GTAIV *caused* memory issues?

[TheRBZ]

After hopping on GTA4 on Steam, I had fun for a while when the game firstly crashed, I thought nothing of it. I continued to play and got a BSoD. I went back on but the game was stuck loading, so I quit. On chrome, I would be frequently getting 'Aw Snap' on most pages and while watching YouTube (sometimes took 2 reloads to get to a site). In that day, in total, I had 6 BsOD's. I looked into the issue when it started getting serious (around my third BSoD) which ended me running a windows memory diagnostic and finding I had 'Hardware issues'. I took out one stick and ran again: no issues. swapped sticks in the same slot (only 1 stick in): no issues. put the stick back in the original so (2 sticks in): no issues. I am writing this around ten minutes after putting both sticks in. All seems good (I think it is, at least)

 

Questions I have:

1. Why did/How could GTA4 cause this?

2. Why did only reseating the ram fix the issue?

3. In the future, if I have issues, should I try reseating/swapping the sticks of RAM?

 

Thanks

Edited August 14, 2018 by TheRBZ

[FastRDust]

you could boot your Bios and do a RAM check.

1 faulty sector on a Ram stick can be the problem is this is in slot 1 ( which is used first)

 

if you have reseated it to a later slot it will become a problem if you use more gb of ram and trigger that one.

[AskTJ]

Memory might be failing. Try using task manager and see what happens in the Memory tab with the faulty stick installed.

[TheRBZ]

right now playing GTA4 I have no issues. running on 5.3/7.9GB (trhere were 2x4 gb sticks) so if one is faulty it is working.

Both sticks are in the slots they are meant to be in the manual of my mobo: PRIME-B350 PLUS