Game lag during intense sessions due to computer freezing.
Game lag during intense sessions due to computer freezing.
I realize my setup is quite different from what you're describing, and it seems to be prone to unexpected issues. Right now, games such as Destiny 2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider cause the whole system to freeze after roughly ten minutes. Benchmarks like Time Spy don’t show this problem, as do Superposition or Heaven. There’s no BSOD—just complete video and audio stoppage. I’ve looked into the event viewer and attached a screenshot. I received Bugcheckcode 257; I developed this system at the end of 2020 as a personal project, but it has performed reliably so far. I’m hoping someone can help identify the cause. My components are: Huananzhi F8 X99 motherboard, e5-2699 v3 processor with BIOS tuning to keep all cores at 3.6GHz, ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II cooler, Samsung 970 NVMe SSD in quad channel DDR-2133, dual 2080ti Nvlink GPUs with balanced fans, and an EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 PSU with 80 Plus Platinum. Temperatures are impressively low—processor rarely exceeds 50°C, and the GPUs run very cool thanks to the custom fan setup. Your insights would be greatly appreciated.
It seems this might be a Windows problem. I've encountered similar issues before. Try these steps first: open Command Prompt as an administrator and execute sfc /scannow—it checks for corrupt files and attempts fixes. Next, update your GPU drivers and chipset drivers. Switch to the Ultimate or High Performance power plan, open CMD as admin, and run powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61. This should display options in your power plan settings. If none of these help, download a Windows ISO from their website. If it arrives in a zip file, run the installation and choose to keep everything. This will reinstall Windows while preserving your programs and files. It's a fast and safe way to rule out a Windows-related issue.
I already had the best performance in my power settings. Switching to high performance seemed to cause it to fail earlier. I ran Memtest 86 up to 60% but had to stop to actually do work. No errors during that time and my memory is normal. The timings were set to default. It looks like there might be a kernel power issue. The power supply needs to be sufficient. Could the connection to the wall be affecting it? I’d already tried the tweaking app and reset everything. This crash happened after updating to nvidia 531.79. In Destiny 2, the Blue screen didn’t finish gathering crash data. I’ll probably reinstall Windows now.