Microsoft hotfix for CTD problems.

[cyclone3d]

While I was benching last night, I started having CTD problems. Made no sense as everything had been working fine for a couple hours... then BAM! it just kept crashing.

Did a bit of searching for a specific error that popped up that I hadn't seen before. It led me to a page where somebody mentioned a hotfix from MS to fix CTD errors.

Apparently it happens if Windows things it has been too long for the video driver to respond.

It was released for Vista and Windows 7, but I verified that it works on Windows 10 as well. Just a simple registry setting.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2665946#bookmark-letmefixitmyselfalways

I did some testing after I applied it and it actually does keep CTD game crashes from happening... the downside is that it negatively affects fps.

I did not try changing the default value from what Microsoft says to set it to so their recommended setting may just be way overkill.

I am pretty sure my crashing was happening due to the RAM timings I had set so today I set it back to default timings and removed the registry setting and it didn't crash.

Now I have to go back and figure out which setting(s) are causing the problem. Not convinced that it is actually my RAM having issues. I am more inclined to think that it is a timing issue with a specific piece of code.

 

[primetime]

Oh didn't you know, ALL you have to do is switch those pos amd cards to nvidia and all your pc problems are cured. TY you for proving that some people actually have common sense trouble shooting skills. In all honestly i did get those on occasion at one time, and disabling hardware acceleration in chrome stopped them at the time. But since the last Windows 10 driver released, I have noticed i can run acceleration on at all times and have not had one since, so they must have ironed out what ever chrome bug in that last driver release....for me anyway.

 

[jwcalla]

Oh didn't you know, ALL you have to do is switch those pos amd cards to nvidia and all your pc problems are cured.

WRONG.

The best answer is to switch to Linux.

 

[Araxie]

Oh didn't you know, ALL you have to do is switch those pos amd cards to nvidia and all your pc problems are cured. TY you for proving that some people actually have common sense trouble shooting skills. In all honestly i did get those on occasion at one time, and disabling hardware acceleration in chrome stopped them at the time. But since the last Windows 10 driver released, I have noticed i can run acceleration on at all times and have not had one since, so they must have ironed out what ever chrome bug in that last driver release....for me anyway.

Funny thing it's that I never had a CTD issue with any card used even AMD. However I'm installing a new 390X to toy a bit some time and it's plagued of CTD and issues in the sabertooth 990FX platform. But it's running flawlessly in a secondary sabertooth z77.. machine.. weird things..