Windows 10: dwm.exe has a high probability of crashing if I play a game and scroll in Firefox...

I have been running the same PC for about four years now. Windows 10 Pro 1903 64 bit, i5 660@3.33 GHz, 8 GB RAM, Radeon 5700.


All this time, I have been playing World of Warships on medium settings, running HWMonitor and reading news as well as listening to music via Firefox.


After the last Windows update though, a peculiar issue arises: If I scroll on content-heavy sites likes nrk.no while in game, dwm.exe will crash and my screen freezes. But the underlying processes, like the game, still function. It takes a couple of minutes and dwm.exe restarts automatically.


I tried every advice I have found, but the error persists. Any ideas what happened?

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Blue Screen of Death (Crash) When Playing Games


Nothing for step 10.

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Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Microstutter during Windowed Gaming

Hello!

As the subject title suggests, DWM is causing some consistent micro-stuttering during gaming in Windowed Mode, my FPS isn't dropping, it feels as if frames are literally being skipped, I've done a lot of research on the matter and this was the conclusion
I came to; ultimately due to forced Desktop V-Sync / Triple Buffering which is causing unnatural occurrences that conflict with games.

So as much as I wish I could do what you're about to suggest, which is to play in Full Screen mode, alt-tabbing carries say a 10-20% chance of black screening and crashing my game, which is a static probably which pretty much everyone has on Windows 10 for
some reason.

Now more importantly, this micro-stuttering issue has never been fixed, the community that feel this issue as an annoyance have simply had to disable or mess with DWM to have an enjoyable, playable experience, but why should we have to do this?

From what I can find on the internet, DWM is an integral part of the OS, so I've literally not been able to find a workaround, I also can't stand this stuttering anymore due to me playing at a competitive level and not having a fun experience doing so, even
if I could game safely in Full-Screen, it's not convenient for a multitude of reasons.

Please can anyone reach out if you know of any possible solutions, workarounds, or is there anyone within Microsoft that has insight or influence to possibly have an update/hotfix applied for these scenarios?

Extra Info:

- Issue only applies to Windowed Mode, not so much as a performance decrease, but rather frame skipping than frame drops, no memory issues

- No memory issues or memory hogs

- My system is high-spec, clean, optimised

- Drivers are fully up-to-date and not corrupted

Any questions, comments, or your own experiences, please let me know,

Regards,

Rich

 

disabling dwm access denied

I don't know if it is even possible to disable DWM and still have Windows working normally but I found a list of solutions that can solve problems related to DWM:

How to fix Desktop Window Manager notification issues in Windows 10