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BSOD while playing max payne 3 or minecraft
I have a 6 month old gaming rig which runs almost anything flawlessly and I've been playing minecraft for almost the entire 6 months. then about a month ago it started crashing while playing mutliplayer, closing itself and random applications, and occasionally it would BSOD. it continued and got progressively worse. then max payne 3 came out a few days ago and it's one of the most excellently coded PC games I've ever played, and yet I crash at least 5 times a day and get BSOD at least twice a day. it only happens on these 2 games and only when I'm playing multiplayer. neither games are causing too much stress because I've played much more demanding games for much longer periods of time.
things I've tried: did a complete defrag of my entire hardrive and a complete error check of my entire PC which took half a day, uninstalled and wiped all drivers then reinstalled, checked for viruses, restored BIOS to default and also tried about a hundred fixes each for both games.
my specs:
windows 7 64 bit
Radeon HD 5770
AMD Phenom 9850 quad core
8 GB RAM
1.5 TB HDD
I ran a diagnostic program designed specifically for BSODs and it told me that a bunch of different .sys files were responsible for the crashes, including win32k.sys, atikmpag.sys, dxgmms1.sys and ntoskrnl.exe for one of them. a couple were unkown. every crash was caused by one file and usually varying from the last
again, this only happens on multiplayer for both games and they never slow down before the crash. I have a wireless adapter plugged in but I use a wired connection, if that's relevant at all.
I've attached the 3 most recent .DMP files.
I'm not sure if it's related, but after one of the crashes an autoplay window came up for a floppy disk drive that I don't actually have. when I click on it, it says ''please insert a floppy disk drive''. it shows up in my device manager and everything but I don't actually have it.
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Last edited by Bruhmis; 04 Jun 2012 at 14:46.