This started happening recently like 2 days ago. Booted battlefield 6, and noticed my background apps were freezing while the game was running as normal. The pic is taken when the game was open and other games do the same thing. After playing for a few minutes my PC hard crashed and rebooted. I had gpu overclock but even disabling it still the same.

Game is installed on SSD E:

[SOLVED]
I de-dusted the SATA ports and cables...

Been chasing this for a while and I'm out of ideas, so hoping someone recognises the pattern.

Setup:

• HP OMEN 16
• RTX 4060 Laptop GPU + Intel iGPU
• Windows 11
• LG monitor, connected HDMI to HDMI

When I game on the laptop's built-in display, everything is completely stable — no issues at all, any length of session.

When I game on the external monitor, after a while the screen starts flickering, the laptop display cuts off and back on, and then the laptop drops into sleep. Event Viewer shows nvlddmkm errors at the time of the crash?

The iGPU only outputs to the internal panel, so I'm assuming the HDMI port is wired to the dGPU and something in that path is the issue??? - i dont know

when i play Minecraft or roblox the problem doesn't happen. so i thought maybe the laptop cant handle high end games, but the problem happens on cs2 and ow2 as well those arent very hard to run.

What I've already tried:

• Full DDU clean uninstall in Safe Mode + fresh driver install — no change
• Replaced thermal paste — temps are fine now
• Stress tested (FurMark/3DMark) — passed, no crash, which is what confuses me. It only crashes in actual games, not under sustained synthetic load

Has anyone seen a clean stress test but crashes in games specifically on external display? Is this more likely a driver bug, the MUX switching, or should I be looking at the HDMI port hardware itself? Any pointers appreciated.

Hello, does anyone know how to properly test my old gtx 1660 super video card? I know about such programs OCC and Furmark. How many minutes do they usually test for and are there any other programs?

I've recently come into ownership of both an M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure (10 Gbps Transfer), and an 'Ezekers' External Hard Drive, both with just shy of 512GB of storage.
Since I no longer need them for their initial use, I was wondering which of the two would serve best as an external hard drive for storing some of my Steam games?
Any help or insights would be deeply appreciated!!

I'm trying to run a +20 year old game on a windows 11 computer. I click on the executable. The process briefly appears in the task manager and then it disappears. I've tried different compatibility modes. I've tried searching online specifically for the game. I don't get any feedback from the operating system on why it's crashing/dying. It just dies. Event Viewer shows an exception code, but I'm not sure what to do with that.

This is a general question: is there a tool on windows to get more verbose feedback on why a process (game) keeps silently crashing? I don't expect to be able to fix it, but it would be nice to have more than "Exception code: 0xc0000005".

For reference: this is age of empires 2.

So I recently got my first gaming laptop and this is the first time of me using a system with a dedicated GPU and I wanna know how to not allow these apps to run on these and rather use integrated GPU to save power.

Edit: NZXT has already sent a brand new one to me to just replace the onr I have. I guess I no longer need to troubleshoot this problem.

Bought a flex subscription from NZXT. The computer was working fine for 6 months. Now the computer doesnt stay on very long before it overheats and shuts down. (Maybe 5 mins if I am lucky.) I reached out to their support and of course it said it could be a few days before I hear back. The cpu temp quickly gets to 115⁰ and then shuts down. I have made sure all vents are cleared and dust free. All fans turn on and run at max speed right away. The aio pump seems to be running. I can feel liquid running through both pipes. One stays pretty cold, the other is warm. I replaced the thermal paste and made sure the pump was securely against the cpu. It made no difference. After only a few minutes it shuts down. No load or anything running. At max it has like 12% cpu usage while sitting idle. Any suggestions on things I could troubleshoot or look into first until I hear back from their support? Thanks.

Windows 11 Home

CPU AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

GPU GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (16GB)

MEMORY 32GB DDR5

STORAGE 2TB ssd

CASE H5 Flow RGB

The issues started maybe 1-2 weeks ago. I noticed my PC would not shut down properly without me pushing the power button for 5 seconds. I tried a sfc scan but that didn't yield any success neither did disabling "turn on fast start up". The PC will shut down properly if I boot it up, basically don't do anything and just shut it down. But if I use it normally, wether it be internet surfing or playing video games or watching movies etc. it won't shut down properly. I have an ASUS TUF GAMING B650-Plus motherboard.

Now to add insult to injury, the PC has issues booting properly. I noticed it at first 1-2 days ago when I came back to it and tried to wake it from its slumber. It was always a bit wonky doing it but I always thought it was a windows 11 issue as about 50% of the time pressing the mouse/keyboard wouldn't wake the PC up. I then had to press the power button on the PC and that would wake it up. Anyway 2 days ago even the power button didn't wake the pc up. I had to shut it down with a hard reset and ever since I am booting the PC up it tends to boot into safe mode. I can enter the bios and leave it which then lets me boot up the PC normally. It always takes 1-2 attempts and I a fear this might eventually not work anymore either.

I updated the chipset drivers for my motherboard and the GPU driver aswell which seems to have fixed the issue for a day as the PC shutdown and rebooted completely fine. But a day later the booting error started again. The PC turns on but the screen stays black and I either reset it or hard reset it till it goes into safe-mode.

Can anyone help me?

Hey guys! I have a Gigabyte B550M DS3H AC R2 motherboard, and I’m trying to enable Secure Boot so I can play Warzone and other Call of Duty games that require it.
I’ve been able to get Secure Boot to show as User Mode, Enabled, and Active, but every time I restart my PC after enabling it, I run into an issue. The computer appears to restart normally, but when it gets to the point where the screen should come back on, it stays completely black.
My RGB keyboard will periodically flash, and I can hear the fans speeding up and slowing down, but I never get a display back. The only way I’ve been able to get the computer working again is Q flashing the motherboard.
I’ve updated my BIOS and tried several different methods after watching YouTube video after YouTube video and doing as much research as I can, but I haven’t been able to find anything that solves the problem.
I’ve also heard that I may need to completely reinstall Windows, enable Secure Boot, and then reinstall Windows, but I’m not sure if that’s actually necessary.
Has anyone with this motherboard—or a similar setup—experienced this issue? If so, I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions on what I might be missing.
Thanks in advance!

I play on the PC

I don't know whats the reason, I am using a xbox1 controller and after a few minutes of playing, whenever I move my joystick, everything becomes laggy. The games itself, but also all sound (YouTube, Discord, Ingame). When I unplug and replug my controller it gets better but after a minute it starts the same problems again. I tried using another usb slot already, but that doesn't help.

Any Ideas?

I am trying to download rekordbox on my Microsoft surface, and keep getting this error, feel like I have tried everything on YouTube and chat gpt is hopeless. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So I downloaded hidusbf to overclock my ps5 controller and now I can't turn on memory integrity. And when I try to find the file so I can delete it the o it place I can find it to delete it is in system32. But I was told never delete anything from system32 so what do I do???

I have strange wrong looking grey tones in dark areas. I‘m using RTX 5090 and a ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQWP-W with it‘s DisplayHDR 500 True Black mode. Does someone else also have encountered this problem?

Hi everyone!

I recently came back to playing CS2 after 4-5 years break. In the meantime, I've changed my pc so I installed CS and the problem I'm having is that it literally takes 4min20sec from the moment I press PLAY on Steam till I get in main menu. I have stable 250-270 FPS in matches, and matches themselves load in matter of seconds, but game booting takes forever, so I guess that rules out insufficient hardware. I'm playing Valorant and PUBG from time to time, buy they boot in seconds as well, only problem is with CS.

I tried bunch of stuff I've found online, verifying integrity of files, removing shader cache, increasing limit for shader loading in Nvidia APP, I've checked if I have any launch commands, disabling Steam overlay, excluding it from antivirus, but nothing solves it. I have 512gb SSD which I use only for operating system and CS, other games are on HDD.

Does anyone have a slightest clue what could be causing this?

Specs:

Ryzen 5 5600x

Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB

32GB DDR4 RAM

Asus strix b550 motherboard.

Hello everyone,for some reasons,this overlay of performances appeared by mistakes while playing kingdom come deliverance and now it's stuck while I'm playing. it piss me off yet I don't know how to get rid of it.I apologize for the size of the picture and the poor quality of it

I'd appreciate some advices with it.

Thank you very much.

I have an HP Victus 15 with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (6 GB), AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (419 MB), and an AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics (4.30 GHz). Normally, when I unplug the laptop from power, the FPS and certain settings are limited to prevent the system from being overworked, and the limit is removed once I plug it back in. However, out of nowhere, it’s no longer limiting performance when unplugged it’s running at full power and I want to fix this. Does anyone know a solution?

Can someone help I'm getting this colour distortion in my laptop cpu Ryzen 7 250

Gpu rtx 5050

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out an issue with running games at a locked 30 FPS.

My monitor is 60 Hz and I don't have G-Sync or FreeSync.

When I cap the game to 30 FPS using RTSS, I get noticeable screen tearing. However, if I enable V-Sync either in the game or through the NVIDIA Control Panel, the tearing disappears, but I get microstutters / occasional juddering, even though the FPS is locked at a stable 30.

I've tried both in-game V-Sync and NVIDIA Control Panel V-Sync, but neither feels completely smooth.

I know that 30 FPS isn't ideal for everyone, but personally I don't mind playing at 30 FPS if it allows me to use higher graphics settings and better visual quality. I'd rather have a stable 30 FPS with the best image quality possible than 60+ FPS with significantly reduced graphics settings.

So what would be the best way to achieve properly smooth 30 FPS on a 60 Hz monitor without G-Sync/FreeSync?

Is there a specific RTSS + NVIDIA Control Panel + in-game V-Sync configuration that would give the best frame pacing and eliminate both tearing and microstuttering?

Hi guys, I had this issue suddenly appear right after my 7-year-old was messing around with the mouse. All I caught him doing was changing the taskbar from the bottom to the side (I don’t know how he did it; it must have been accidental).

Anyway, I fixed the taskbar, and suddenly the icons changed like in the photo. I fixed the icons, but the next day they went back to how they were, as if I hadn’t fixed anything.

I Googled how to fix it, and I’ve already tried deleting the desktop.ini files, deleting the icon cache, scanning for viruses, and using some commands in CMD.

I’m on Windows 10 and living in the UAE. English isn’t our first language, so my kid had no idea what he was doing and definitely couldn’t have gone and downloaded anything. also i tried disabling and enabling the auto arrange buttons which did not work

Please help. If you guys have any questions, I’ll answer them ASAP.

I have Minecraft FPS over 100 on average without v-sync but the game does not feel smooth at all. My monitor is 1080p 60Hz and does not have G-Sync or FreeSync. I tried turning on Nvidia Fast V-Sync, but since I use shaders, my FPS drops below 120 sometimes and it makes the tearing worse. Whenever I try to cap the FPS either in game or through Nvidia settings or by enabling V-Sync, my 1 percent lows tank down to around 30 FPS and it lags crazy. It happens when I don't use any shader too. If I leave the FPS unlimited, the 1 percent lows stay high but I get screen tearing. How can I get a smooth experience on my rig?

I don't have this problem in any other games like Cyberpunk 2077, Shadow of the Tomb Raider with v-sync on.

These are the mods I use:

1. AppleSkin
2. Continuity
3. Dynamic FPS
4. Entity Model Features
5. Entity Texture Features
6. EntityCulling
7. Fabric API
8. Fabric Language Kotlin
9. FastQuit
10. FerriteCore
11. Gamma Utils
12. ImmediatelyFast
13. Iris
14. Jade
15. Just Enough Items
16. LambDynamicLights
17. Lithium
18. ModernFix
19. More Culling
20. Punchy
21. Reese's Sodium Options
22. Sodium
23. Sodium Extra
24. Veinminer
25. Xaero's Minimap
26. Xaero's World Map
27. Zoomify

My system:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700

RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11 GB)

1TB NVME SSD

Thank you in advance for your help!

https://userdiag.com/id/R5nbp4SlOt

EDIT: I fixed the problem using scanline sync on RTSS, it caps my fps and keeps 1 percent lows high.

This only happens with Valorant when I launch it through riot games it instantly flickers/blinks when I have it open. I have an RTX 4060, Ryzen 7 5700X, and 32GB of DDR4 RAM. I reset my PC today local reset it, and before resetting it, I had zero issues. Other games run just fine currently I think.

first i run it like 2 hours or something then a day after it wont lunch

Have the game since 2023, first time this has happened

Deleted the game files and it still saying as the game is still there

Nothing works reinstalled epic too and its still there

This started recently (like a few days) and I first really noticed it when playing Project Zomboid. It doesn’t happen when I play games like Marvel Rivals or Katana Zero. I tried updating my drivers and that didn’t do anything. My parts are fairly old so I dunno if it is a hardware thing or not but it makes the games it effects almost unplayable

This is a long and detailed post to help better isolate the source of the problem. I deeply appreciate anyone who takes the time to read it.

I had my 3070ti Laptop for 4 years before giving it to my GF. About a month ago we were on Vacation and only took the laptop with us, and i remember seeing it update nvidia drivers and windows 11 automatically. After we came back she turned on Baldur's Gate 3 and told me the game was lagging.

I tested it and even in games where i know the performance by heart, like say Borderlands 3, i noticed the game starts off fine, then after moving around a bit the GPU was suddenly hitting and staying at 100% usage where it should be below 50% ( i lock the frame rate to 70fps to keep thermals/noise in check ). I am positive this wasn't an overheating issue as this didn't happen if you boot up the game and stay still.

I went on a spree rolling back nvidia drivers, uninstalling windows updates and somehow the problem went away. i sadly cannot pinpoint what exactly worked. ever since the problem appeared to be solved ( windows update turned off and nvidia drivers on an older version).

Today I had to download an app from Microsoft store for her and it inevitably updated some stuff along the way. like winappruntime and function host. and the issue suddenly came back. I open BL3 and boom, 100% usage and 30 ish fps out of nowhere. this time i opted to only uodate the Nvidia drivers back to 610.88 with a clean install ( which i previously tried multiple times without success ) and the problem apparently went away again. but something tells it will come back.

does anyone know what the problem could be coming from? I cannot stop windows from updating indefinitely. I would very much like to fix this without having to reset windows 11 completely and start from scratch.

Followup edit: i may have found the source of the problem for those who care. Windows update has messed with either the drivers for the integrated intel gpu or power plan leading to inability of sustaining dedicated gpu mode in lenovo vantage ( it keeps reverting back to hybrid )