Windows 10: Getting random BSODs when gaming

Hey everyone.



For the past few weeks I've been getting BSODs when playing certain games, namely Total War Warhammer 2, once with Total War Attila and now just today with another game Holdfast Nations at War. It occurs anywhere from 20 minutes in to a little over an hour.


The messages vary from DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION to PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA to UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP to SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION



I downloaded bluescreenview and it's saying it's caused by ntoskrnl.exe, address, ntoskrnl.exe+3f5780

From looking up other people with these issues I know it's probably driver related although I haven't narrowed out other things like hardware yet.


I am at my wits end and have tried the following


Chkdsk

Windows Memory Diagnostic

Resetting Windows

Reinstalling the game in question

Adjusting settings in said game

Running games in a compatibility mode

Updating my Bios

Updating drivers for SATA, Graphics, Audio via device manager and nvidia

Using DDU to reinstall my graphics card drivers.


And a couple other things, None of these things found anything wrong or fixed the problem. I really don't know what else to tryhere. I also have all the minidmp files I could find after my system reset.


https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkYyGUdy3nHpdJC0KHJ4PfiFmMo?e=t5WSEZ


If anybody has any idea on how to solve this problem for me I'd greatly appreciate it. This rig is only a couple months old and cost a lot of money and gaming is one of the things I bought it for.


Thank you for your time.

:)

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet


BitDefender is nothing special. mwac.sys causes BSODs anywhere.
A tiny documentation can be found here: Solved Random BSODs - Windows 10 Forums
In that very thread, the suggested action apparently worked.

The storage and network filters of any third party antivirus can cause BSODs. Neither MBAM nor BitDefender is any special. For a regular antivirus, it may be shifted to an alternative; but MBAM has no alternative. So a clean install of the said program is the most feasible first step.
As far as the first step is not failing, it is better to not think for the second step. Because the BSODs are not universal, failure at the first step is not universal; and success at the second step is also not universal.
That is why I posted that my suggestion may work, or may not. Let us see where it goes.

 

Random BSOD while browsing internet

Sorry, Bitdefender is a problem: BSOD BAD_POOL_HEADER - mwac.sys - Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Help - Malwarebytes Forums

 

Gaming and Random Crashes.


Hi,

After some research and failing to find any solution i`ve decided to find help, have a gaming laptop (don`t judge me) and it used to work pretty well, until the latest Witcher expansion, i would be gettting a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION everytime i tried to start the game, some driver updates later and now i`m randomly getting the same BSOD so far i've tried.

• Updating GPU Driver.
• DDU the Drivers and do a clean install.
• running sfc/scannow

Unfortunately my internet time is limited and i couldn`t find any more steps.

Any help would be appreciatted, and sorry for the bad english.