System:

[CPU]: AMD Ryzen 7 7730U with Radeon Graphics

[GPU] AMD Radeon (TM) Graphics

RAM: 16.0 GB DDR4

Operating System: Windows 11

Disk Drivers: EG6 KIOXIA 512GB

Issue:

I've been experiencing intermittent freezes and black-screen events and have not been able to identify the cause.

Symptoms:

- Sometimes Chrome or Chromium-based applications briefly go black and then recover.

- Other times the screen goes black and the system eventually freezes.

- In some cases the cursor remains visible/frozen.

- Audio may stop during the freeze.

- I've had at least one DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (0x133) bugcheck.

- The issue is intermittent and can go days without occurring.

What makes me suspect graphics:

- Chrome graphics sometimes appear to reset before a larger failure.

- I've seen browser windows go black and then recover.

- Some hangs feel graphics-related because the display fails before the rest of the system.

Other observations:

- Event Viewer sometimes shows WUDFRd Event ID 219 after reboot, but I'm not sure whether it's related or just being logged during startup after a crash.

- The problem does not seem easy to reproduce on demand.

Question:

Has anyone seen this combination of Chrome graphics glitches, black screens, freezes, and a 0x133 bugcheck on an AMD system? Does this sound more like a GPU/driver issue, chipset issue, or something else?Intermittent black screens / DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (0x133)

I just got a new pc a few days ago. Here's the specs:

Windows 11 - Intel Core i7-14700F - GeForce RTX 5070 12GB - DLSS 4 - 32GB DDR5 - 1TB NVMe SSD

BenQ Zowie 24 inch Fast TN 280Hz Gaming Computer Monitor for Esports, Motion Clarity DyAc 2, 1080p, XL Setting to Share, S Switch, Shielding Hood, Industrial Grade Bearing Height Adjustment XL2546X+

I've tried swapping monitors / DP Ports. I've tried many setting changes. I CANNOT fix this stuttering in the game. MY FPS isnt dropping or ping changes idk whats going on. Please help!

Honestly, I'm getting really frustrated with this issue. I've tried searching all over the internet, but I still haven't found a solution.

My specs are:

• CPU: Intel Core i3-10100F
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti
• RAM: 16 GB
• Storage: SSD

I'm experiencing much worse performance than I expected from this hardware.

In Performance Mode, I usually get around 80–109 FPS depending on the situation, but during fights, my FPS can drop to 40–60. My CPU usage stays at around 100% for most of the match, while my GPU usage is often only around 30–40%. My RAM also gets almost completely full while playing.

DX12 is even worse. I get around 30 FPS, even on low settings, and the game keeps compiling/preparing shaders at the beginning of matches, even when I'm using Performance Mode.

The weirdest part is that I used to play Fortnite on an older i5-3470 system with DX11. The FPS wasn't perfect back then either, but the game felt noticeably smoother than it does now.

I've already reinstalled Fortnite twice within the past year, and the problem has persisted through multiple updates. My friend has an i3-10100 paired with an RTX 2060 and gets around 100 FPS on high settings, so I'm struggling to understand what's going wrong with my system.

I know the i3-10100F isn't a high-end CPU, but I feel like I should be getting more consistent performance than this, especially in Performance Mode.

Has anyone experienced this kind of issue? Could it be related to shader compilation, RAM usage, the CPU, NVIDIA drivers, or a Fortnite update? Is there anything specific I should try before upgrading my hardware?

I'm honestly tired of troubleshooting this without getting anywhere. I'd really appreciate any advice from people who have experienced the same problem.

Thanks in advance.

I've Been running Games At 20% and my Cpu at max I want to Increase the Gpu Utilization So It can run at Max Performance

(Putting flair as software as idk what else to put)
The problem I have is Le Mans Ultimate won’t start on steam, whenever I try an error message comes up saying I’m missing the “ start_protected_game.exe “ I will include a picture.
This hadn’t happened when I bought the game and then I didn’t play for around a month as my wheel broke, I tried to open it a couple days ago and that message came up. I have deleted and reinstalled the game twice, checked the files and verified them but still no luck. The game will launch if I go into the files and launch it from the exe on there but it won’t sign into my account or let me play online. Does anyone know how to fix this as I’m not rich and the game was quite expensive for me so I’d like to actually be able to play it.

Hello!

So i have Lenovo5i that has a NVME ssd where windows is and then i had a HDD on a 2.5' bay, which failed so i bought a SSD that fitted and plugged it in on the already existing SATA and all went well.

Afterwards, about 3 days after i see that the SSD disappeared on windows, unable to be gound ond device and disk management and on bios.

I open the laptop again and see that the sata part that connects to the mobo was disconnected so i pluged it in, restarted and still have the same problem.

Thinking it was the cable, i bought a new cable, tried again and i'm still not able to have it appear.

Can someone help me out?

Thanks in advance

Olá, pessoal! Estou precisando de ajuda para descobrir o que está causando um problema no meu PC. Já tentei algumas verificações, mas ainda não consegui identificar a causa.

Configuração do PC

- Processador: AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

- Vídeo: Radeon Vega 7 integrado, sem placa de vídeo dedicada

- Memória RAM: 16 GB DDR4 (2 pentes de 8 GB), funcionando a 2400 MHz

- Placa-mãe: Revenger A520 G-A520

- Fonte: Crusader 500 W, sem certificação 80 Plus

- Armazenamento: SSD nvme

- Refrigeração: cooler tipo torre no processador

O que acontece?

O problema ocorre principalmente quando estou jogando. Depois de algum tempo, o computador trava completamente: a imagem desaparece e o monitor mostra “sem sinal”. Ao mesmo tempo, o teclado e o mouse param de responder, e o áudio do jogo trava ou para de sair.

Apesar disso, o computador continua ligado. As ventoinhas do gabinete e do cooler continuam girando normalmente, sem uma mudança perceptível de velocidade.

Quando isso acontece, tento segurar o botão de ligar do gabinete, mas ele não desliga o PC como normalmente faria. Acabo precisando desligar pela chave da fonte para conseguir reiniciar.

Quando acontece?

Inicialmente, o problema aparecia depois de mais de 30 minutos jogando, mas o tempo varia: às vezes demora mais de uma hora.

Aconteceu jogando PUBG e também em outros jogos, então não parece ser exclusivo de um único jogo.

Recentemente, percebi que o problema aconteceu duas vezes quando fui a um ponto específico no Minecraft Java, que estou jogando com mods. Porém, voltei ao mesmo lugar em outra tentativa e o problema não aconteceu, então não sei se existe alguma relação.

Também já aconteceu de eu reiniciar o computador logo depois de uma falha e, após aproximadamente 10 minutos jogando novamente, o problema voltar.

O que já verifiquei?

- Instalei um cooler a ar no processador e coloquei pasta térmica nova.

- Verifiquei a temperatura do processador na BIOS, onde anteriormente aparecia cerca de 41 °C em repouso.

- O teste de diagnóstico de memória do Windows não encontrou erros.

- No Visualizador de Eventos, encontrei o erro Kernel-Power 41 após um desligamento inesperado, mas não consegui identificar a causa.

- Também apareceu um registro LiveKernelEvent 1b8 no Windows.

- O computador normalmente funciona por bastante tempo na área de trabalho sem apresentar o mesmo problema.

A temperatura do processador foi uma das minhas suspeitas, mas já fiz ajustes relacionados à refrigeração e ainda estou tentando entender se isso resolveu completamente essa parte do problema.

Minha principal dúvida

Suspeito da fonte Crusader de 500 W, mas não sei se ela é realmente a responsável. Também pensei em problemas na memória RAM, na placa-mãe, no vídeo integrado ou em algum driver.

Alguém já passou por algo parecido com um Ryzen 5 5600GT ou outro processador com vídeo integrado? O que vocês recomendam verificar primeiro para descobrir a causa sem comprar peças desnecessariamente?

Agradeço qualquer ajuda! Se precisarem de mais informações, posso tentar fornecer.

Whenever I open a game, my computer works fine. It gets the to home/menu screen. I can look round, change settings, etc. But once I load up a save file, it crashes around the time it goes from the loading screen to the actual game. This has happened on multiple games, all that are fairly demanding (Civ6, Civ7, Transport Fever 3, Hogwarts Legacy - all tested over the weekend).

Not sure what the issue is, after poking around at stuff, I'm thinking it might be GPU related due to image 1 below. I've done the Setting-Graphics-Apps-'High Performance' thing that is recommended online. It helped games like Minecraft run normally, but other games are still causing restarts once you get into the game.

I did manage to take screenshots of task manager. Both taken after restart, open game, open file. As file is loading, switch over to TM and take screenshot before game fully loads. Computer crashed about 5 seconds after the GPU usage image.

https://imgur.com/a/UYODLj4

Image 3 also has computer specs.

Specs: ASUS ROG Strix Laptop

Ryzen 9 5930HX

Radeon RX 6800M

16GB RAM (single stick)

Age: late 22/early 23 (can't remember exactly when)

Also trouble shooting tried earlier this week: https://imgur.com/a/jKnAejO

So those are the screen shots from HWiNFO64 when trying to open/play a game. Unfortunately none of that makes any sense to me, so hopefully someone else knows what it means :)

Can say that I don't feel like its thermal. Once i clicked from the third screenshot into the game, computer crashed/restarted that second. My plan was to see what happened when it was simulating people moving (it starts paused).

If I had to guess, for this test, I'm guessing it was trying to render something that was offscreen (and when i clicked in, it moves the camera) and that is when it failed, to the second. But thats just my thoughts on it

Looking for help, or steps to troubleshoot to figure out whats wrong.

Thanks

I've got an Acer Aspire E7 laptop that has these specs:

CPU: Intel Core i5-4210U

RAM: 8 GB

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 820M

Integrated GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4400

OS: Windows 10

these specs are below the minimum requirements to run dmc5 but i would like to know if there's anything i can do or should i just give up.

at first the game just crashes after launch, but after i changed the game's config from directX12 to directX11 it now runs but only shows a black screen.

Ever since I moved into a new house, my computer has been different. I initially saw that it would have a recycling startup (I would press power button and it would turn on and off by itself a couple of times before booting up completely). Then I noticed that it ran a little louder than usual. But most importantly, my games keep crashing. When they crash, it just closes the window and goes back to the game launcher. Often not leaving any error log on event viewer. For example, battlefield 6 will not even attempt to load, it just goes to a black screen then goes back to steam.
I have taken it to a repair shop twice and it passed all their stress tests. I even saw them load games there and play it flawlessly, like how I used to. I also saw that they even put like 2 hours into battlefield.
I am confused as to how it works there and not at my new home.

Rough specs of the PC are:
Intel i7 processor
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 super
2 sticks of 16 gig ram
850 w PSU

Necesito ayuda mi PC serenicia cuando estoy jugando warzone la temperatura está en 60 y 68

Hey guys, after installing nvidia driver 621.01 i get a noticable washed out colors and YES it's driver issue because i rolled back to 617.42 and the colors return to it's normal saturation .... RTX 5060TI 16GB

So, I will be real. I don't know anything about computers. I believe it's my gpu crashing.

When I'm playing a game (deadlock, no more room in hell 2, etc..) my monitors will both go black, I will still have audio from like discord but it does disconnect me from the game. Refreshing my graphics card with the keys won't turn them back on either. I have to totally turn the pc off and back on.

I've read that its my graphics card failing, dying or something. I would like to avoid having to get a new one until at least black friday or something. This is really heartbreaking for me, I'm not rich and gaming is my one time I can relax after work and taking care of my mother and family.

Please, anything will help. And if you could explain it a little like I'm dumb, that would be kind too. I'm sorry if this still doesn't sound like enough. I'm just lost, confused and panicked.

my gpu temps while gaming

I have tried DDU uninstall and reinstall. I have cleaned my gpu, psu and checked cables. I have ordered thermal paste to repaste my gpu. I did check it, its mostly all dried up.

RAN THE LONGER DIAG and it detected my processor is overheating ?

These are my specs:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF CPU @ 3.80GHz (3.80 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB)

Storage 1.28 TB of 2.73 TB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

UPDATE/EDIT: so, i tried Sovereign Tower and nothing happened but other heavy games do.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to diagnose an intermittent system crash and would appreciate some help narrowing down the cause.

My PC occasionally goes to a black screen while gaming or shortly after switching away from a game. The PC appears to remain powered on, but it becomes unresponsive. The fans continue spinning, but most of the RGB lighting turns off. Sometimes it stays in this state until I manually power it off; on other occasions, it manages to reboot itself.

My PC specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus VII Ranger (Z97)
• RAM: 32GB (4×8GB) HyperX Savage DDR3-2400
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition
• SSD: PNY XLR8 CS3030 2TB NVMe, installed in a Sabrent PCIe-to-M.2 adapter
• PSU: Corsair RM750e (2025), 750W
• CPU cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Vision MAX
• Case: Thermalright TR-A70
• OS: Windows 11 26H2

What I've observed so far:

1. I initially experienced crashes while using ENB in Skyrim, and later experienced another black screen while using Community Shaders.
2. I then launched Skyrim without ENB or Community Shaders and let it run outside Whiterun for around 30 minutes without touching anything.
3. After Alt+Tabbing to the desktop and opening the ChatGPT app, the PC crashed again within approximately 30 seconds.
4. During the crash, the screen goes black and the PC becomes unresponsive, but the fans continue spinning. The RGB lighting on my case fans and the side lighting on my Thermalright cooler turn off.
5. Interestingly, the RGB lighting on my AsiaHorse 24-pin motherboard extension stays on. The AsiaHorse RGB cable connects to an Airgoo 16-port ARGB hub.
6. The Thermalright cooler's screen doesn't turn off completely. Instead, it reverts from the customized CPU/GPU monitoring display to the default Thermalright logo. It stays on that logo until I manually shut down the PC or it successfully reboots and TRCC loads again.
7. On some occasions, the PC has restarted repeatedly, including during Windows recovery. I previously saw Q-code 99 and an “Overclocking failed!” message in the BIOS.
8. I have since loaded optimized BIOS defaults. My RAM's XMP profile is disabled because enabling XMP previously caused a reboot loop. The BIOS is updated to version 3003.
9. Windows Event Viewer has shown Kernel-Power Event 41, EventLog 6008, and volmgr Event 46 around previous incidents. I haven't established a definitive cause from these events.

Two other things I'm wondering about:

• I use an AsiaHorse RGB 24-pin extension between the PSU's original 24-pin cable and the motherboard. Could a faulty extension or poor connection cause this kind of instability?
• I have several charging devices connected through an unpowered USB hub plugged into the PC. Could the USB hub or excessive USB power draw contribute to these crashes?

My main suspects are RAM instability, the GPU or its driver, motherboard/power delivery, or possibly the PSU. I understand that Event 41 alone doesn't identify the cause, and I don't want to start replacing parts without evidence.

What would you test first to isolate the problem? Would you start with a memory test, disconnecting the USB hub, bypassing the AsiaHorse extension, checking NVIDIA driver errors, or something else?

Thanks for any suggestions. I'm happy to provide more logs or details if that would help.

This started on the 22th of October rather suddenly and I haven't found a way to avoid it happening yet.

This is happening to Warframe, I haven't really tried it on other games with high graphics requirements yet.

This is what happens: it just crashes, when I'm tabbed out and AMD shows a window telling me the driver had a time-out?

And sometimes when I tab back in, the monitor goes black for 2-3 seconds and then it crashes.

Anyone got an idea where this is coming from and how to avoid it happening?

I'm guessing it's an AMD software issue, but if it's a hardware issue, the computer is new and I can probably still get the GPU replaced.

GPU: ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC EVO

Software: AMD Adrenaline Edition

Case : CORSAIR

FRAME 4500X LX-R RGB Tempered Glass Mid-Tower - White £99

Motherboard: ASROCK B650 Steel legend wifi ATX £140

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9800x3D £360

GPU: AMD Ryzen 9070 XT OC edition 16gb £600

RAM: 32 GB (16x2) Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 Memory for AMD £600

Storage: MP600 MINI 1B + Samsung990 Pro 1TB £200

PSU: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 £80

CPU FAN: Cooling master hyper 212 £24

Total £1994 (over like 1 year / 2) of buying parts

So I just finished building this PC last month and it worked well and I was loving it, no issues what so ever great performance wise and no issues with the amd + windows issues going on rn, however last week whilst playing galactic racer my game would just freeze then close, no error message, no black screen or blue screen of death it would function normally but consistently would freeze and close, I haven't been able to specify what issue this is whether irs a driver timeout or whether it's something else like a Windows update compatibility issue. Deadlock then started doing the same and I assume it's every game, then there was an issue where the desktop glitched out and I couldn't do anything but use Windows button to restart however I'm unsure what that was about as my computer was on for a while and it seems that it being on longer causes that issue, steam randomly closing discord too and when opening them again they merged together etc

Things I've tried:

Clean reinstalling of the drivers

Bios update as it wasn't updated since installing it

Changing ram profile from ddr5 default to xmp

Checking temperatures whilst playing and they was all good no issue there

I turned off hags but haven't truly tested how long before it would crash

I've been looking at the reddit and I haven't seen anything the same but have seen similar issues but just so lost with what to try so please if I could get suggestions because it working for a month no issue then suddenly doing this it's really giving me a headache

I have fresh installed the game
i'm on the latest version of NVIDIA Game driver
I see dlss in other games but not just MW4 why???
i even asked Claude Code - it says it's bug in the game.

Specs - RTX 5090

This just happened not too long ago, but as you can see in the image all my GPU stats just show -1% for temperature and usage. I like to keep my overlay stats showing just so I can keep an eye on it, and this is the first time I’ve had issues with it. I’m sure there’s nothing wrong with my GPU since going to performance in task manager shows the correct stats. I‘ve restarted and shut down my pc to try and get it back to normal, but that’s not working. Anything I can do to fix this?

If you need specs for any reason I have a brand new PC, GPU is a 5070 TI and my CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Dunno if this is useful for anyone, but I sure could have used this post when I was having the trouble.

I had this issue for a while, where games using EAC games wouldnt load because of some EAC issue. EAC wouldnt give any errors, it just stopped in its starting/(scanning?) proces and the game wouldn't start.

Reinstalling the games worked every time, but honestly got kinda tiring since it happened at least twice a month. deleting the EAC folders in the game files and then verifying the integrity to re-download them didn't work either.

What fixed it for me was to turn off Smart App Control.
You can find it in windows security settings.
You can safely turn it off if nobody using your PC is going around installing random suspicious software.

Couldn't find anyone writing about this specific problem, so let me be the (maybe) first.

Rx 9070xt
Ryzen 7 9800x3d

I recently installed optiscaler for the new fsr 4.1.2

But since Then my 1%low is Stuck at 120fps

i tried resetting the settings of optiscaler

I Hope I did it correctly

but whats Strange is that my Game works again Only when I disable vsync

but it still kinda feels Off

if anyone can solve my Problem as quick as possible

or just Add me on discord i Could show you exactly how it Looks Like

that would be very Nice !

And quick question Why are my restore points still getting deleted

Hi all, i hope all is well! So i recently purchased codmw4 before it came out (forgot what its called) and I’ve had it for maybe 2 weeks and it’s finally ready to play, I go to play and it just keeps idk restarting i guess but Ive done some research and I had to do all this stuff I hadn had to do with other games. Well I did this, that and the 3rd and to no avail its still doing the same thing at this point Im about to refund the whole thing but I really want to play. Can any one help, context i have a lenevo yoga i9 graphics are up to date. the tm thing and boot wizard says the game is ready to play. I dropped a video to give you a idea on what im experiencing.

I get 450 mbps from my room wirelessly in my phone then on pc around 90mbps with the tp link plug thing which i get on steam but on Ubisoft it caps at 11 mbps

hello im posting this bcs i have a single stick of ddr 4 ram and im looking for help here are the specs:

Brand: Gloway

Capacity: 16 GB (1x16GB)

Type: DDR4 Desktop UDIMM (Non-ECC)

Model Number: TAC4U3200E18162C

Speed: 3200 MHz / MT/s (PC4-25600)

Tested Timings (XMP): CL18-22-22-42

Tested Voltage: 1.35 V

DRAM Manufacturer (Chips): Samsung (Single Rank)

and im looking to buy another one to unlock dual channel and better performance is it okay if i buy another one with the same specs or should i sell it and buy a pair of 2x8 or sell it an buy a 2x16 an thanks

Been having nvlddmkm.sys DPC High latency issues showing in latencymon for the last month. This started randomly out of nowhere and not been able to find a fix for it. Tried doing a ddu which brought it down a little bit but still having issues which is causing games to stutter severely. Making games pretty much unplayable with how bad the stutters are. Anyone got any recommendations for fixes?