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Fallout 3 and PUBG blackscreen my PC, forcing hard reboot
This is my first time posting here and I rarely use forums so sorry in advance for the mistakes I will make.
My PC is an i5-8600k on an MSI MS-7B22, it has 16GB DDR4, a GTX 960, and runs Windows 10 Pro 64-bit build 16299. My NVIDIA driver is currently rolled back to version 399.24.
I have been trying to figure out what is going on with these crashes for 13 hours straight but I can't seem to pin it down, here is what I have done/know so far
Initially my troubleshooting was focused on Fallout 3 but after a number of unsuccessful attempts at fixing this by modifying the game and messing with .ini files, I realized I forgot to check the event log. The following error was being logged most of the times that these crashes were happening, but not every time.
Faulting application name: dwm.exe, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x7f22d77c
Faulting module name: dwmcore.dll, version: 10.0.16299.522, time stamp: 0x9486cd9f
Exception code: 0x8898008d
Fault offset: 0x000000000001820d
Faulting process id: 0x2054
Faulting application start time: 0x01d4952e800d2a60
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\dwm.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\dwmcore.dll
Report Id: a25abf9f-bd4d-4266-b14d-e0e41d453684
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
So, once I saw that, it seemed to me there was some issue either with a recent Windows update or a recent NVIDIA driver update. I tested it by trying to play PUBG and was then met with the same symptoms I saw with Fallout 3. I wound up running an sfc /scannow (clean), DISM (clean), changed my performance settings, rolled back my windows updates by a few months so that NVIDIA would let me roll back my video card driver a few months, then I tried it again.
This too, failed, so next I decided that since every time the crashes happen, I am either moving or clicking the mouse/entering a keystroke, maybe the issue is with my USB hub or the USB slot the hub is plugged into. So I unhooked both, plugged my input devices in to the slots the hub was NOT plugged into, and tried again, but it was no good.
Shy of a repair install of Windows 10 which I definitely don't want to do, I am basically out of ideas. Attached is the log-rip.