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BSOD Exclusively (as of yet) When Playing Valheim - New Build

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Hey people, I'm wondering if you guys can help me here, since I'm at my wits end with this.

So, last week I helped a friend build his first ever PC. He picked the parts, I put it all together, installed Windows, installed the necessary drivers and software and then stress tested the build to make sure that it worked and the temps were fine, and then told him to play some hardware demanding games the next few days to make sure it was okay.

Everything seemed fine until we started playing a game called Valheim together. After a full day of us both playing with no problems, he started getting crashes to desktop after ~30min of play. Soon that evolved to full on shutdowns with BSODs. I started to look into that game's forums and realized that it was indeed causing a variety of problems to many players, including ones with much beefier builds, even bricking some players' hardware. We went through a number of steps to try and fix it for him, since a lot of players had a lot of different solutions to this that seemed to work, to no avail.

We tried to disable some settings in the game, update all his drivers and even disabled XMP. Nothing seems to work and the game is still unplayable to him, though completely fine on my end. We then jumped to other games such as PUBG and Arma 3 and he didn't have a single problem in many hours of play, not with stutters or crashes or temperatures, nothing, it all ran silky smooth with high FPS.

Now, the reason I want your guy's opinions despite knowing that this game is quite buggy and badly optimized is the fact that I built this computer for him, and want to be ABSOLUTELY SURE that it is not some hardware problem that is only making itself known due to shitty programming on a specific game, that may or may not create more problems in the future. If it is and we can identify it now, then we can simply RMA that part and be done with it.

He's getting the following BSODs:

MEMORY_MANAGEMENT - 0x0000001a
ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY - 0x000000be

His build is as follows:
PSU: Corsair CX 550M 550W 80PB
MOBO: MSI A520M DS3H
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.GHz (4.4GHz Turbo)
RAM: 2x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB 2666MHz C16
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Ventus GP OC 6GB
SSD: Kingston A400 480GB

One thing I did noticed while disabling XMP is that his memory sticks, despite coming in the same box, with the same code and specs, from the same store, are actually labeled with different manufacturers, one being Hynix and the other being Samsung. Wondering if this could be it since his BSODs are somehow related to memory. Anyway, I'm attaching a few screenshots showing his temps during play, his event viewer after a crash as well as the minidumps.

Thanks. Looking forward to your opinions on the matter.
 

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g'day chrys and welcome to the forum.

2 new sticks in the same box do not come from different suppliers, as you say.
the shop you got them from has used them before, for building and testing other rigs in the shop, and have put them back in the same box incorrectly.

if this is your issue, I cannot say, but it's at least worth knocking it off the list!

sounds like all his hardware may be compatible with itself, and as you said, it's just that buggy game.
since the game works fine on your rig, and there is a forum of others with issues with the game, the only way for sure to have any faith in getting the game to work would be to match his hardware with yours as much as possible.

if there are reports of this game bricking hardware (not actually sure if this is possible and you have to take some reports with a grain of salt) than I would not even be touching that game.
 
Hey Bruce, thanks for helping me out yet again! You`re awesome dude.

I meant the same box as in the same type of box, sorry for not being clear enough. Their boxes looked exactly the same, same specs, bought from the same store. Same memory, same frequencies, same latencies, different suppliers.

Anyhow, we`ve been testing some more and he only had a single problem once while he was closing Arma 3, some "0xC0000005 Status access violation" I read in the forums could be memory related, so I was thinking of running memtest on his PC to check.

As for the game itself, I've been reading further and I noticed most reports of BSODs and critical failures in that game seem to be stemming from a variety of issues, including but not limited to: Having an RTX series card, having Turbo Mode on in the BIOS, having DOCP and XMP on in the BIOS and running even a very minor overclock on anything. And I am with you in that I didn't even think a game bricking any part was possible, short of it melting due to extreme high temps, but there are some reports of this, surprisingly many, and that is kind of worrying to be honest.

Do those minidumps tell you anything useful? I was wondering if this could be driver related because of some of the errors he was getting...

I guess I will try swapping our GPUs as well to see if it does anything.
 
ok, I'm with you now!
I thought you got a kit of 2 sticks in the same box and each stick was different.

all those things your mention that you found on the web saying what could be causing the errors - do you have any of those specs on your PC?
I'm thinking not since your PC doesn't crash.

changing his memory would be the first thing to try. and yes, a different GPU would also be the next logical thing to swap.

those screen shots don't tell me anything useful.

this is why I stay away from gaming on a PC, buy a new game and it opens a new can of worms, and it shouldn't.
always been a Play Station fanboy myself! :)
 
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