All games suddenly crashing..

[ravensfan852]

In the past couple of days I've had an issue of all of my games on the PC crashing. Everything was working fine and just suddenly started to crash. I actually had a pre order on Unity so I thought something just started going wrong, but after trying a few other games I can't get anything to work. I know a common theme in two games I can get to start (only to crash a few seconds in game) have a lot of flickering in the surrounding graphics of the game. I don't even know where to begin with this. I've uninstalled drivers and updated and all. That's about the only step I knew to try. Any help??

Also, a couple of times (only on one game) I get a notice message that says "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered."

When this started happening I hadn't made any changes to my computer. It actually started in the middle of a session one night. As I said, I was on Unity at the time and had logged out to watch a show and tried to log in later and that's when the crashing started.

 

[bgunner]

Have you installed any OCing programs?
Have you overclocked your GPU?

 

[ravensfan852]

The only Overclocking programs I have are the ones that installed with the card on startup after building the computer. I haven't messed with any of it or overclocked anything.

*ASUS GPU Tweak is the program.

 

[bgunner]

OK this may not help but it wont hurt either. Try uninstalling GPU tweak. and try playing a game to see if it crashes again. The message you got that the "Video driver has stooped and has recovered" only shows for a few reasons. BY un installing this program we totally eliminate and issue with OCing or programs related to it.

this error shows up for the following reasons: Unstable Over clock, Corrupted driver, bad GPU, unstable system Over clock.

What GPU do you have and what driver version are you using?

 

[ravensfan852]

No luck there. They're still crashing.

 

[bgunner]

What GPU do you have and what driver are you using?

Also is the whole PC crashing or just the games? You can look in event viewer to see if there is any major issues being reported other than the games crashing. To find this just type in the run box without quotes "Event Viewer" and hit enter. This part of windows takes a while to fully load to be patent with it starting up.

 

[ravensfan852]

I have an Asus GeForce GTX 760 Striker Platinum. I have the 344.75 drivers installed. Also, should I screen cap what happens in the event viewer for you?

 

[bgunner]

what you need to be looking for in the event viewer is under errors, they expand by clicking on the + symbol. Go through them and see what else has errored besides game programs.

 

[ravensfan852]

- Event ID:1, NvStreamSvc, 7 instances in the last week
- Event ID:20, WindowsUpdateClient, 1 instance in the last week
- Event ID:29, Kernel-Boot, 3 instances in the last week
- Event ID:455, ESENT, 1 instances in the last week
- Event ID:512, Store-Licensing, 5 instances in the last week
- Event ID:513, CAPl2, 3 instances in the last week
- Event ID:1000, Application Error, 10 instances in the last week
- Event ID:1002, Application Hang, 2 instances in the last week
- Event ID:4321, NetBT, 3 instances in the last week
- Event ID:5973, Apps, 1 instances in the last week
- Event ID:6008, EventLog, 4 instances in the last week
- Event ID:7000, Service Control Manager, 15 instances in the last week
- Event ID:7009, Service Control Manager, 1 instances in the last week
- Event ID:7024, Service Control Manager, 1187 instances in the last week
- Event ID:8003, bowser, 5 instances in the last week
- Event ID:10001, DistributedCOM, 1 instances in the last week
- Event ID:10010, DistributedCOM, 13 instances in the last week
- Event ID:11922, Msilnstaller, 1 instances in the last week
- Event ID:36888, Schannel, 1 instances in the last week


Sorry I'm not too tech savvy so I'm not sure what these mean or what I'm looking for here.

 

[bgunner]

NvStreamSvc, 7 instances in the last week / this one has to do with the Nvidia programs/drivers.

start looking into the service control manager errors. What are these referring to?

 

[ravensfan852]

That Nvidia one may be the issue but it doesn't have much info on it...

As for the Service Control Managers:

ID 7000: The AVG AVI loader driver service failed to start due to the following error: %%3758161981

ID 7009: A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Steam Client Service service to be reached

ID 7024: The AVGIDSAgent service terminated with the following service-specific error: %%3758213659

 

[bgunner]

OK the service control issues are all related to AVG's anti virus protection. these errors are telling you there are issues with the program. The first is the AVI services did not start for what ever reason., the second is the stream client did not start with in the allotted time that it should have so it failed to start and the third is the ID agent stopped working with the at particular code.

If you are using AVG I suggest you start googleing these to find the fix for this as a virus can really do some major software damage.

what is in he event log?

point is there should not be any errors at all. so you should spend time and track down fix's for these errors.

 

[ravensfan852]

I found the one for AVG. It's just because I don't have the premium anymore. What are you calling the event log?

 

[bgunner]

- Event ID:6008, EventLog, 4 instances in the last week

this is what I was referring to.

 

[ravensfan852]

It says the previous system shutdown was unexpected. I'm not sure what it means. I never hard shut down this computer.

 

[bgunner]

A crash/BSOD/power outage/improper shutdown all can cause this if you did not cause a hard shut down yourself.

 

[ravensfan852]

Alright well as far as I'm aware it hasn't been anything like that. Do you have any ideas as to how to test what's wrong? Like if it's the graphics card or ram? I'm about to the point of just sending this entire thing back for a refund as this is the second major problem I've had and I purchased this computer a month and a half ago. The first time it was a bad PSU and the new one they sent me was dead on arrival, so I'm beyond fed up and am tired of putting time into all of these defective parts.

 

[bgunner]

A bad / to low of a wattage PSU can also cause this, what PSU are you running?

Graphics drivers can cause this. Try this download Driver fusion and use this program to uninstall the GPU driver then reinstall the driver to see if this helps. Doing it this way completely removes the driver from the system and is more efficient than the uninstall feature in the installation program. you can also try different driver versions to see if the issue remains.

A bad GPU can cause this: to test this you can try your GPU in a different system or a different GPU in your system to see if the problem remains.

 

[ravensfan852]

I have a 750W Corsair. I've tried the driver thing before using some program to remove it and tried older drivers. No fix. I need somewhere to test my card.

 

[ravensfan852]

Sorry for the double post, I'm on mobile and there isn't an edit button to add this in. Is there a way to test a bad PSU? I feel like it's the video card that's the issue but I don't know if it's just the PSU not getting enough power. I just know regular operations work perfectly.

 

[bgunner]

There is a way to test the PSU but takes some very expensive equipment to do so though.

Your PSU, Is that a CX series Corsair? The wattage is more than enough but if it is not putting out what it should it could potentially cause this.

It is best to test your GPU in a different system first to know if it is a good part or not.

 

[ravensfan852]

Hey sorry about the wait for an answer. It was the GPU. I ended up picking another one up and trying it and everything works fine. Looks like I received another defective part!

 

[bgunner]

Some times it happens, receiving bad parts, but not usually 2 parts in the same machine although it has been known to happen. I'm glad you have solved your issue.