Why are all my games crashing?

Psychosocial94 · 2 Nov 2017 at 09:31

There must be an underlying problem with my PC because the handful of games I'm playing at the moment, nearly all are crashing to desktop and I can't figure out for the life of me why!

My specs:
Windows 10 (Games were crashing before the latest Curators update too)
ASUS Strix Z270i Mini ITX mobo
i5-7600k CPU (OC'd to 4.2ghz, I had it at 4.5 but reduced it thinking it might be causing a problem; crashes still persist)
Corsair H100i V2 240mm Liquid Cooler
EVGA 650W G3 PSU
Samsung 850 M.2 1TB SSD
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000mhz (I have the XMP profile enabled on my mobo to get the 3000mhz speeds, could this be an issue?)
NVIDIA GTX 970 (not overclocked)

What's happening:
Telltale Batman - Graphical artifacts in some scenes then freezes (infrequent)
Borderlands 2 - When there's a lot going on on screen it freezes (infrequent)
Divinity Original Sin 2 - Random crashes to desktop, error report opens, says it's a DirectX error. Searching online other people are also experiencing a DirectX error (frequent, after 5-10 minutes)
PUBG - Random crashes to desktop, error report opens (frequent, after 5-10 minutes)
Destiny 2 - Random crashes to desktop (frequent, after 5-10 minutes)
Witcher 3 - Plays fine
Dishonored 2 - Plays fine

I have the latest NVidia drivers and have tried a clean re-install of the drivers to no avail.
I've tried compatibility settings, running as admin, changing resolutions and window modes etc.
Back in September I moved my PC in the car. It was about a 4hr journey in total, I had it packed safe in the boot and drove carefully but since this move I've installed the other games (Divinity, Destiny, Batman and Borderlands) and they've been crashing/freezing too. PUBG was crashing before the move but I attributed that to the fact it's an early access game.
Could this move have caused some hardware damage? When I get time this weekend I'm going to re-seat the RAM and GPU.
Would a clean install of Windows help?

Note it's only games which are crashing, I can stream on Netflix and YouTube or do anything else and my PC is fine.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Psychosocial94 · 4 Nov 2017 at 18:12

Thanks for all the suggestions but I've tried all of the above today and no still having the same problems.

I reseated my components, removed all overclocks, ran prime95 and memtest and was looking nice and stable. I opened HW Monitor to watch my temps and started Destiny 2. Within 15 minutes I crashed to desktop, same with the other games. CPU temp never went above 54c. GPU maxed at 81c.
I did notice my max clock speed was 3818mhz which I'm not sure is normal if the base clock is meant to be 3.8ghz, perhaps there's a setting in the ASUS BIOS which is affecting my clock speeds??

I'm really at a loss here

Psychosocial94 · 4 Nov 2017 at 18:17

Also, this is what Event Viewer is saying at the time of crashing:

Application Logs:
Source: ESENT
DllHost (5232,G,0) The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000.

System Logs:
Source: nvlddmkm
The description for Event ID 13 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\Video3
Graphics Exception: ESR 0x404490=0x80000001 (and another event at the same time but the graphics exception says MISSING_MACRO_DATA)

the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table

I have no idea what these mean, I'm hoping one of you clever people do?

Psychosocial94 · 6 Nov 2017 at 21:19

I've tried a clean install of Windows and unfrotunately I'm still crashing. I think I'm going to try and underclock my GPU see if that helps. But if that doesn't fix it, do you think I should send my GPU back to the manufacturer?

Psychosocial94 · 7 Nov 2017 at 22:17

Ok, just to update; I've even tried underclocking my GPU but I'm still randomly crashing.

I've underclocked the core by 200~mhz and the Memory by 100~mhz. I've never touched GPU clocks before so I don't know if this is enough to really make a difference without causing any further damage?

Looks like it's time to test the RAM one stick at a time...

Psychosocial94 · 8 Nov 2017 at 12:22

Doco said:
trying the igpu?

How does one go about testing the internal gpu to confirm it is infact a faulty GPU?

Gimpymoo said:
reset the case mobo header connectors.

Is this a simple case of unplugging then plugging them back in?

If testing one RAM stick at a time doesn't get me anywhere I'm definitely going to re-plug everything in.

Psychosocial94 · 8 Nov 2017 at 19:16

imginy said:
Have you tried using ddu to remove driver and switching to an old version as the latest nvidias have a lot of problems.

I have thought of rolling back, but wasn't sure how far. I have read people are still using 382.53 Jun 09, 2017 and running new releases fine so I might give that a go too.

Psychosocial94 · 9 Nov 2017 at 00:03

imginy said:
yeah try that,

In the past I had crashing and it turned out to be faulty ssd drive and another time it was memory clocked to high.

Tried rolling back to 382.53 and still crashed.

I've ruled out memory clock. I underclocked by 200mhz~ and I was still crashing.

Psychosocial94 · 9 Nov 2017 at 22:29

Doco said:
Remove your gpu and connect your display to the output on your io panel - they directly connect to the igpu on your 7600

Yeah, I meant do I need to run any stress tests or is it just to see if it works?

Psychosocial94 · 11 Nov 2017 at 12:16

I forgot to even mention that stree testing my using Heaven resulted in the same artifacts, crashes and events in the event log. Is that not a sure sign of a faulty GPU?