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BSOD playing Neverwinter, error 0x00000116
Hi folks,
As of recently, I keep getting BSODs - B as in "Black", not blue, mind you - playing Neverwinter (The online version developed by Cryptic Studios). The screen randomly turns black all of a sudden and the sound freezes a few seconds afterwards leaving me with no option but to hard reset my computer.
I googled the error "0x00000116" but any suggested steps I found couldn't solve the problem for me. Here's a list of what I already tried. I just came back from a 1 week vacation so this is just what I recall off the top of my head. Anyways, here's what I tried so far:
- MemTest for several hours - no errors occured
- Installed newest as well as legacy graphic drivers with and w/o DDU, with and w/o nVidia Experience - no success
- SSD Tweaks. I got this computer from a friend a while ago and put in an SSD cause they're so awesome . So after a few weeks of using the computer some crashes occured that I could fix with SSD tweaks. I don't remember the details but I could search my browser history and provide more info if needed.
Some more notes:
- This so far only happened while playing this particular game and ONCE while randomly browsing the interwebz (I'm not sure if that particular occasion was the same error, though. Didn't bother to have a look at the event log back then). I play this game on the lowest settings possible in order to have a constant very high framerate. The GPU and CPU load should be pretty low since it also runs smoothly on highest settings. Also the fan noise level is quite low when I run the game on lowest settings which sort of underlines my point.
- Sometimes I can play hours over hours without a crash, sometimes I keep getting crashes a few minutes in. I can't really see a pattern there.
- I played the Metro games for several hours straight without any crashes whatsoever. On very high settings. Boy my machine got loud then! But addmitedly, that was quite a few weeks back and at a time where I didn't play NW and before I had these issues. I'll try to run it for a few hours and see if I get the same BSOD.
- Same with Borderlands 2.
That's all that I can think of for now. If you need more information that is neither provided in this post nor the attached zip file, please let me know.
Thanks in advance, I hope one of you guys has a solution at hand. This is getting really frustrating .
Dave
Last edited by tkwondave; 29 May 2015 at 03:09.