Windows 10: Games crashing on Windows 11 Pro with no errors or dump files

2nd fresh install of Windows 11 Pro, all windows updates, updated drivers and bios. All games close to the desktop after playing anywhere from 5 minutes to 3 hours. After the first crash, it crashes a second, third, forth etc. within 15-20 minutes unless I restart the PC. I've turned off XMP and ran system diagnostics with no issues returned. PC belonged to my son and ran fine for a year, I built him a new PC and did two fresh installs on this PC only to have issues. Specs:Intel i9 11900k ProcessorGSkill Trident Royal Elite 4000mhz 2x16gb DDR4 RAMAsus ROG z590-i Motherboard EVGA FTW3 3080T

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PC completely crash without BSOD or creating dump files as soon as I open games

My Setup (Windows 11 Pro)

• Ryzen 5800X
  
• GSkill 2x32GB DDR4 (3600 mhz)
  
• Asus ROG B 550-F Gaming Wifi
  
• Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (PCIe 4.0)
  
• WD Blue SN570 1TB (PCIe 3.0)
  
• EVGA RTX 3080ti FTW3 12GB (with Resizable bar enabled)
  
• Coolermaster 850W Gold + Lianli Galahad 240 AIO + 8 fans lighting daisy chained into a single aRGB port
  
• Under load, CPU is in the 70s, GPU at 50 degrees (60 for hotspot)
  
• Last hardware upgrades were done in June 2023 (AIO was failing so had to swap with a new LianLi Galahad AIO)
  
• D.O.C.P is enabled
  
• I have no other overclocking in place whatsoever (all BIOS options by default)
  

Symptoms

• Under the desktop, doing office related stuff or browsing, no crash
  
• I do GPU for Deep Learning Model Inference/Training all the time and nothing happens
  
• No memory dump is generated (options are enabled under Windows)
  
• I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 since it launched and that's when the problem starts appearing.
  
• At first, as soon as I opens any games, after sometime it crashes. But lately, I don't see even BSOD screen anymore.
  
• When I play games like Apex Legends or FIFA, it crashes immediately.
  
• Sometimes, BSOD with CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED and the computer reboots with no dump (Windows/Minidump). But most of the time, it just stop working and crash with GPU artifacts.
  
• Even Viewer shows a critical error "Dump file creation failed due to error during dump creation"
  

Tried so far

• Flash the BIOS to the last one (3205)
  
• Reinstall Windows 11 Pro completely from scratch
  
• Check CSM flag in the BIOS (it's disabled by default because of UEFI secure boot)
  
• Tried 1x stick of RAM, then the other one, crashes a bit later (a few minutes) but crashes in all games
  
• Ran MemTest86 with 4x pass, all good
  
• Ran Drive Verifier, crashes with no dump (I cannot spot any driver then)
  
• Reseat memory sticks
  
• Swap memory sticks
  
• Roll-back to Nvidia drivers by using DDU (crashing the same way)
  
• SFC / DSIM fixes, no issues found even after crashes
  
• I tried a different GPU iGame 2070 but with that GPU, PC works perfectly fine without any issue. Therefore, I thought it was GPU failure and RMA claimed to EVGA. They sent me a replacement unit and the situation is still the same.
  

What's next?

• buy a new CPU?
  
• probably PSU? Because PC was working fine with iGame 2070 GPU and power consumption difference between 3080ti and 2070 is literally twice!
  

Like many other posts before, it is very frustrating because I can't figure out which part of the PC is wrong even after trying with multiple tools. Anything else that I should try?

Thanks in advance!

 

WinDBG - The Basics for Debugging Crash Dumps in Windows 10  


Please note that the tutorial is meant for system crash dumps, game crash dumps contain different information and thus not all the steps in the tutorial work for a game crash dump.

 

all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?