Solved BSOD while playing Witcher 3, BCCode 1e, new ram and SSD

[Pepino123]

I've upgraded my old PC with another stick of ram and an SSD. I've installed windows from scratch on the SSD, noticed huge improvement in my PC's speed so I thought about playing Witcher 3 - maybe it'll work. And it does, beautifully but it crashes with the same error every time - I get BCCode 1e, and the four other lines are just filled with a bunch of "0".



I've checked my ram with memtest86+ overnight (8 hours) - no errors. Test ran with both sticks connected to the PC. I tried playing the game with only one ram stick connected - I get the same crash - I tried both sticks for that.


I've monitored CPU and GPU temperatures (with MSI afterburner) during gameplay - nothing to worry about.


I didn't get any crashes from other games I play so far.

 

[torchwood]

Hi Pepino,

not BSOD expert, but had a quick look.

Seems to be a problem with that new Ramstick, dont think its picking it up.
They should really be matching pairs, or the slot configuration is wrong have a look at the motherboard details ram SLOT setup details

Roy

 

[Pepino123]

There's not much in the manual that would help me - mobo has only two slots for memory and I've bought the same "name" of the stick I have. It looks a little bit different but it has the same specs and it seems to work fine - I also play Kerbal Space Program and the load times with two sticks installed are noticeably faster. It also shows up in bios / hwinfo, etc.



Like I noted - i tried playing Witcher 3 with either stick installed by itself and both gave me the same BSOD. Sometimes just after startup of the game, sometimes after 10-30 minutes.

 

[Pepino123]

I think I found the culprit. I used the WhoCrashed to check crash dump files, one of them suggested something is wrong with my GPU drivers / software so I used the Display Driver Uninstaller and installed them again. Played the game for a couple of hours now without problems.