Wierd Game Crashes.

[thenastyjbenny]

I just finished renovating my PC with an Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 mobo, 2500k, and 16gigs of ddr4 g.skill sniper series RAM (1600mhz). I also just kept in my GeForce gtx 460 in the system, I plan on upgrading to the R9 Fury X when Vega and Ryzen releases.

 

On startup, everything worked fine. After installing all the necessary drivers from the Asrock website, (chipset, sata 3, usb 3, but not the sound driver, because I don't need it, looks like.) I benchmarked, played a good bit of rocket league, etc. Everything worked fine. Then, I shut off my PC, satisfied, and went to bed.

 

Next morning, everything worked fine (again). Booted into my desktop and waited (HDD 1st world problems, ugh). After I had the feeling I could move around my desktop without the HDD being slow, I booted into rocket league. Well, you could say booted. As soon as the music started playing, the video started clipping and then the entire thing crashed and totally freaked out. I got really weird noises coming through my headphones, this screaming distorted sound that sounded like the pc was dying essentially. I got really weird half-bits of the screen and weird colours all over the place, getting parts of rocket league and part black, until the system reset itself. Yes, it reset itself. I touched nothing. I repeated this process several times each time with different types of crashes. Sometimes windows forced the system to shutdown, and sometimes it crashed back into the desktop and froze, forcing me to reset the PC myself. Eventually I just decided to reinstall all the drivers to find out what went wrong. I uninstalled the GPU and motherboard drivers without success, each individually to see if that was the problem. Nothing worked. The system works fine under load, I ran heaven and valley, the unigine benchmarks, and found no problems. But I then try and launch rocket league, or any other steam game for that matter, and the system crashes or freezes or resets, or coughs spits and dies.

 

Now I think, what the heck, I'll try downloading those drivers again, what can I lose? Nothing apparently. I download the EXACT SAME chipset driver off the asrock website, reboot, and everything, EVERY GAME launches fine. I think, Huh, that's weird. and then I turn my system on and off again. Now the games will NOT boot at all. I get the freaky noises and broken screens. Sometimes by just rebooting over and over, I get normal booting into the games, but the GPU artifacts like crazy (it also refuses to apply my 300 MHz overclock) and then crashes later down the road.              

 

Does anyone have any idea what could be happening? I suspect something softwareish going on, because in one of my experiments I got the games to run by repairing DX9 to run rocket league, but idk. I really don't know much about this kind of problem. It's probably something dreadfully simple I've overlooked. Thanks for your help