Random crashes while playing specific games

[Trixy]

Specs :
CPU : I5 7500
GPU : RX 580
RAM : 2x8 GB 2666 MHz DDR 4

OS : Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

 

I bought this PC a couple of days ago, I felt zesty and decided to install windows LTSC on it.
I installed the drivers, the main DirectX and .net requirements and windows updates.

I decided to boot up Dead by Daylight as to test how well the game runs, it ran for about 10 minutes, until it crashed. The crashes weren't the game just closing. My screen went black and showed no signal, every program like discord and Firefox crashed. After a few min if i re plug the monitor it fires back up, without anything open (I've been opting to just restart my PC whenever it happens, its just faster). Whats especially weird is that in several cases after the crashes, my PC forgot my graphics card existed. It was no longer recognized in task manager and the drivers wouldn't work with it anymore. Sometimes id have to reinstall the drivers, other times a normal PC reboot would fix it.

I decided to do some basic stress tests, i left it running for over 30 min. maxing out my GPU and nothing, It didn't crash, nor overheat (i also stress tested my CPU, same result).

 

Later on i realized that it wasn't happening with every game. For the games i did test :
TCG Card Shop Simulator - crashes in the first 10 min
Counter Strike 2 - No crash even after several hours
Dead by Daylight - crashes in the first 10 min
The Forest - crashes in the first 10 min
Terraria - no crash after playing for about 4 hours
Resident Evil 2 - no crash after about an hour

 

I thought it might have been something with DirectX (it might still be idk), because pretty much every game that crashed mainly ran off of DirectX whereas CS2 runs off of Vulkan, but then terraria disproved my theory.

Ive tried reinstalling the drivers multiple times, stress tested a bunch.

 

Currently the only thing i can think of right now i giving the card to a friend and testing it on his PC, just to see if its truly software sided.

 

I need help.

[GuiltySpark_]

17 minutes ago, Trixy said:

Currently the only thing i can think of right now i giving the card to a friend and testing it on his PC, just to see if its truly software sided.

Yes.

 

And if possible another GPU in your system. The fastest possible way to a positive diagnosis. 

[thewelshbrummie]

On 6/19/2025 at 7:02 AM, Trixy said:

OS : Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

That's probably the issue. The IoT Enterprise build of Win 10 isn't standard Win 10 that you can buy at retail, or one that comes with a computer. Instinct tells me that the games you're playing are looking for things that are easily found on a standard version of Windows but not on the IoT version.

 

Note that:

• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021
• Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021

Are different builds of Windows. I've not played with either but I wouldn't be surprised if the IoT version has hordes of drivers and bloat that's very helpful on the Home/Pro versions removed due to them not interfacing with the usual set of hardware that would be expected.

 

The obvious thing to try is a vanilla install of Windows 10 Pro and see if you have the same issues. My guess is that you won't.