Correct. I'll say more hard freeze(no blue screen), black screens and random restarts. Blue screens usually come from other hardware or software issues.

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I then move my cursor around on the screen and pan the map and hear a single short click. The system may lock up for a second and then things start working normally.

This sounds exactly like a HDD about to die. Even SSDs that are about to die act in the same manor.

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After doing this for about a minute or 2, the game will freeze, but not the computer. Eventually, the system either comes back, blue screens, or just completely turns off.

This is where it becomes confusing. This now sounds closer to other hardware issues besides HDD.

Download Passmark's DisckCheckup and/or Spinrit from GRC.

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Posted by SouthBendBob

Rockland County, NY

Member since Mar 2013

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Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:20 pm to LSU Coyote

Ok, I downloaded DiskCheckup from Passmark. It has everything labeled as "OK" and doesnt show any problems. I ran its short test, which passed. I started the game up and watched the read/write data lines during the clicking. Both showed zeros during the click and occasionally had some values between clicks.

This time, the system blue screened and restarted with the CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION error. As far as I can tell, this just means that a critical system process ended, but Microsoft's website doesn't list potential causes for this.

I should also note that I've been troubleshooting this problem for a few days and I've done a few tests such as Windows 7's chkdsk and I also downloaded a drive test package from Western Digital's website. Ran these tests separately, which took about 2+ hours each. Both came back as passing. I've also run tests on the RAM using Memtest86. I ran memtest86 over night for about 6 total passes. This also came back fine.

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