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BSOD at random intervals when playing Rift
this has been bugging me for months, after a lot of trial and error i decided to ask for help here cause i am desperate on what is causing these bsod's,
it was fine for a long time and then suddenly i get none, one or two bsod's when playing the mmo Rift, i have played many other games without any issues but they were not as graphically intensive as Rift is, included are only 3 minidumps since i removed the previous ones as i thought it was fixed, but then the bsod's came back later on
things i have done so far:
windows memory test - nothing
memtest overnight - nothing
chkdsk /f /r - nothing
sfc /scannow - nothing
OCCT - GPU stresstest - vid mem test - nothing
furmark - eventually turned it off because my cards got too hot
uninstalling unnnecessary programs with revo uninstaller
cleaning the reg with cc cleaner
installing different vidcard drivers (after using driver fusion)
updating bios
updating ssd firmware
windows is being updated once a month
disabling services which are not needed
turning off power saving (or as close as it gets)
disabling all onboard devices in bios (including realtek onboard lan and removing its drivers with driver fusion, bought an intel nic instead)
disabling the microsoft 6to4 adapter, isatap adapter and teledo tunneling service in device manager
disabling high definition audio from nvidia in device manager
some things to add though, i downclock both my vidcards to stock speeds since they get too hot otherwise, now they stay at 75-80° when playing Rift, my memory timings match the recommended ocz timings including voltages (with command rate 2T, can take a screenshot of it if you need it), everything else is at stock speeds
at one point i thought it was Mumble (voice comm) causing it since i had to use a developer snapshot cause the stable version wouldnt run, later i learned that it was caused by a hook my firewall uses (outpost), so removed the hook since i dont use the service that uses it anyway (even though it still shows up in my eventvwr), installed the stable version of mumble without issues since, i disable the realtime protection of my avira antivirus while gaming, even whitelisted Rift in it
i seem to get the same 4-5 different bsod's throughout, after searching google for hours they all come back to the same standard steps to troubleshoot it, but no solution so far
i have tried running Driver Verifier as well, but not always, since it lags the game to a degree i cant be competitive in Rift during raids anymore when running it, and offcourse, the times it does run i dont get any bsod, and the times it didnt run a bsod pops up now and then, sometimes i go a week without one, sometimes its nearly every day, but i usually only get one, two is a rare exception
i saw some drivers being outdated, but not sure if its safe to update, or can be updated at all, hope its more clear to you than it is to me
wall of text i know :) but i try to share everything i have done/experienced so far (might have forgotten something, its been going on for a quite some time now), added the files from the tool
thank you for your time and effort