I havent been playing other games recently but for all I know is this crashing only happens in valorant. After playing in a multiplayer lobby (it doesnt consistently crash in singleplayer lobbies) for about 5-10 minutes (it varies), my monitor will just suddenly go black but the fans of the PC and GPU will still spin (RGB is also still on). Until I manually restart or wait for an indefinite amount of time (sometimes immediately after the screen goes black, sometimes after 30 minutes) my PC will restart automatically. I dont know whats causing this issue. I thought my windows was corrupted as I was having input lag issues after gaming for around 3 hours and so i tried reinstalling windows to no avail and so i bought a new HDD and had someone install windows 10 on it for me. I then also moved Valorant over to different drives to see if that was the problem, ive tinkered with drivers for my GPU, CPU, and motherboard. I've tried switching out my ram as it seemed like that was the issue (and I still think that its probably the ram). I have 2 sticks of 4GB 2400Mhz CL-16 that Ive been using alongside a single 8GB 3200Mhz CL-22 (seems to run fine at CL-16 at around 2800Mhz), for the past 3ish years with almost no problems. I managed to fix the problem by switching out the memory and running only the 8GB stick but then after a day the problem came back. Then I ran the 8GB stick and 1 of the 4GB sticks at 2900Mhz at CL-20 for around half a day before the problem came back again. Because of this I assume the issue is memory related and as of current I dont have the budget to go out and buy spare ram sticks (also because in Indonesia no one sells used RAM for anything less than retail new price) to test out if this is really the issue or not. I also tried changing the page file manually as amidst all this testing I managed to get a BSOD with error code fault in page file or something along those lines. This noticeably decreased input lag in valorant for some reason but if anything caused the crashing to happen what seemed to me to be faster than usual tho I didnt measure it. My System: PSU: EVGA Bronze 450W GPU: GTX 970 Strix (I tried underclocking the GPU and CPU to see if it was a power related problem but it persisted so I dont think its that either) CPU: R5 3600 Mobo: MSI B350-M Pro-VDH RAM: TeamGroup Elite+ (2x4GB 2400Mhz CL-16) + TeamGroup Elite+ Red (1x8GB 3200Mhz CL-22) I run 1 NVME SSD for games and a new Seagate Barracuda HDD for Windows Ive been using this system for around 6 years now with no problem as bad as this one, I upgraded the initial 2x4GB with the 1x8GB around 3+ years ago and ive never really had any issues I havent been able to resolve on my own Any help would be greatly appreciated, im going insane not able to grind ranked

Random Crashing while Gaming

By ItsHunterM8
April 30 in Troubleshooting

Go to solution Solved by ItsHunterM8, May 18

I figured it out

I borrowed a GPU and 2 ram sticks from my universities computer lab and after switching out my parts one by one I found that the problem was indeed the ram.

I guess my ram experienced something which caused it to become faulty. My lecturer proposed that it mightve been a voltage spike since that pretty common in Indonesia in houses that don't use stabilisers. I have a stabilizer at home but not in my apartment, which is where I'm currently using my pc, and so I guess a voltage spike very well could've been the reason for it.

Now I gotta get new ram but these prices are the exact same as 4 years ago when I got my ram sticks

Thanks for all the help guys I rlly appreciate it

Posted May 18

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I figured it out

I borrowed a GPU and 2 ram sticks from my universities computer lab and after switching out my parts one by one I found that the problem was indeed the ram.

Now I gotta get new ram but these prices are the exact same as 4 years ago when I got my ram sticks

Thanks for all the help guys I rlly appreciate it