Windows 11 PC freezes and crashes with blue screen error: Stop Code: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION while using 3D software

[JackMerton]

Recently my PC, running Windows 11 has started to freeze and then completely crash whenever I use three different pieces of software: Blender and Adobe Substance Painter while 3D modelling and when I play the game Baldurs Gate 3. I receive a blue screen with the error: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION, as seen in the image below.This only happens when using the three programs mentioned above, often occurring when I move the camera view in these programs, even while modelling in the least-intensive display view in Blender, so I'm not totally convinced the issue is the program being too intensive.My syste

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