dwm.exe

Forum discussion tagged with dwm.exe.
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    Question dwm.exe spikes my GPU 3D to 100%

    I’ve tried everthing that is possible. dmw.exe spikes my GPU 3D to 100% at random times (Doesn’t matter what I’m doing)
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    Question Event ID 56 - ACPI 2/dwm.exe randomly shutting off PC when gaming

    I have an intel i9 10850k, Asus RTX 3060ti, Gigabyte Z490 Motherboard, GSkill 32 gb RAM sticks, Corsair power supply. I recently changed the GPU from EVGA 3080 to Asus 3060ti thinking it would resolve this issue. It happens randomly when I game in Valorant, and sometimes with Furmark stress test...
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    Question BSOD every day with different description on Latitude 9420

    Hello, I have DELL LATITUDE 9420, i7, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd. Having BSOD on W10 a switched to W11 with clean install but BSOD appeard the same day after fresh install. Problem is that I get it all thi time with different description. Latest one: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The...
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    Question DWM.exe crashing after Windows Update

    Hello All! I'm running into some difficulty with my computer so I'm going to splurge it all out. Windows 10 Pro: 21H1 CPU: Intel 8700k Motherboard: Asus Maximus Hero X RAM: G-Skill 32GB SSD: 1TB NVME M.2 Samsung Evo 960 PSU: Corsair 750W Gold GPU: GTX 960 / Asus TUF OC RTX 3090 Monitor 1...
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    Question Monitors shut down, gpu fans 100%, faulting application dwm.exe ?

    Hello, recently I've been getting an issue where my monitors randomly shut down, my gpu fans speed to 100% and the only thing that helps is a hard reset. This issue has been happening since windows updated the intel driver (05/03/2021): Intel - System - 2040.100.0.1029 Since then, I installed...
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    Question dwm.exe crashes playing Rocket League

    Hey everyone, I have a bit of a peculiar problem that I'd like to bounce off of the community here. I've been having intermittent issues with dwm.exe crashing, but only while playing the game known as Rocket League. Not often, but it does happen. This results in a black screen that kind of...
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    Question Is my GPU dying or is this something else?

    First things first, my specs: GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080 Ti (EVGA FTW3 ICX) CPU: Intel i7 8700 Memory: 32gb RAM PSU: 850w Corsair TX-M Series TX850M I was playing the new Mount and Blade: Bannerlord game, which I have been doing for the past week with zero issues, except today something...
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    [SOLVED] The reason for constant disk activity?

    Hi! This is driving me nuts. I noticed that my C: drive (SSD) is making a lot of noise like it's writing or reading something almost all the time. The pattern of the noise is something like morse code and the disk is never quiet for more than 5 seconds. With Process Explorer I noticed that the...
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    Question NVIDIA GTX 2080 - Black Screen and Fan Overdrive

    Windows 10 64bit I7-8700k @ 3.7 32 gb ram NVIDIA GTX 2080 8gb Hey everyone. I'm having an issue that is happening intermittently over the last few days. I run a dual monitor set up. I was watching some youtube videos on monitor 2 and my computer all of a sudden blackscreens and the fans on my...
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    Question The DWM process has exited, ID: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti)

    Been having some weird issue lately over the last 2 weeks or so, every now and then, sometimes im gaming sometimes im just googling/or writing this post...my screen suddenly goes black and doesn't register a DP cable, i can still hear things in the background like discord and the game or video...
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    Question Windows Processes "dwm.exe" and "csrss.exe" are causing high GPU usage

    Today I opened Task Manager randomly and noticed that the Desktop Window Manager and Client Server Runtime Process were using a high amount of GPU. MY GPU usage sits at 0-1% pretty much all of the time (while I'm not playing games), but those specific processes were bringing it up to 10-35%. It...