dwm.exe stopped working

[c0mps_]

If I run applications such as games that are heavier on the graphics card my computer blacks out and plays the device disconnect sound, I get these alerts in reability monitor

I can confirm that neither my graphics card or processor are overheating and I have tried reinstalling both windows and graphics drivers.

Please help

 

[Colif]

Can you click on the view details link next to the hardware error and on the top DWM line, and copy/paste text into here.

Try running anti virus or malewarebytes as there is a virus around that attacks dwm

what are specs of PC?

Try doing a clean boot and see if its any better - read instructions and make sure NOT to close all Windows services or Windows won't boot right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

that will tell us if its a 3rd party program cauing the problem, if its fixed, slowly readd them to start up to find cause

I would suggest booting into safe mode and seeing if its drivers but it might be hard to play a game to test it, and if it only happens on graphics heavy programs, that won't work in safe mode as it runs at lower res.

a few other suggestions - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware-winpc/windows-10-dwmexe-has-stopped-working/8b297d26-d3ab-4941-b7c9-2ddcf6b8882b