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I'm running it at 4k, which should be possible via a DP 1.4 connection which is what I'm using. Everything hardware-wise supports 4k, 144Hz, HDR, so it seems to be a software-side issue.

It's not an app-side thing though if I can't enable it in Windows itself, not on a per-app basis or anything.

Out of nowhere, my monitor will not allow me to turn on HDR at 144Hz, only at 60Hz, or lower, even though it was doing it completely fine for several months. I haven't changed anything that could cause that and overall it seems like a Windows issue. The second I click "Use HDR", the button just goes from being on to instantly off. Why could that be? I have tried different cables as well but still nothing. I have done nothing to the PC that should've caused this changed or made any Windows changes when it started to occur out of nowhere.

My monitor does support HDR. The list in my profile was out-of-date so I deleted it.

So all of a sudden I can't enable HDR in Windows. The second I click "Use HDR", the button just goes from being on to instantly off. Why could that be? Seems to be a Windows-side issue as on the monitor everything seems to be set up correctly to allow for HDR. Even before if HDR was turned off on the monitor it still allowed me to at least turn it on in Windows, even if made the screen not look quite right. I have tried different cables as well but still nothing. I have done nothing to the PC that should've caused this changed or made any Windows changes when it started to occur out of nowhere.

For an old-style case with the PSU at the top, drawing in air from the same chamber as the rest of the system, would a tower or top-flow cooler be better? In terms of airflow, the case has space for a 120mm on the front, a 120mm at the back, a 80mm on the side panel on the same level as the CPU socket, and a 120mm just below that.

Ryzen 3700X, X570 Aorus Elite, GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz

For several months now I had to deal with a lot of BSODs and crashing and general instabillity. Pretty much no troubleshooting I've done so far has helped so I'm starting to fear it's a hardware issue. Found one guy who's good at analysing minidump files and understand a lot on how Windows sub-systems work, and even he's confused as to what my PC is doing when he looked over the minidump files. Sometimes I get the normal BSOD and the PC restarts after its done collecting data, sometimes it just restarts on its own without a BSOD, sometimes it freezes up completely where I have to restart via the restart button, and sometimes things start to break in Windows, like the Task Manager becomes super laggy, icons on the desktop stop working, etc. to the point where I also have to restart via the button, as pressing restart in Windows also doesn't usually work by that point. However in the last few weeks, the actual BSODs where you get the BSOD screen have become more rare, and instead the PC either freezes up or restarts at random, but still generates a minidump file. The BSOD codes are pretty random, and I get pretty much all your standard error codes along with some more exotic ones from time to time. However it only seems to happen at idle, when the PC is under a very light load, if any, for example watching a YouTube video. Another issue I have that may or may not be related is also a pretty odd one. Whenever I boot up my PC (and seeing how it can crash every few minutes that's often) the taskbar appears completely blank. Restarting the Windows Explorer task does nothing. But if I first close the AppX Deployment Service, and then restart Windows Explorer, then I get my taskbar back. So any help on this will be very welcome given how often it can crash when nothing is running in the background. While I was making this post it froze up and rebooted twice! I've attached some of the Minidump files, but naturally it's not all of them given how often it happens. I tried all the basic troubleshooting already: SFC, DISM, Memtests, etc. Even good and trusted Windows repair tools haven't helped. Another note is that I am running Windows 11, but before people go "Urgh that's what you get for running a new and buggy OS!", the situation got both better and worse in different areas since I upgraded to 11 when it first launched. Firstly the taskbar issue is a lot better, as before, the entire desktop would be glitched out and just would constantly flash black and gray, with none of the icons visible. It would only get back to normal when I ended AppX and restarted Windows Explorer.. Now it's only the taskbar that doesn't work there. However, before all the crashes would come with a BSOD, I wouldn't have these weird instances where the PC would just restart out of nowhere or elements of Windows would just break until I restarted. The crashes have also been the most common these past few weeks, despite me making no further changes to my PC in this time. This issue in general came out of nowhere, I didn't make any big changes to the PC around the time it started happening, and my PC worked fine for ages before this started happening. I don't have anything really exotic in my rig either. Minidump.zip

Like I said in the OP, I've done all that kind of basic troubleshooting already and still nothing.

Looking at my installed programs lists it is listed as installed, though I can't even be sure as it doesn't allow me to uninstall it, or install it again.

Still get the same error as before.

So I've been unable to install things like Creative Cloud and some games recently as they all say that some .dll files are missing. So I tried to reinstall the Visual C++ redistributables via the all-in-one that's available and I just get the error below. Already ran all the basic troubleshooting like SFC and DISM, so what else can I do?

No results sadly.

Checked in the dir it's trying to install to but found no files there, no error log or anything else.

Yeah sadly that didn't work either.