Steam crashing constantly on Win 10

[DaveImagery]

Hi all,

 

For the past few weeks, steam has been randomly crashing on me.  Not sure if this problem is related to a windows update or what, but prior to a few weeks ago, I had no problems.  My two pc's are hard wired, no WiFi. Nevertheless, I power cycled both my router and modem, steam still crashes on me.  Verified I'm getting my full 100mb up / 100mb down, with no packet loss.  Reinstalled steam, tried the steam Beta, still crashing.  Wiped my drive, reinstalled Windows, all latest drivers, still cashing.  Copied my steam folder onto my Windows 7 PC, and all is fine.  I would try running steam in safe mode with networking, but I literally have no games on steam that will run in that mode.  My router has latest firmware.  Thinking there might be some kind of software conflict, I killed everything that's non essential.  Event viewer and Device manager show no problems.  Steam support requested dump files, which I sent to them, but that was over a week ago, so not holding my breath.

 

Appreciate any ideas, or if someone knows how I can read the steam crash dump files myself.  It looks like some kind of alien language.  lol

 

System Specs:

 

I7 3770K @4.7Ghz (on water)

Asus Maximus V Gene Motherboard (latest bios)

EVGA GTX 980 Classified (tried latest and also previous drivers, clean uninstalled with DDU)

16gb 2133mhz Corsair Dominator Ram

Samsung 840 Pro 256gb SSD's X2 in RAID 0

WD Black 4tb X2 storage drives

Corsair 850watt PSU

Windows 10 Pro 1709 Build 16299.248

[DaveImagery]

wow, the response is overwhelming.

 

mods please delete post, fuck it