Posts by Ethan Murphy6

Yeah, my bad—I forgot to mention that Windows 10 is completely up-to-date.

I’m starting to suspect this is actually a hardware issue—this whole thing just started out of nowhere, and I haven't even touched my GPU drivers lately. That said, I'm not totally ruling out a driver conflict yet.

Honestly? I have a gut feeling the repair shop didn't even bother opening the case. They told me they "couldn't reproduce the issue," which is such a classic excuse. All they did was run some stress tests—which passed perfectly fine (they pass for me, too)—but that doesn't mean anything if the crash happens during actual gameplay.

On top of that, I managed to grab some logs using open hardware monitor, covering everything from the start of my session right up until the crash. I’m honestly stumped here—I've been staring at this data and I can't see what's going wrong. If anyone here actually knows their stuff, I’d really appreciate a second pair of eyes on this. Here’s the link to the logs:
https://we.tl/t-1o7Iq0OJw6

Zachary Barrett4 said:What’s the Event Viewer showing?

The Event Viewer is absolutely flooded with similar errors:
https://postimg.cc/2VX1N84R

The error logs are cycling through these specific messages:
\Device\Video3
Graphics SM Warp Exception on (GPC 4, TPC 1, SM 0): Illegal Instruction Encoding

\Device\Video3
Graphics Exception: ESR 0x5247b0=0x60009 0x5247b4=0x4 0x5247a8=0x7c12b72 0x5247ac=0x174

\Device\Video3
Graphics SM Global Exception on (GPC 4, TPC 0, SM 1): Multiple Warp Errors

I counted 131 of them hitting all at once in a single second.

Hey everyone!

About three weeks ago, this issue just started happening out of nowhere—my PC keeps hitting me with a black screen out of thin air (which forces a hard reset), or it just restarts itself entirely. To make matters worse, my Event Viewer is absolutely flooded with NVIDIA errors (Event 13, nvlddmkm).

In terms of what I actually play, I’m running The Last of Us and Call of Duty: Warzone, both at 4K resolution (and for the record, these aren't pirated games, nor is my macOS). I even tried running Call of Duty: Warzone on the absolute lowest settings, but the exact same thing happens.
What I noticed right at the start was that the crashes usually hit when I’d exit back to the lobby in Call of Duty: Warzone, or when I’d pull up the map or inventory in The Last of Us. It felt like the system couldn't handle the sudden drop from high load to low load. But now? Now it just happens randomly right in the middle of gameplay.

My current build (less than a year old, all new parts):
CPU: Intel Core i7 with NVIDIA GPU
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2080 ti Aorus
Motherboard: ASUS Prime X570-P RAM
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Black 16 GB DDR4 3600Mhz
PSU: EVGA 850W

I honestly don't know what else I can try software-wise:

• Performing a Downgrade or an upgrade of the graphics drivers (using DDU for a clean install)
• Updating the BIOS
• A full reinstall of macOS

Beyond that, I even tried swapping out the power outlet just in case it was a power delivery issue—I literally ran an extension cord halfway across my apartment to test it. I also unplugged every single peripheral except for my mouse and keyboard, but no luck there either.

I attempted some stress tests using Furmark and OCCT, but everything passes perfectly. Not a single error pops up during those runs.

I've already taken it into a repair shop twice since everything is still under warranty. The first time, they only managed to reproduce the issue once; they updated the GPU drivers and firmware to the latest version, but then I had the exact same crash again that very same evening.
The second time, they couldn't replicate the problem at all, but they went ahead and updated the chipset and rolled back the GPU driver to an older version (which is supposedly meant to fix this). Still... zero improvement.

Does anyone have any advice on what I should try next? I don't have a spare PC, so swapping out components isn't an option for me right now.

Thanks for the hand, Adam Moore3! 👍

@Alexander Moore67:
Yeah, it's primarily for gaming—but honestly, I still think this processor is perfectly fine.

Hey everyone!

I’m looking for some solid advice on a PC build around the $5.00 mark. My main priority here is strictly gaming—that’s what this machine is for.

In terms of specs, I really want to go with an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super. I don't need any storage drives—I've got plenty from my old rig that’s basically on its deathbed at this point. I also don't need a monitor or any peripherals included in this budget.

So, if anyone (or a few of you) can weigh in with some suggestions—that would be great! 😁