Skyrim Crashing

[mab1376]

My GFs PC crashing on Skyrim about once an hour, she had a GTX 660 Ti running 320.49 drivers and a core 2 quad. Running W7 x64 with 4GB RAM, OS is fully patched. If you're not gaming, it'll stay on for days.

It keeps getting error "page failed in nonpaged area" with stop code 0x000000050 only while playing games, Skyrim specifically.

It's not creating memory dumps, I ran heavy load for 4 hours with no issues, ran full PC-check with no errors on HDD, Processor, mainboard, or memory. Ran check disk with no errors. Ran Memtest which locked up but got no errors. Windows memory diagnostic passed 100%.

Memory SPD and voltage are correct (9-9-9-24 @ 1.5v)

removed all unused drivers from device manager. cleaned registry with registry mechanic and ccleaner. Also removed about 75% of useless startup items.

Added AV exclusions for Steam and Skyrim in avast.

Any ideas?

I'll post more detailed specs of the machine later.

 

[BiggieShady]

Ran Memtest which locked up but got no errors.

Locked up? I wouldn't call it 'without errors'.
Try running it with only one memory module.

 

[mab1376]

ok, good idea. i'll give it a shot tonight.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff559023(v=vs.85).aspx

Bug check 0x50 usually occurs after the installation of faulty hardware or in the event of failure of installed hardware (usually related to defective RAM, be it main memory, L2 RAM cache, or video RAM).

Another common cause is the installation of a faulty system service.

Antivirus software can also trigger this error, as can a corrupted NTFS volume.

I'd try memtest one stick at a time. If all sticks check out good, all that leaves is processor and VRAM. Considering it only does it with games, I'd say VRAM over processor cache.

 

[mab1376]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff559023(v=vs.85).aspx


I'd try memtest one stick at a time. If all sticks check out good, all that leaves is processor and VRAM. Considering it only does it with games, I'd say VRAM over processor cache.

If its the card, that would be nice and easy since it was bought only back in Dec. 2012.

Hopefully its not the Proc.

 

[Black Panther]

Is she playing the vanilla game? If not, tell her to try it out without mods before testing out hardware.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Software (drivers aside) shouldn't be able to cause BSODs. If Skyrim tried to access memory it can't access, Windows normally would kill it (crash to desktop). BSOD's happen when a situation plays out that Windows can't recover from. If Windows tried, it could corrupt data, hence STOP (BSOD).

 

[mab1376]

Is she playing the vanilla game? If not, tell her to try it out without mods before testing out hardware.

Only the high-res texture pack

 

[maksic87]

GPU or RAM

Your BSOD indicates that u have either a GPU driver issue or a RAM issue. I would bet on GPU, don't ask me why. Try instaling a clean set of drivers for your GPU and chipset.

Shown HERE

Afterwards, just in case, as the people above suggested, run memtest x86 from hirens boot to check ram.

I'm 99% sure that problem lies in the GPU but I'm only human so i make errors.

Try it