BSOD - Is there a procedure to report Blue Screens?

[Snacko]

I had the Stock game and Alpha for about the last year+, and converted my Stock game folder over to the 1.5.8 Beta about a months ago. I never had BSOD with the Stock game or Alpha. But I am getting it frequently with v1.5.8.

 

So, I am wondering if there is a procedure to report anything about it since it's a complete Windows 10 crash?

[Snacko]

Well, if it helps.. It is only happening in the v1.5.8 Beta when I am in Active Pause(LShift+LWin+Pause) for several minutes I think. I think I have mostly been in the Harrier when this happened.

 

I get no BSOD with any other games or software. My system has been very stable as far as BSOD is concerned. This is not a Hardware issue. And I have updated my nVidia drivers at least once since it started..

[aairon]

Well, if it helps.. It is only happening in the v1.5.8 Beta when I am in Active Pause(LShift+LWin+Pause) for several minutes I think. I think I have mostly been in the Harrier when this happened.

 

I get no BSOD with any other games or software. My system has been very stable as far as BSOD is concerned. This is not a Hardware issue. And I have updated my nVidia drivers at least once since it started..

 

If you could post your crash .dmp file as an attachment (I am assuming you have Windows configured to save minidump files) I can give you some clues or you can look yourself to find exactly which module is responsible.

Otherwise you can guess and scratch your head all day long wondering when it's on your machine in black and white in a .dmp file!

Try googling 'bluescreenview' !

Edited January 27, 2018 by aairon

[BIGNEWY]

after you have rebooted check your windows event viewer for clues.

 

I havn't seen DCS create a BSOD since I have been here, generally it is some other issues, but the event viewer should give you some clues.

[Snacko]

Thanks. The MiniDump is attached.

 

@BIGNEWY,

I do not see anything in the Event Log near the time of the BSOD. The closest things were 4-5 minutes before the crash.

 

Also, DCS has been crashing when I Exit the game for about 3+ months. It happens with the Alpha, Beta, (and I think the stock game, but I cannot remember since I replaced that with the Beta a month ago). I have updated my nVidia Drivers at least once during this period, maybe twice, and that did not fix it. I have also stopped every program, even all the programs in the SysTray, and that also did not fix the Crash on Exit. The Event Log and DCS.log indicate these crashes are with DX11Backend.dll, so I thought it might be an overlay problem, like FRAPS, Afterburner, ReShade or something like that, but even when I do a repair, run with no mods and stop all programs, and systray apps, it still crashes on Exit. But it has not been a BSOD and I don't think is directly related to this BSOD. But I don't know..

[Snacko]

PS: I read a resolution to a similar DX11Backend.dll problem with Auto cad. And just spent 2 hours uninstalling all of my C++ Redistributable files to no avail. Still crashing on exit.

[aairon]

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE ntoskrnl.exe

 

You can google that.

It's been quite some time for me but I've has this before, I'll try to remember but the threads should help point you in the right direction.

 

012718-33375-01.dmp 1/26/2018 5:32:13 PM DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE 0x0000009f 00000000`00000003 ffffe08e`48684060 fffff802`f40f57f0 ffffe08e`61297010 ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+1640e0 x64 ntoskrnl.exe+1640e0

[Snacko]

From what I read, that ntoskrnl.exe is the Windows main NT OS kernal. It is the default app reported when the system doesn't know anything else. It's possible that some app wrote in the kernals memory space and the kernal read something it didn't expect and crashed. So, I don't know what this tells me.

[aairon]

ntoskrnl.exe is not the only thing in the line I posted, so you googled that exact same

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE ntoskrnl.exe

And that's all you came up with?

 

 

Shame....:(

 

Funny My google seems to function differently perhaps it's a geographical thing, because if I copy that and paste that entire thing above into google search, I get something more then what you got.

 

P.S. I know you're not going to want to hear this but you very likely have a hardware issue with your GPU, most will get upset upon hearing this and say there is no way but in the end you'll find it's tied to the GPU.

Youre not having issues with other games etc because they aren't using graphics ram like this sim does.

Normally 4 GB is good enough but if for some reason it's cutting you off at 2 gb gpu ram then that's the exact same failure that will give.

Edited January 28, 2018 by aairon

[Snacko]

Well a few days later I realized that this issue started around the same time as when I last updated my video drivers last January. And after rolling my nVidia Drivers back to the previous version the next day. No more bsod. Then the next day nVidia notified of a even newer driver. I hoped it would work better, but it gave me the same bsod. So I am back on the v388 December drivers. And no bsod for 10 days.

 

So no hardware issue. Just drivers.. Nobody else I could find on the Nvidia forums has posted about this problem.