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Luke Jackson
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Hi, I've been having this issue for over a year now and recently its happening every game session.

I've tried multiple games... Fortnite, HOI4, Halo, Left 4 dead 2 etc... and every time my game will randomly black screen and then crash. I've updated drivers and double checked components are functioning properly. Just wondering if anyone can attempt to shed some light on this for me. Ill post my specs and event viewer error below.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

RAM 32GB

 

 

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  • 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
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  • Corsair SPEC-03 Blue LED Gaming PC Case 
  • 450W Power Supply
  • Gigabyte AMD760G Chipset Motherboard

 

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Just adding on, this is the relevant warning error that follows up.

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  • AMD Piledriver FX-6350 Six Core 3.90GHz Processor
  • 1TB Hard Drive
  • 120GB AFOX SSD
  • 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
  • NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB DDR5
  • Corsair SPEC-03 Blue LED Gaming PC Case 
  • 450W Power Supply
  • Gigabyte AMD760G Chipset Motherboard

 

New Rig:

  • Intel core I5-6600K 3.5GHz Processor
  • 1TB HDD
  • 240GB Samsung SSD
  • 16GB 2333MHz DDR4 RAM
  • ICHILL Nvidia Geforce 980ti
  • 850W PSU
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13 hours ago, Luke Jackson said:

Hi, I've been having this issue for over a year now and recently its happening every game session.

I've tried multiple games... Fortnite, HOI4, Halo, Left 4 dead 2 etc... and every time my game will randomly black screen and then crash. I've updated drivers and double checked components are functioning properly. Just wondering if anyone can attempt to shed some light on this for me. Ill post my specs and event viewer error below.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

RAM 32GB

 

 

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Does this happen with a fresh Windows install?  As a last ditch effort, I would reinstall the machine.  Windows, chipset, Nvidia drivers, etc.

 

The GPU could be failing, the PSU could be tripping due to it failing or the GPU's failing triggering a protection, could be RAM or CPU as a very rare case...

 

Reinstall Windows to rule out software at least.  

"Do what makes the experience better" - in regards to PCs and Life itself.

 

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Yeah I re-installed windows previously due to this. It is an older system so that could be the reason. Ill try your suggestions. Ill let you know how i get along 😄

Rig (OLD): 

  • AMD Piledriver FX-6350 Six Core 3.90GHz Processor
  • 1TB Hard Drive
  • 120GB AFOX SSD
  • 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
  • NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB DDR5
  • Corsair SPEC-03 Blue LED Gaming PC Case 
  • 450W Power Supply
  • Gigabyte AMD760G Chipset Motherboard

 

New Rig:

  • Intel core I5-6600K 3.5GHz Processor
  • 1TB HDD
  • 240GB Samsung SSD
  • 16GB 2333MHz DDR4 RAM
  • ICHILL Nvidia Geforce 980ti
  • 850W PSU
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On 2/22/2026 at 6:24 PM, Luke Jackson said:

Hi, I've been having this issue for over a year now and recently its happening every game session.

I've tried multiple games... Fortnite, HOI4, Halo, Left 4 dead 2 etc... and every time my game will randomly black screen and then crash. I've updated drivers and double checked components are functioning properly. Just wondering if anyone can attempt to shed some light on this for me. Ill post my specs and event viewer error below.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

RAM 32GB

 

 

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Probably RAM instability. Do you have 2 or 4 sticks? Motherboard on latest UEFI? Is anything undervolted or overclocked [CPU? GPU? RAM?]?

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