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MrBones
Yesterday, August 5 2020, I installed the Windows 10 Update #2004 (May) and ever since then I have been having stabilization issues with my computer.
I have 3 hard drives:
- C: 512Gb m.2 NVME
- D: 512Gb SSD drive for games
- G: 256Gb SSD drive for games
I keep my Steam games installed on G, and Modern Warfare installed on D. After the update (which everything seemed successful) I would go to play Rocket League from Steam and the game would just crash straight to desktop in the middle of playing with no warnings. The error logs of the game showed some graphics related issues.
In addition to Rocket League crashing a few other weird things were happening on my PC. I have Malwarebytes installed and when trying to close it, it brings up a Windows Access dialog asking you to confirm you want to allow settings to be changed. I was unable to select 'Yes'. The 'No' checkbox would be highlighted and I couldn't actually click 'Yes'.
After a few manual hardware reboots, I was able to finally able to click on those access elevation dialogs. As a result I was able to completely reinstall my graphics card drivers.
After reinstalling the graphics card drivers, and disabling all in-game/desktop overlays (Discord gaming overlay, nvidia geforce experience) I tried Rocket League again. The game still crashed to desktop frequently.
At this point I completely uninstalled Rocket League and then redownloaded 10Gb and reinstalled it. After rebooting my system voluntarily I decided to give it a shot again. Still crash to desktop.
I decided to try another game. I booted up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the game would just freeze in the main menus on startup. And error dialog was displayed and researching the error message had people from Reddit saying the only thing that fixed it for them was a complete reinstall of the game.
Seeing how a reinstall of Rocket League didn't help my experience I was hesitant, but still decided to uninstall all 215Gb of Modern Warfare and attempt to reinstall it.
Well, my computer never lives long enough to download and install the game. The system just bluescreens when downloading and then when attempting to verify my partial download that got interrupted from the sudden restart.
I have booted into recovery mode, and rolled back the Windows Update 2004 install but my system is still super unstable and restarting all the time. I came back to my desktop in the morning after sleeping and it was fully restarted =(
At this point I'm not really sure what to do. I'm beyond frustrated with this. Thankfully I was able to get this post written before the next crash. I can't remember all the specific error codes I got at the various blue screens, but I will try to log them as I see/remember them here.
My BIOS did an update 2-3 days prior to the Windows Update and I didn't notice any stability issues until the Windows Update.
Blue Screen Error Codes I've Gotten:
- CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED - Bug Check Code: 0x000000ef - August 5, 2020 11:43pm
- KMODE_EXCePTION_NOT_HANDLED - Bug Check Code: 0x00000001e - August 6, 2020 12:15am
- IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - Bug Check Code: 0x0000000a - August 6, 2020 12:49am
- PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA - Bug Check Code: 0x00000050 - August 6, 2020 1:24am
- DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION - Bug Check Code: 0x00000133 - August 6, 2020 8:40am
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I have 3 hard drives:
- C: 512Gb m.2 NVME
- D: 512Gb SSD drive for games
- G: 256Gb SSD drive for games
I keep my Steam games installed on G, and Modern Warfare installed on D. After the update (which everything seemed successful) I would go to play Rocket League from Steam and the game would just crash straight to desktop in the middle of playing with no warnings. The error logs of the game showed some graphics related issues.
In addition to Rocket League crashing a few other weird things were happening on my PC. I have Malwarebytes installed and when trying to close it, it brings up a Windows Access dialog asking you to confirm you want to allow settings to be changed. I was unable to select 'Yes'. The 'No' checkbox would be highlighted and I couldn't actually click 'Yes'.
After a few manual hardware reboots, I was able to finally able to click on those access elevation dialogs. As a result I was able to completely reinstall my graphics card drivers.
After reinstalling the graphics card drivers, and disabling all in-game/desktop overlays (Discord gaming overlay, nvidia geforce experience) I tried Rocket League again. The game still crashed to desktop frequently.
At this point I completely uninstalled Rocket League and then redownloaded 10Gb and reinstalled it. After rebooting my system voluntarily I decided to give it a shot again. Still crash to desktop.
I decided to try another game. I booted up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the game would just freeze in the main menus on startup. And error dialog was displayed and researching the error message had people from Reddit saying the only thing that fixed it for them was a complete reinstall of the game.
Seeing how a reinstall of Rocket League didn't help my experience I was hesitant, but still decided to uninstall all 215Gb of Modern Warfare and attempt to reinstall it.
Well, my computer never lives long enough to download and install the game. The system just bluescreens when downloading and then when attempting to verify my partial download that got interrupted from the sudden restart.
I have booted into recovery mode, and rolled back the Windows Update 2004 install but my system is still super unstable and restarting all the time. I came back to my desktop in the morning after sleeping and it was fully restarted =(
At this point I'm not really sure what to do. I'm beyond frustrated with this. Thankfully I was able to get this post written before the next crash. I can't remember all the specific error codes I got at the various blue screens, but I will try to log them as I see/remember them here.
My BIOS did an update 2-3 days prior to the Windows Update and I didn't notice any stability issues until the Windows Update.
Blue Screen Error Codes I've Gotten:
- CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED - Bug Check Code: 0x000000ef - August 5, 2020 11:43pm
- KMODE_EXCePTION_NOT_HANDLED - Bug Check Code: 0x00000001e - August 6, 2020 12:15am
- IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - Bug Check Code: 0x0000000a - August 6, 2020 12:49am
- PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA - Bug Check Code: 0x00000050 - August 6, 2020 1:24am
- DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION - Bug Check Code: 0x00000133 - August 6, 2020 8:40am
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