[SOLVED] Not sure if it's drivers or hardware.

Epyon500

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I'm convinced it has to be the latest Nvidia update because before this I had no real issues playing warcraft or any other video game really. Now I can't play that, loading Total War Warhammer II causes a blue screen crash as well typically within 2 minutes of the game booting. In the case of Warcraft it's fine until the character loads in then the 2 min timer begins.

I'm using a steelseries MSI laptop (all I've really got atm) as my main gaming and browsing unit, i7-6700HQ 2.6GHz, 16 gig ram (tested and passed), Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 I will include the ms32info once I find somewhere to upload it as trying to post just says too much info :p

MS32info
 
Solution
First off, see if you can update your OS to 1909(which is actually 18363). Might want to see if you've got a BIOS update pending and then use DDU to uninstall your GPU drivers. Reinstall the GPU drivers after downloading them from Nvidia's support site and installing them in an elevated command, i.e Right click installer>Run as Administrator.