Solved BSOD playing BF4

midoris

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I've been having problems running BF4 for the past several days. It used to be the game would just crash, from what i could tell it was a driver issue, so i updated. Now i get bluescreen after about 30 to 40 minutes of gameplay. BF4 is the only game that causes me to blue screen.

I have a sneaking suspicion it has something to do with the graphics card or graphics drivers, but i'm no expert and can't be sure.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1
Hi midoris,

Welcome to the 8forums.

The Nvidia Video driver has been flagged.

Please uninstall everything of Nvidia using Display Driver Uninstaller, install new drivers from Nvidia and see if it helps.
Code:
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvlddmkm.sys
0: kd> lmvm nvlddmkm
start             end                 module name
fffff801`1dea1000 fffff801`1e987000   nvlddmkm T (no symbols)           
    Loaded symbol image file: nvlddmkm.sys
    Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\nvlddmkm.sys
    Image name: nvlddmkm.sys
    Timestamp:        [COLOR=#ff0000]Mon Nov 02 13:48:41 2015[/COLOR] (56375BA9)
    CheckSum:         00AA7916
    ImageSize:        00AE6000
    Translations:     0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom build
    CPU
    i5-6500 @3.20GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte B150-HD3P-CF
    Memory
    16GB DDR4 2133 Crucial Ballistix Sport LT
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
    Sound Card
    Built-in
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Liyama ProLite XB2483HSU-B2
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Crucial MX200 500GB & Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB
    PSU
    Corsair RM550x
    Case
    Fractal Design Define S
    Cooling
    Cooler Master TX3 i
    Keyboard
    Func KB-460 (MX Red)
    Mouse
    Corsair Gaming M65 RGB
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Total Security 2017 + MBAM Pro + MBAE Pro
    Other Info
    Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Rage V2 headset
Sounds more like an overheating problem with a timescale such as that, it may well show itself apparently as a driver issue.
I would check your GPU and CPU temperatures. You may already have suitable software installed for that.

Those Graphics Cards that are overclocked by manufacturers you can peg them back to standard settings to see if it improves.

Also try older drivers, not always best to use the latest. Considering the release for that game you would be looking to one around November 2014 time.

Maybe it's not, the problem, but at least you will have checked, and maybe eliminated a possibility.
 

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An overheating problem a.t.m. doesn't seem logic to me with a timescale of 30 min.
With an overheating problem, a BSOD would occur more frequently then just when playing a game.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom build
    CPU
    i5-6500 @3.20GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte B150-HD3P-CF
    Memory
    16GB DDR4 2133 Crucial Ballistix Sport LT
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
    Sound Card
    Built-in
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Liyama ProLite XB2483HSU-B2
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Crucial MX200 500GB & Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB
    PSU
    Corsair RM550x
    Case
    Fractal Design Define S
    Cooling
    Cooler Master TX3 i
    Keyboard
    Func KB-460 (MX Red)
    Mouse
    Corsair Gaming M65 RGB
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Total Security 2017 + MBAM Pro + MBAE Pro
    Other Info
    Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Rage V2 headset
So to update, I installed some drivers for my motherboard that i seemed to have neglected when putting to machine together, which was about a week ago. It didn't fix BF4 crashing, but it did stop the bluescreen. The event log showed a driver, nvwgf2umx.dll buggin out, which lead me to a thread on reddit with a fix involving locking the frame rate. Seems to have worked as i have been able to run BF4 without any issues. I'm not 100% sure i fixed the problem.

Also, i don't think it was overheating, that was my initial thought but after monitoring its held steady at around 60C and no other games had been affected by it.

I'm going to wait a bit before marking this solved, but if it has i hope this will help others with the same issue.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1
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