Hard lockups w/ BSOD

[materia]

Starting this weekend (both before the pre-build and again after) I've been getting a lockup-crash after about a half hour in Starmade, it's followed by BSOD crashes on startup afterwards blaming a 'nvlddmdk.sys' after the crash.

Booting to safe mode and reinstalling my old GeForce 570's drivers allows me back into normal computer use. This lockup-crash has only happened while SM is running.

Any ideas on a fix I could do? I thought it was a memory leak, but the windows resource monitor didn't show anything out of the ordinary.

update: it dead, can't boot outside safe mode. RIP 570.

 

[AndyP]

That looks like some hardware defect or a broken driver installation.

If it does crash only under Starmade or other video intensive games, it could be a cooling problem and you may want to monitor the temperature sensors while playing.

- Andy

 

[materia]

Yea, it was the video card. it had a good life but now I've mounted it on my wall.

new 1070 to replace it came in today, already installed and all is well ^_^ Thanks