BSOD memory management during gaming

Diagnostic Test

 DRIVER VERIFIER

Driver Verifier will stress your drivers and cause BSODs if any fail. Follow this tutorial to enable/disable it. Driver Verifier - Enable and Disable

Enable Driver Verifier but only enable these options:

• Standard settings and IRP logging step 3.
• Don't enable Force Pending I/O Requests

   Warning

Make a System Restore point before enabling Driver Verifier.

   Note

Your system will act very sluggishly while DV is enabled, this is normal as your drivers will be being subjected to heavy testing in order to make them crash.

Post any resulting dump files.

Give it another 24 hours at the most, if it doesn't BSOD in that time then disable it and we'll go from there.

Excellent, we have a culprit or three.

One

 REALTEK GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVER

Your Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver is causing issues. Check for an updated version here.

Code:

fffff880`0296cf88  fffff880`04890d53Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\Rt64win7.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for Rt64win7.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for Rt64win7.sys
 Rt64win7+0x7d53

0: kd> lmvm Rt64win7
start             end                 module name
fffff880`04889000 fffff880`04971000   Rt64win7 T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: Rt64win7.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\Rt64win7.sys
    Image name: Rt64win7.sys
    Timestamp:        Tue Jun 17 12:59:14 2014 (53A02D92)
    CheckSum:         000F561E
    ImageSize:        000E8000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Two

 ATI DRIVER

Your ATI driver has been flagged. Check for the lates version here.

   Note

When installing choose 'Advanced' or 'Custom' (whichever option is available, just not Express) and uncheck everything except the video driver.

Code:

fffff880`0296c798  fffff880`1323f947Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmdag.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for atikmdag.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for atikmdag.sys
 atikmdag+0x181947

0: kd> lmvm atikmdag
start             end                 module name
fffff880`130be000 fffff880`14342000   atikmdag T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: atikmdag.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmdag.sys
    Image name: atikmdag.sys
    Timestamp:        Fri Nov 21 02:30:27 2014 (546EA3C3)
    CheckSum:         0121F198
    ImageSize:        01284000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4

Three

 AVAST

Avast is causing issues. Uninstall Avast and install MS Security Essentials and MalwareBytes.

   Note

Make sure you uncheck the 'Enable Free Trial' box when installing.

Code:

fffff880`0296c608  fffff880`069d2fd8Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\aswMonFlt.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for aswMonFlt.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for aswMonFlt.sys
 aswMonFlt+0x1fd8

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