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BSOD playing Dark Souls, error 0x00000124
Greetings, forum people.
Hopefully, someone can help me with this issue and hopefully I'm doing this right.
I've been experiencing Blue Screens ever since I've started playing Dark Souls. They only happen with this game and only when certain particle effects appear (although somewhat randomly; one effect may cause the BSoD once and then not again the next time it happens).
I can sometimes play the game for 3-4 hours with not even a lag, other times I play for five minutes and it explodes on me.
What happens exactly is that the game freezes for a split-second, then the last bit of sound played starts looping (kind of a stuttering noise) and I get vertical stripes on my screen. Following that, Windows reboots.
Before I take any drastic measures (like exchanging hardware), maybe someone can pinpoint the actual problem for me.
I'm quite computer illiterate so I might be missing something obvious, but I can follow basic instructions.
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Hardware:
AMD Radeon HD 7770 1GB
AMD FX-6300 @3.5 GHz
2x 4GB DDR3 RAM
500GB WD5000AAKS-60WWPA0 HDD
400 Watt be quiet! Power Non-Modular 80+ Bronze
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What I've tried:
SeaTools, HD Tune, chdsk
memtest86+ over night twice
Prime95 + FurMark simultaneously for 1 hour
OCCT, all tests for 20min - 1 hour
sfc /scannow
> none of these showed any errors
updated/re-installed GPU + audio drivers
scanned with MalwareBytes AntiMalware + avast
verified game files, un-installed and re-installed game
played around with all the in-game settings (of which there aren't many in DS anyway) + various resolutions
with and without CCC/RadeonPro
with only Steam (necessarily) running alongside the game
no overheating according to HWMonitor
no overclocking
no massive dust collection inside case
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Excuse the long-ish post. Just trying to give as much information as possible. + DM Log Collector File.
Side note: I've set Windows to not automatically restart when BSoD occurs, yet it always does. Why is that?