Windows 10: What can be causing dwm.exe to crash?

Discus and support What can be causing dwm.exe to crash? in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; dwm.exe keeps crashing whenever Im playing a game. It always happens after some time and usually happens when I have a web browser open on my other... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by dmYC, Dec 22, 2018.

  1. dmYC Win User

    What can be causing dwm.exe to crash?


    dwm.exe keeps crashing whenever Im playing a game. It always happens after some time and usually happens when I have a web browser open on my other screen.
    I first tried clean reinstall of drivers, then I tried cleaning out and reseating my gpu, then I tried a clean driver rollback, Several days of more attempts later and I finally did a full clean install of windows.

    It is still happening.


    dwm.exe still crashes regularly with no way to avoid it.

    (Yes it has also crashed when ONLY the game was open and yes it has happened with several different games)


    What could possibly be causing it?


    specs:

    Motherboard: Z170A M5

    CPU: i5-660

    GPU: GTX 970

    RAM: 16GB

    PSU: 750W

    :)
     
  2. W1zzard Win User

    GPU-Z 0.7.5 causing crashes on load up

    Any chance you could narrow it down to which running application causes GPU-Z to crash? Ideally steps to reproduce for me here.
     
    W1zzard, Dec 22, 2018
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  3. peach1971 Win User
    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?
     
    peach1971, Dec 22, 2018
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  4. What can be causing dwm.exe to crash?

    all games crash!

    ive watch my temps and both the cpu and gpu are within normal ranges. when it freezes it simply freezes the image and stops the sound. i must reboot to get back to windows.
     
    Easy Rhino, Dec 22, 2018
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