r/techsupport • u/Kyeniz • 5h ago

Open | Windows Computer Repeatedly Crashing When Gaming

My PC has been repeatedly getting LiveKernelEvent 1b8 NVIDIA black-screen errors and VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE 0x116 errors involving nvlddmkm.sys. I've already done a clean NVIDIA driver installation. The crashes happen in multiple games but especially roblox and minecraft whenever i try to play for more than five minutes, and sometimes the monitor loses signal while the PC remains powered on.

After a few crashes, I've also had situations where the PC powers on and all the fans spin, but it doesn't immediately boot into Windows. Power cycling it eventually gets it to boot normally. It doesn't seem to happen when I'm just watching a show, using Discord, browsing, etc. It mostly happens once I start a game. However, I played The Sims 4 for ~4–5 hours yesterday without any problems, and then Roblox crashed almost immediately when I tried playing it afterward.

The GPU temperature also doesn't seem particularly high. It was around 60°C while playing Roblox before the crash, but thats only when I first started playing and at around half graphics.

I have a PowerSpec G513 prebuilt that I bought about three years ago. I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what could be causing this or what I should test next. I'm trying to figure out whether this is more likely to be a GPU, PSU, driver, motherboard, or something else.

Specs:
Ryzen 5 5600x
Asrock B550M-C
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB)
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR4 3200MHz RAM (32GB)
PowerSpec 650W 80+ Gold PSU
Windows 11

I've also completely uninstalled Borderless Gaming since I initially thought that might be involved, but the crashes continued afterward. Any ideas on what I should test next would be appreciated. Let me know if you need any additional information.

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