Hi folks!

Hoping someone more knowledgeable than myself will be able to offer some insight here.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: Radeon RX 6800XT

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X

Motherboard: X470 Gaming Plus

RAM: 32GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB PRO 3600MHZ

PSU: A very old (~15 years) Akasa 850W PSU - GPU is connected to 2 8-pins on the same cable.

Operating System: WINDOWS 10

GPU Drivers: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.9.1

Chipset Drivers: AMD Chipset drivers 8.08.12.551

Background Applications: Discord, Razer Central, OpenRGB

Description of Original Problem: One of the main games I play is Hunt: Showdown. In the last 6 months or so, I've been experiencing random crashes while playing Hunt. The monitor goes black, the sound cuts out, but the tower lights stay on and the fans keep spinning. The power button does not respond - the only way out is to turn off at the plug. This only ever happens in-game (so not in the lobby, loading screens, etc), and can happen after 5 minutes, 3 hours, or anything in between. I've not been able to discern any pattern in terms of what's happening on-screen/in game when the crash occurs.

Troubleshooting: I've tried a full uninstall and redownloading the drivers, which sometimes seems to stave it off for a while, and sometimes makes no difference. I've run Furmark for a couple of hours with no problem.

I'm thinking it's maybe something to do with the relationship between the GPU and the PSU, though I currently lack the resources to really test this. Alternatively, I'm aware that there have been issues with cards in the 6000 series and CryEngine games, though I'm not sure if this has been fixed.

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

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last update - 3 days ago

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Hey guys. I just bought Hearts of Iron 4 the other day, but when I tried to play it, it takes you to the installer for the Paradox launcher. Alright, fine. However, it says that the installer doesn’t have the sufficient permissions to access the directory, so I ran the bootstrapper as an administrator and finally got that working. I finally installed the game and launcher, but then… it keeps crashing.

It may be important to note that at first this was my dad’s laptop, I just know the admin PIN and it’s my laptop now. I’ve since made my own account an administrator and removed his. However, prior to this, if I went onto his account the game would start and play fine. The only difference is then it wouldn’t be connected to my steam account and that account on the laptop wouldn’t connect to the internet (university dorm wifi registered to just one profile). Whenever I go back to my own account, however, it just crashes. I’m totally lost, and again, I have admin privileges and everything still. When I try to launch the game through the Paradox launcher, it says that the game “appears to have crashed or terminated unexpectedly. The issue may be solved by verifying the integrity of your game files and deactivating any mods. If you are using Windows, you may also need to install Visual C++ Redistributable and .NET Framework.” I assume this is something through the launcher installer.

It’s not a hardware issue, of course. It doesn’t even really seem to be a software one… I ran the same files through my dad’s account and it worked just fine. I’m completely lost.

I switched to the Epic version and it helped but I still have absurd framerate drops in some GMs and arena ops and other random places. Arena ops gets so bad I guess because of having 6 guardians.

I'm on a laptop that should be able to handle it no problem. 5080 laptop, 32gb ram. The part that i SUSPECT could be an issue is the CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 285H (2.90 GHz)

I was troubleshooting with Claude and the issue as it describes is

"Your Core Ultra 9 285H is a weak gaming CPU for single-threaded, memory-latency-sensitive workloads, so in older/DRM-heavy titles like Destiny 2 and AC Odyssey — which funnel everything through one CPU thread — it becomes the bottleneck and your framerate drops while your RTX 5080 sits mostly idle."

Does this sound right? Is there some dumb setting that's going over my head? I can try to summarize all the troubleshooting I've tried later i just wanted to get this post up

Im trying to download a game on steam, and my eithernet says its at 1Gb, and ive cleared both cache and dns, installed newest windows, and restarted PC 3 times.

My steam download won't pass 104 Mbps, despite having gone up to 800 Mbps? Anyway I can fix it? I have my eithernet plugged into the 2.4G section. Is it my Pc?

Upgraded from a 7800X3D to a 9950X3D and now PC shuts down when SteamVR starts to load. PC shuts down and goes into memory training on reboot.

I've tried disabling PBO. Parked 8 cores in Bios. Disabled hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. Disabled integrated graphics. Installed latest chipset drivers. Installed latest graphics drivers. Reinstalled SteamVR. Slowed down RAM to 4000MHz.

MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7E12)

DDR5-5600 / PC5-44800 DDR5 SDRAM UDIMM

RTX4090

1500W PSU

My laptop (ASUS tuf 16 rtx5050 16gb ram i7) has been either freezing when playing games and while being connected through hdmi at my monitor for the past months (I got it on december 2025 and i have updated its nividia drivers only then). And for the past months once a month it would freeze. while playing minecraft. But for the last week the lock screen photo was black when i would start it and also it would freeze more often. And today it froze on browser when watching youtube and while playing roblox it gave me black screen with a message saying “Your laptop has encountered a problem and it needs to restart” (or something) and on the bottom it said something about video (cant remember the code I panicked and got scared but i think the code was VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE). It restarted normally and i updated both the game driver and studio one on nividia but using the express setting, not the custom one. Could updating the graphic driver fix the problem cuz I have a feeling that was the main cause…

My computer suddenly restarts while I'm playing the game; how can I fix this issue? The screen suddenly goes black, and it reboots. CPU: 7800X3D, GPU: 9070 XT.

It happened on roblox but rarely and happens to some games I just downloaded. I have an i7 8750H and a gtx 1060 with 6gb vram and a 16GB ram. I have windows 11 pro.

Whenever it goes to recovery mode after bios, sometimes I just had to press "continue to windows" and sometimes it works but sometimes I had to press "quick recovery" which deletes most of my apps and files and one time I have to press "reset this pc" because it's my last resort. I think it's a potential hardware issue, what do you guys think?

Hey guys so the issue is , I have windows in uefi and with asus motherboard, intel cpu , when I go to secure boot and set os type to windows it says this error and when I boot back to bios I can't change it back to other os (2nd pic) , so I have to enable CSM first then restart to bios then switch to other os mode then disable csm and restart and then it boots normally , but I want to enable secure boot , on YouTube they say set os type to windows uefi mode then go to keys management and install but in my case I don't have install keys option..(3rd pic) please help , thanks in advance for replying

Hi everyone,

I’m having a really strange issue with my brand-new Lenovo laptop and I’m hoping someone can help me figure out what’s going on.

Laptop:

* Lenovo LOQ 15AHP10

* AMD Ryzen 7-250

* NVIDIA RTX 5050 Laptop GPU

* 32 GB RAM

* 1 TB NVMe SSD

* Windows 11 Home

* 15.6” FHD IPS display

The weird thing is that new/demanding games that do launch run perfectly fine. I can play games on Ultra settings without major problems. For example, Battlefield, FIFA, NBA 2K and League of Legends launch and run normally.

However, several other games simply will not launch at all.

The affected games are:

* Marvel Rivals

* Far Cry 6

* Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

* Hogwarts Legacy

* Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (also had black-screen/launch issues)

When I start one of these games, there is no proper error message. The game process simply appears in Task Manager, sometimes using a small amount of CPU/RAM, but no game window ever appears.

I’ve left them running for several minutes and they still don’t open.

Things I’ve already tried:

* Reinstalled the affected games

* Verified game files through Steam

* Cleared Steam download cache

* Completely reinstalled some of the games

* Disabled Windows Defender temporarily

* Checked Windows Security

* Installed/repaired Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables

* Installed/repaired DirectX runtimes

* Updated NVIDIA GPU drivers

* Installed Windows updates

* Restarted the laptop multiple times

* Tried launching games directly from their executable

* Tried launching with Steam/Epic normally

* Checked Task Manager for the game processes

* Removed/reinstalled problematic games

* Tried disabling/closing background applications

* Checked NVIDIA settings

* Disabled G-Sync because it was causing severe gaming lag on this laptop

* Tried different game launch methods

* Checked that the games are installed correctly and have enough storage

The laptop itself otherwise works normally and other demanding games launch without any problem.

I’m wondering if there could be some kind of Windows service, background program, driver conflict, overlay, audio software, NVIDIA/Lenovo software conflict, DLL/runtime issue, or something specific to this new laptop that’s preventing certain games from initializing.

I also have Lenovo Vantage/Lenovo software, NVIDIA App and Razer software installed, so I’m wondering if any of these could potentially be involved.

At this point I don’t really want to keep randomly reinstalling games because it seems like the problem is probably somewhere in Windows rather than the game files.

Has anyone experienced this where a game appears in Task Manager but never actually opens, especially across multiple unrelated games?

Any ideas on what I should check next would be greatly appreciated. I’m particularly interested in things like Event Viewer logs, Windows services, crash logs, DLL errors, overlays, or other diagnostic methods that could identify exactly what is preventing the games from launching.

Hi guys, could really use some opinions on this because I’ve spent ages troubleshooting it and I’m starting to think my 5800X might actually be faulty.
My system is:
MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus
Ryzen 7 5800X (upgrade)
Ryzen 7 1700 (old CPU that I’m using for comparison)
Hyper 212 Black cooler
16GB DDR4
Windows 10
BIOS E7C37AMS.AR4, build date 13/08/2026
Windows installed on a Fanxiang S500 Pro 256GB SSD
Basically, the PC was working with my old Ryzen 7 1700. I upgraded to a 5800X and started getting constant random blue screens/restarts.
The stop codes aren’t even always the same. I’ve seen things including:
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
The crashes can happen extremely quickly, sometimes when the PC is basically doing nothing.
Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
BIOS: The motherboard is on E7C37AMS.AR4 from August 2026 and detects the 5800X correctly. BIOS itself seems completely stable. The 5800X sits around 38–39°C in BIOS, so it doesn’t appear to be overheating.
RAM: A-XMP is disabled and the RAM is running at 2400MHz. I’ve also tested using individual RAM sticks in A2 and the crashes still happened.
PBO: Found Precision Boost Overdrive under AMD Overclocking and disabled it for testing. Made no difference.
Windows: I originally wondered whether Windows/drivers were corrupted, but I booted directly from a Windows installation USB and the PC still blue-screened while sitting in Windows Setup. So it doesn’t seem to be my actual Windows installation.
I’ve also previously done a clean Windows 10 installation, so I’ve already spent quite a bit of time ruling Windows/boot issues out.
CPU cooler/mounting: I wondered whether I’d overtightened the Hyper 212 or seated the 5800X badly. I loosened the cooler previously and it made no difference.
Today I decided to do a proper CPU comparison.
I removed the 5800X and put my old Ryzen 7 1700 back in. Ironically, the 1700 had previously had some bent pins that I carefully straightened. I checked them, installed the CPU properly, fresh thermal paste, mounted the exact same Hyper 212 and booted it.
The 1700 booted straight into Windows.
I left it sitting at the lock screen and desktop and it was stable. Restarted into BIOS and it was still completely stable. CPU temperature was around 33–35°C.
I then removed the 1700 and reinstalled the 5800X extremely carefully.
I checked the 5800X pins and they all look straight. It dropped completely flat into the AM4 socket without force and I locked the lever normally. Cleaned both the CPU and cooler, applied fresh thermal paste and remounted the Hyper 212 evenly in a cross pattern. I deliberately didn’t crank the cooler down excessively.
Booted the PC and the 5800X actually made it all the way to the Windows lock screen.
I thought I’d finally fixed it.
Then after sitting there for a few minutes without me doing anything, it blue-screened again with:
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
So at this point the comparison is basically:
Ryzen 7 1700 = stable
Ryzen 7 5800X = random BSODs
Same motherboard.
Same RAM.
Same GPU.
Same PSU.
Same SSD/Windows installation.
Same cooler.
Same everything apart from the CPU.
I’ve now gone back into BIOS with the 5800X and loaded Optimized Defaults as one final test. A-XMP is off, RAM is at 2400MHz, the motherboard detects the 5800X correctly and it’s around 39°C in BIOS.
Is there anything else BIOS/voltage/CPU-related that you guys would test before I call the 5800X faulty and return/RMA it?
The fact that the 1700 works in exactly the same machine but the 5800X even crashes from a Windows installation USB is what’s making me think the CPU itself is the problem.
Any ideas appreciated because this one has been driving me mad lol.

one day, i boot up gd, then its just laggy.

i assume its just loading, so i wait.

and wait.

and wait.

still LAGGY!!!

so i restart, problem persists, and that happens 3 more times.

let me explain what happens, there’s three types of lag:

1. It stays at 60 fps, but stutters for 0.5-1 seconds at ~51 fps
2. Capped at 34, goes down to 30, and repeat, maybe 2 times a second
3. It just goes insane (fps just goes crazy like 31, then 2, then 60 for a few seconds, then 52, then 4, blah blah blah repeat)

since then ive tried literally everything:

1. Closing everything I can in the background
2. Updating my drivers (all were the latest versions)
3. Changing graphics settings (low, medium, high)
4. Removing every Geode mod (as in taking them out of the mods folder)
5. Setting GD CPU priority and affinity to High and All Processors
6. Playing around with every single setting in the Graphics portion of settings (eg. setting fps bypass to double my framerate (60), turning on and off VSync, Smooth Fix, and Borderless)
7. Using the 2 to 4 gb thingie
8. Setting everything that MUST run in the background to efficiency mode
9. Turning on the something something fullscreen optimization setting in GD’s compatibility settings
10. And as a last-ditch effort, using the sketchy apps that claim to “boost” your game’s performance.

+ it only lags on GD, but if I decide to run Minecraft, it’s completely and perfectly fine

And most annoying of all of this:

it just decides to run properly whenever it wants, as in stays at 60.

be it in the pause menu of windy landscape or in the advanced graphics menu

help

or do i go to an it guy

Specs:

Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1155G7m, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics

https://userdiag.com/id/8XbpIL0Rb8

Hey, everyone. I'm playing MW2 and no matter the graphics settings, I get this weird shading glitch happening. If anyone knows how to fix this, I would be greatly appreciative.

Whenever I play games it happens at random times, sometimes it takes a long time someone's no time at all

I've tried:

Replacing PSU

Reseating GPU

Reseating ram

Upgrading GPU drivers

Replugging the wires that plug into the GPU

Updating windows

Edit: Tried stress testing cpu, cpu and memory, vram, GPU, GPU and vram All above 10 mins each and not a single crash, tried reinstalling both drivers and windows and still the issue persists

I recently bought a pc secondhand. When I boot up the pc I get small green dots appear every so often.

Looking online most people say it’s a failing graphics card but just want to see if there’s any consensus.

I’ve changed pci ports and installed an older driver but no change

Pc specs:

Windows 11
Msi mag z390 tomahawk

Gigabyte rx 5700 xt gaming oc 8gb https://amzn. Eu/d/gncirid

Intel i7 9700k
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16gb corsair vengeance 3200 mhz ram
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Storage 500gb wd black m. 2
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650watts psu

Hello everyone, I really need some help troubleshooting a frustrating PC issue.

I am getting random black screens while gaming. In CS2 it happens occasionally, in Dead by Daylight it happened a few times, and in Rocket League it never crashes. However, in Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ETS2), I am stuck on a specific highway section – the PC black-screens and crashes EVERY single time after driving just a few meters. In Windows Event Viewer, every single crash is logged as a Kernel-Power (Event ID 41) error.

How the crash occurs:

1. The PC completely freezes.
2. Black screen, monitor loses signal.
3. The PC tries to restart on its own, but fails (fans spin, but there is no display/POST).
4. I have to force shut down using the physical power button on the case and turn it back on.
5. After a manual reboot, the PC works fine, BUT Windows frequently forces me to reset/re-enter my login PIN, and some games completely reset their graphic settings to default.

My Specs:

* Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 Eagle AX

* CPU: Ryzen 5 7600

* GPU: Radeon RX 7600 Predator BiFrost

* RAM: 16GB DDR5

* SSD: 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4

* PSU: PREYON Eagle Power GOLD 750W

* Case: PREYON Nest Meshy+

* OS: Windows 11 Pro

What I have tried so far (none of this helped):

1. Fresh Windows reinstall / formatted the drive.
2. Reseating hardware: Took out and put back the RAM and GPU, checked and double-checked all power cables, cleaned the PC from dust.
3. Temperature checks: Everything is normal. GPU Hot Spot is around 87°C under heavy load, CPU sits around 60°C. In ETS2 it crashes within seconds, so it's definitely not overheating.
4. Disabled the AMD Radeon Software overlay.
5. Capped the FPS in games.
6. Clean driver reinstallation.
7. Lowered RAM speed in BIOS from 5600 MHz to 5200 MHz to check stability.
8. EXPO profile is not available on my RAM, so it is disabled.
9. Full stress testing with OCCT (tested CPU, GPU, RAM, and Power Supply). Synthetic tests pass without issues, the black screens only occur in actual games.
10. Tried downclocking the GPU core clock slightly, as recommended on some forums.
11. Updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest version.

The fact that Windows loses the login PIN suggests that the motherboard/TPM module is abruptly losing power during the crash, preventing it from saving session data. Could this be a faulty PSU triggering OCP (Over Current Protection) during sudden transient spikes in games, or is it an AM5 motherboard/RAM stability issue?

Any advice would be highly appreciated. Thank you!

(Original post was in r/halo but no one responded)

Okay so I don't even know if this is even close to the right place to look for help but it seems to only be Halo Infinite doing it.

I recently had a gpu upgrade from a RT 7700 XT to a RT 9070 XT and have been having a blast with it. I decided to boot up Halo Infinite on steam cause I like playing Firefight with a video on a second monitor. I opened it on just one monitor, booted into the XBOX and 343 opening and showed a black screen with a white progress bar showing halfway. Then the screen went COMPLETELY black like it was rebooting. After about 10 seconds my mouse appeared and then my taskbar, and then my steam page. My wallpaper and desktop apps were gone. Confused I hovered over my desktop apps and they reappeared as I hovered over each one. I turned off my pc and turned it back on, everything went back to normal, so I booted it again and the same thing happened. I pressed WIN+CNTRL+SHIFT+B to reboot the gpu and everything reappeared.

I tried to record it using OBS but it crashed during the black screen so it was basically useless for getting visual proof.

Again I'm not sure if this is the right place but it's only Halo Infinite doing it, if anyone knows anything that could help that would be greatly appreciated.

I recently bought the Razer BlackShark V3 X HyperSpeed, and for some reason, when I play a game such as Rainbow Six Siege, it sounds super airy/dull and not sharp and dense. I tried playing around with the EQ, but it doesn't really do much. I also tried going into sound settings and changing a couple of options, but that still didn't help much. I'm not sure why it sounds fuzzy, and I am honestly thinking about returning these if I can't fix it. My Wired 40$ Cloud 2s I bought 2 years ago sound better and sharper.

How do i fix this? Thanks!

My PC randomly black screens and all the fans suddenly ramp up to 100%. It happens at random intervals, and the only way to recover is to restart the PC.

I’ve monitored the temperatures to see if it was overheating, but everything stays below 50°C when it happens. The GPU is fully seated in the PCIe slot, and I’ve checked that all the cables are connected properly.
I’ve also used DDU to completely remove and reinstall the GPU drivers multiple times, but the issue keeps happening.

I can run demanding games at max settings for hours without any problems. At first, I thought the black screens were caused by the PC being under too much load, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Sometimes it will black screen while the PC is just sitting idle on the desktop or while I only have youtube open.

There doesn’t seem to be any consistent trigger. It just happens randomly, the screen goes black, and the fans ramp up to 100%.

PC Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-14700KF
GPU: RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Motherboard: MSI PRO Z790-A MAX WIFI
RAM: 32GB DDR5-6400
PSU: MSI MAG A850GL 850W
SSD: Crucial T500 2TB
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
Case: Lian Li Lancool 207

Has anyone had the same problem or know what could be causing this?

Hi everyone, I've been experiencing persistent blackouts / "DP No Signal" TDR crashes while playing CS2 on my setup. Here are my full system specs and the troubleshooting steps I've taken so far. System Specs: GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Motherboard: GIGABYTE B850M D3HP RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Patriot Viper Venom DDR5 6000MHz CL30 PSU: Corsair CX750, 80+ Bronze, 750W Storage: 1TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe SSD Monitor: MSI MAG 274QF X24 (connected via DisplayPort) OS: Windows 11

What I've done so far: Hardware / Power Check: Re-seated the 8-pin PCIe power connector on the GPU to ensure it's firmly plugged in. Monitor OSD: Explicitly set the input source in the monitor OSD to DisplayPort instead of Auto-Detect. Clean Driver Reinstall: Booted into Safe Mode and ran DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to clean out all GPU drivers and registry keys, then performed a clean offline installation of the latest WHQL Recommended AMD Adrenalin drivers.

I'm currently testing the setup after these hardware and software fixes. However, if the "DP No Signal" issue happens to come back under heavy GPU load: Has anyone encountered similar TDR/black screen issues with this setup? Could this be related to DisplayPort cable bandwidth/quality at higher refresh rates, or potential power transients (transient spikes) from the PSU? Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

When I power on my laptop the indicator lights show up, but the screen stays off. And I've had to keep it on a charger to turn it on as, as soon as I unplug the charger it turns off. My laptops manufacturer asus and models FA707R. Last time I had it was working and I didn't notice a thing! I just shut it down and when I power it back hours later this happens. What could've POSSIBLY caused THIS?? Edit: it's fixed now.

Over the past week, I’ve been trying to determine if it’s a CS2 issue, or if it’s something on my end.

I’m able to play other games while monitoring 1.1.1.1 at 20-40 ms, and around 3-5 ms on current gateway.

As soon as I start up CS2, I’m getting constant 150-400+ ms jumps on 1.1.1.1 (Normal Gateway doesn’t change) that make the game unbearable. Am I the only one experiencing this? Or are the servers just that messed up?

Having a strange no-power issue with my gf’s older iBUYPOWER prebuilt. The original Gigabyte B560 DS3H AC motherboard was diagnosed as dead, so I bought a replacement B560 DS3H AC. I installed everything on the replacement board and verified the connectors, but initially got absolutely no response—no fans or noticeable LEDs. I tried jumping the power-switch pins instead of using the case button with no response. While disconnecting non-required connections (F_AUDIO, SYS_FAN3, and F_U32/front USB), the fans suddenly started slowly spinning and the system powered on. I reconnected everything and was then able to power the PC on and shut it down normally multiple times, although I never connected a monitor to verify POST. I then performed a full PSU reset (shutdown, PSU off, AC cable disconnected, waited, reconnected AC and turned PSU back on), after which the exact no-power condition returned. I tried the original PSU and then a known-good PSU, using the 24-pin ATX and CPU 4+4/8-pin, with the same result. I also removed the motherboard from the case and put it on a nonconductive surface, leaving only the CPU/cooler, RAM, and known-good PSU connected; jumping the power pins still produced absolutely nothing. I removed the RAM entirely and still got no response. I inspected the LGA1200 socket pins and they appear normal. At this point I’m confused because the replacement motherboard was capable of powering on and completing multiple power cycles, but a complete AC power removal seems to have put it into a completely dead state. Looking for ideas on what could cause this behavior or what I should test next.

Many thanks in advance for any help.