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  1. Any high usage of my GPU causes crash of game, or sometimes my pc.


    Hello, my computer is somewhat new, i bought it prebuilt in december 2023. Just out of nowhere my computer decided to crash games not long after starting them up and even some artifacts on my screen that appear for less than a second.I've tried everything from DDU and fully cleaning my drive and reinstalling windows. Any help would be appreciated..Dump file is posted belowWindows 11RTX 4090i9 13900K64 GB RAM 4x16********************************************************************************

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    Benny Cervantes, Jan 25, 2025
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  2. NKY
    nky Win User

    High GPU usage causing audio to cuts off

    First sorry if I post in the wrong section, since it's either graphic card or sound card.

    The problem as title says, whenever GPU usage hits high usage (90-100%) when playing games it will cut off the audio. I took some video of it from witcher 3 gameplay with vsync off =>

    As for normal use like browsing the net, watching youtube, watching movie, etc works just fine.

    Things that I observe that any apps that cause high gpu usage will cause the same things or causing realtek plug/unplugged notification went crazy, like running userbenchmark (only at gpu test), 3dmark, unigine, etc.

    Any idea where might be the cause? Just for reference I never had a problem with the system circa 2017-2018, most of issue appear in mid 2019 circa windows 10 build 1809/1903 update.
     
  3. brain829 Win User
    Desktop Windows Manager high GPU usage persists

    Several individuals have reported Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) using unrealistic amounts of GPU for video playback, gaming, or any high graphics intensive activity. Here is a list of just a few of the many requests for support on this issue:

    Example 1

    Example 2

    Example 3

    Example 4

    Example 5

    It has been a few years now that this problem has been reported, are there any accepted fixes. From what I gather, even those individuals with serious graphics cards are vulnerable to dwm.exe dominating their available GPU. I myself report this issue, even
    on games and design software with the settings at a minimum. For example, Java will be using ~45% of the available GPU, whereas dwm.exe takes up the remaining ~55%. As stated previously, the result is the entire system halting, not just the game. The mouse
    will take a few seconds to stutter across the screen, and task manager will take 5+ seconds to even appear.

    There have been many suggestions and no results. Is that Microsoft's consensus then? Thank you ahead of time.
     
    brain829, Jan 25, 2025
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  4. Any high usage of my GPU causes crash of game, or sometimes my pc.

    PC Continuously Crashing After a Game is Launched. GPU or Memory Issue?

    My PC continuously crashes after the GPU is strained, even if it's just a little bit. The issue can't be traced to overheating since my PC typically crashes around 50 degrees Celsius. It consistently crashes around a minute or two after booting up a game,
    problem is consistent between two different launchers that I've tried (Steam and GOG Galaxy) and whenever I ran Heaven benchmark the PC would crash in under a minute. I wasn't running any other application except for MSI Afterburner to monitor heat and memory
    usage, I've noticed that the memory usage would be high but that my PC would only crash if I had heaven benchmark open, but if I alt tabbed the PC wouldn't crash, I'm still not entirely certain if the issue can be traced back to my GPU or memory though.

    I've tried upgrading my drivers for my GPU but that didn't seem to stop my PC from crashing whenever I ran a GPU intensive application. I'm struggling to identify what part of my PC is malfunctioning since I'm brand new to PCs and I really need assistance
    since I've been unsuccessful so far and nothing seems to work while things seem to be getting worse, please help, thanks.

    Specs

    • GPU: MSI Radeon RX570 OC Edition 4GB GDDR5
    • CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz
    • Memory: Corsair 2x8GB 2133MHz
    • 1T SSD
    • PSU: CX 550M
    • Motherboard: AsRock B450M
     
    YurtMcCurt, Jan 25, 2025
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