Guggleywubbins
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Been having this issue in Deadlock. There's something about this game and Dota) that causes my GPU to generate some fatal error and not only crashes the game, but my entire computer. What's more, it only happens in specific matches. Once a crash happens in that match, I'll crash and keep crashing several more times during that game, but not others. One such game happened tonight: Match 99,980. I was playing Lady Geist and crashed nearly on repeat until the game was over.
Usually the crash causes the screen to freeze-frame, while the game sound still is going on behind it. I can hear my friends/teammates on Discord talking, but my microphone is no longer recording. Sometimes part of the screen turns magenta like some garish Instagram filter. It stays in this weird suspended state for 5 to 15 seconds before the screen goes black and the computer reboots. At no point does the temperature of the CPU or GPU go over 78°C during this time.
I've tried to figure out what the exact source of the error is, but have been unable to. The closest I can find is a Windows Event Log error that says:
I'd be happy to submit my crash minidumps somewhere if it'd be useful. It's been happening with Source 2 games for me for a few months now. My computer specs are as follows:
Usually the crash causes the screen to freeze-frame, while the game sound still is going on behind it. I can hear my friends/teammates on Discord talking, but my microphone is no longer recording. Sometimes part of the screen turns magenta like some garish Instagram filter. It stays in this weird suspended state for 5 to 15 seconds before the screen goes black and the computer reboots. At no point does the temperature of the CPU or GPU go over 78°C during this time.
I've tried to figure out what the exact source of the error is, but have been unable to. The closest I can find is a Windows Event Log error that says:
The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device ROOT\WINDOWSHELLOFACESOFTWAREDRIVER\0000.
, which makes me think it's some kind of kernel panic. I've used DDU tool to manually uninstall my Nvidia graphics driver and try both the newest and older, more stable versions, but none of the dozen I've tried have worked so far. I thought it might be a bad GPU, but it still happened even after RMAing my GPU on the new one.I'd be happy to submit my crash minidumps somewhere if it'd be useful. It's been happening with Source 2 games for me for a few months now. My computer specs are as follows:
- CPU: Intel i7-12700F
- GPU:Nvidia 3080 FE
- Driver: 537.58
- RAM: 32GB
- OS: Windows 11 Pro (23H2)
- Motherboard: ASRock H670M-ITX/ax
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