• Games constantly crashing on Windows 10
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I've been having this problem for some time now. I've tried reformatting, running the game in compatibility mode, reinstalling, downgrading drivers, reinstalling drivers and nothing really seems to work.
What game, and describe the crash + post your full specs here.
Far Cry 4 just crashes after playing for roughly 20 minutes. Witcher 3 is pretty random with the crashes (have logs for that if needed). Metal Gear Solid V: Ground, Sims 4, Binding of Isaac Rebirth all crash pretty randomly too. Specs [img]http://u.cubeupload.com/TheJoker/4wsElA.png[/img]
Any error? Does it crash to desktop or does your pc shut down?
Just crashes to desktop. Doesn't give me any error besides Witcher 3*. Other games that I tested were WoW and Heroes of the Storm. Both seem to crash pretty randomly too. * [quote]ed Engine Crash Log -------------------------------------- Build: Not Set [ Compiled Aug 10 2015 ] Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (3221225477), Error reading location 0xffffffff Crashed Thread: Thread ID: 8528 callstack: Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x1a1949 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x26b3ee - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x2675e8 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x26703b - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x260c0b - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x261219 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x20802d - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x1015b6 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x6d46f4 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0xc32f6 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xdfb62 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0xbdf0a - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xdfe47 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xa56 - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x3882d - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0xe9d - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix4x4<float>::SetIdentity() + 0x123c - <Unknown File>(0) Scaleform::Render::Matrix2x4<float>::Prepend() + 0x21f128 - <Unknown File>(0) BaseThreadInitThunk() + 0x22 - <Unknown File>(0) RtlUserThreadStart() + 0x34 - <Unknown File>(0)[/quote]
Check Event Viewer to see if there are any crash logs relating to the game.
That might actually give us a clue directed at faulty RAM or HDD. Can you remove all but one stick of ram, start to game and see if it still crashes. If it does crash, switch the stick out for a different one and try again. Also run the error checker on the HDD where the game and windows are installed on. (Right mouse button on the hard disk, properties, Tools) And run HD tune and see if it has any health errors: [url]http://www.hdtune.com/[/url]
I take it this is what you want? Faulting application name: FarCry4.exe, version: 0.1.0.1, time stamp: 0x54e37481 Faulting module name: FC64.dll, version: 0.1.0.1, time stamp: 0x54f76c7a Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x0000000000301774 Faulting process id: 0x112c Faulting application start time: 0x01d0e0ee7a8b65aa Faulting application path: D:\Far Cry 4\bin\FarCry4.exe Faulting module path: D:\Far Cry 4\bin\FC64.dll Faulting application name: MgsGroundZeroes.exe, version: 1.0.0.5, time stamp: 0x5507f58d Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.10240.16430, time stamp: 0x55c59f92 Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000ea28c Faulting process id: 0x1b30 Faulting application start time: 0x01d0e0e0103d0b57 Faulting application path: D:\Steam Games\steamapps\common\Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes\MgsGroundZeroes.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Faulting application name: MgsGroundZeroes.exe, version: 1.0.0.5, time stamp: 0x5507f58d Faulting module name: MgsGroundZeroes.exe, version: 1.0.0.5, time stamp: 0x5507f58d Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x00000000011c9349 Faulting process id: 0x1a18 Faulting application start time: 0x01d0e0e2dbc69a3a Faulting application path: D:\Steam Games\steamapps\common\Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes\MgsGroundZeroes.exe Faulting module path: D:\Steam Games\steamapps\common\Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes\MgsGroundZeroes.exe Faulting application name: TS4.exe, version: 1.10.57.1020, time stamp: 0x55b7fbce Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x16343af8 Faulting process id: 0x1d58 Faulting application start time: 0x01d0e0d809ab829a Faulting application path: D:\The Sims 4\Game\Bin\TS4.exe [QUOTE=taipan;48559345]That might actually give us a clue directed at faulty RAM or HDD. Can you remove all but one stick of ram, start to game and see if it still crashes. If it does crash, switch the stick out for a different one and try again. Also run the error checker on the HDD where the game and windows are installed on. (Right mouse button on the hard disk, properties, Tools) And run HD tune and see if it has any health errors: [url]http://www.hdtune.com/[/url][/QUOTE] [quote]Chkdsk was executed in scan mode on a volume snapshot. Checking file system on D: Volume label is Games. Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... 275712 file records processed. File verification completed. 300 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ... 299692 index entries processed. Index verification completed. Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ... Security descriptor verification completed. 11991 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 765916904 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required. 976759807 KB total disk space. 708174952 KB in 198375 files. 51128 KB in 11992 indexes. 1119743 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 267413984 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 244189951 total allocation units on disk. 66853496 allocation units available on disk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ... Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ... Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ... Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required.[/quote] [img]http://u.cubeupload.com/TheJoker/YYRxId.png[/img]
Exception code: 0xc0000005 This usually means bad RAM/HDD like we expected. Doing the tests in my previous post should shed some more light on the situation.
Ran Mem Diagnostic Tools with 15 passes and came up clean. Will do what you said with the ram sticks.
I ran memtest86+ for about 2 hrs and it came up with no errors too.
Yeah, I'm actually having the same exact thing happening to me with Far Cry 4. Same exception code and everything.
[QUOTE=sekuza009;48561985]Yeah, I'm actually having the same exact thing happening to me with Far Cry 4. Same exception code and everything.[/QUOTE] The exception code is pretty meaningless as it's just a reading/writing violation of an invalid memory location. So the cause could be anything from just fault in the programming, to broken graphics drivers or hardware failure.
I dunno, maybe newer games just don't play nice with windows 10.
[QUOTE=TheJoker;48561646]I ran memtest86+ for about 2 hrs and it came up with no errors too.[/QUOTE] Did you also try removing the ram sticks one by one?
At the moment no. I'm in the process of trying to figure out which games crash and which don't.
Sounds driver/hardware related. Haven't had problems here on the same games
Hmm, well I ran Far cry 4 in Windows 8 compatibility mode and it didn't crash. Maybe it's just luck or something, but it's seem to fix it for me.
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