Game crashes my Pc

riamu13·10/23/2019, 7:37:11 PM·1 votes·897 views

Whenever I try to play a game I go into loading screen and then my whole pc crashes, if I manage to get into the game my pc crashes even before I can open the shop. I don't know if anybody else has this issue or if it's just me.

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MagicFlyingLlama10/23/2019, 8:26:12 PM1 votes

User software simply cant crash a working PC, it does not have direct access to the hardware and cant fuck anything up. Any hardware access is via drivers or other intermediate software.

There area few likely causes:

A driver is broken: wrong version, corrupted, or just bad. Something the game is doing is triggering cataclysmic driver meltdown as a result.
Your computer is broken: something the game is doing is trying to use damaged hardware or over-stressing the system, and down it goes.
The client is damaged and is sending garbage instructions to a driver/system, which is not checking the validity of what the game is telling it to do..

Actually, there is a third less likely but possible cause:

Windows sucks. Sometimes it stands in for a broken driver, since it also has a fair amount of control over the hardware. Any updates recently?

The first thing to do is look for logs and try to find out if anything is aware of the crash. Depending on what is happening, windows may last long enough to produce an error log that gives a hint at what caused it. You can do that manually if you know how, but there is also this useful tool that will look for windows crash logs and translate them to something you can probably read. Post the results of what you find: https://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

You may as well run the hextech repair tool for the client, if the client is corrupted, this should fix it.

Also worth running checkdisk (open command prompt as admin, type chkdsk /f), see if it finds any errors on your drive. If it does, you may have a failing drive that is causing corruption.

There is not much else worth guessing at without crashlogs and a detailed explanation of the crash (is it instant? what do the system fans do? any odd noises? how long does iit take to reboot?)