.
- HDD scan.
Screenie here
- FurMark tests after reinstalling drivers and stuff. (FurMark crashes after a little while; not sure if its due to temperatures rising or something else)
Screenie here
I ignored this issue for a long while because I thought it was my PC not being able to handle the games I played or the fact that it happened mostly on FF, so I thought it was the game. Now I can barely play anything comfortably and is driving me to wits' end.
Could this be caused by a dying GPU? Could it be due to the PSU? Does it make sense for the games to apparently crash due to DirectX when, in fact, its a hardware issue?
Curiously enough Witcher 3, which is much more intensive does not crash on me for some reason.
Any help would me much appreciated,
Thanks.
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