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Started by ElectricSquid | | 9 answers
Games crash mid-game
I just built a new Gaming PC and all the games i play the games will crash. In Battlefield 4 it will take me to the desktop and i cant open the game back up. In Skyrim, and CS:GO it will freeze and the currently playing sounds will get stuck on a loop and its very annoying. It happens unexpectedly and i am very unsure about the cause.
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Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Motherboard
Intel i5-4690 CPU
Geforce GTX 660 GPU
Patriot Viper Xxtreme 8gb (2x4) RAM
WD 1TB Hard drive
Solid Gear 850W PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
LG Optical Drive
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June 13, 2014 9:21:55 AM

ElectricSquid said:
I have tried a clean install of the drivers and it didnt work. I dont have any more money to get a new GPU so i cant try another one out. I think the Nvidia drivers are conflicting with it somehow.


It's either a bad gpu or psu you are looking at here. I would suggest you get the gpu tested with another power supply and if it still buggers around then it's the card else it could be the power supply. If you don't have a spare just ask a friend or take it to a computer shop just to test it
June 13, 2014 6:38:32 AM

I have tried a clean install of the drivers and it didnt work. I dont have any more money to get a new GPU so i cant try another one out. I think the Nvidia drivers are conflicting with it somehow.
June 12, 2014 10:26:59 PM

Well that's narrowed it down to your graphics card :) 
It sounds like the Psu may not be giving enough clean power to the gpu, or possibly driver issues. Have you done a clean install of the latest nvidia drivers? It may be best to try another gpu on your system fot a couple hours if you can. then you'd know if you need to RMA the gpu :) 
June 12, 2014 7:23:57 PM

I did some testing and found that the main cause of the game crash is a driver named "nvlddmkm"
June 12, 2014 8:44:47 AM

Scremin34Egl said:
If you don't mind, It could help if we knew the exact name and model of your power supply. Just slide open your case and check

Just edited the the post

June 12, 2014 8:26:42 AM

If you don't mind, It could help if we knew the exact name and model of your power supply. Just slide open your case and check
June 12, 2014 8:20:39 AM

shame :/ 
try going into 'event viewer' then under windows logs there will be system, in there it should hopefully tell you which driver is causing the errors
June 12, 2014 8:18:46 AM

Alex Kelly said:
You spent too much on the Cpu and not enough on the Gpu imo, but that's not the problem...
I had the same problem in Bioshock and CSGO, uninstalling all Nvidia software except the driver completely fixed mine, and to test if that will fix it, close all Nvidia processes in task manager and see if you can play a few rounds of CS.
Also, are you overclocked at all?

That didn't fix the problem. And no I am not overclocking at all.

June 12, 2014 8:07:34 AM

You spent too much on the Cpu and not enough on the Gpu imo, but that's not the problem...
I had the same problem in Bioshock and CSGO, uninstalling all Nvidia software except the driver completely fixed mine, and to test if that will fix it, close all Nvidia processes in task manager and see if you can play a few rounds of CS.
Also, are you overclocked at all?

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