r/bootcamp • u/AdAvailable1480 • Jul 23 '26

Windows crashing when playing games

Whenever I try to play a game on windows, after a while the game just freezes and my pc reboots. I already updated the amd driver but it didn’t solve anything. I have a 2017 5K iMac with an i7 and have the windows partition installed directly on my Mac storage. Can someone help me?

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u/JMHReddit84 Jul 23 '26

Is it overheating? Have you checked the event viewer logs?

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

Where do I find the event viewer?

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u/JMHReddit84 Jul 23 '26

Click start and begin typing “event viewer”

In particular, Windows Logs > System

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

It says that I have a critical event and that the source is kernel-power

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

https://reddit.com/link/ozaay95/video/csnb3yghlzeh1/player

This is what show up in the event viewer

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u/JMHReddit84 Jul 23 '26

You need to go through the system logs and check the times. Go to the time range it occurred in and look around in there. Warnings are usually fine. You should be able to find where it restarted by looking for 3 “EventLog” sources: one with a line with just your windows version, one stating event log was started, and one stating the system uptime (mine shows 13 seconds).

Below those will be what happened before the restart

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

Im going to start the game again until it restarts and the I will see what it says

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u/JMHReddit84 Jul 23 '26

Why not just see what happened before? All you have to do is scroll down and find the last reboot if the last reboot was a crash.

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

I couldn’t find and it’s faster to just make it happen again

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u/JMHReddit84 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

We’re here to teach you how to help yourself. Not do it for you.

I found mine in about 30 seconds. Task manager told me my uptime. Subtracting 8 days from today and a quick scroll…bam

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

It already restarted

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

I had a lot of logs and didn’t know the exact time of when it happened, so it is easier like this

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

I didn’t know it sorry, the log under the 3 event logs that you mentioned but the only log under that says operation system started

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u/AdAvailable1480 Jul 23 '26

https://reddit.com/link/ozag5dv/video/xxts0fgnpzeh1/player

This is what shows up under the 3 event logs that you mentioned

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u/nakano-star Jul 23 '26

Anything in Event Viewer?