I have a very expensive rig and it started crashing while gaming and also when closing a game.

Day to day operation, no blue screen. Gaming blue screen. Actually cascading blue screens. Sometimes takes as many as 4 bluescreen restarts to get back up.

I've done a clean windows install. It is actually worse now.

I've run memtest86. All good.
Furmark 2 to stress the GPU. Fine.
Cooling appears to be fine. No temp over 70 when gaming.
CPU stress tests, all clear. top of the line.
Tried multiple graphics drivers. Same result.
Device manager - nothing wrong in the manager.
I've run the corsair diagnostic results all green.
Even though I have never had dism online health command fix anything. I tried that. Sfc scannow shows no errors.

I assume it is hardware and not software but from the tests, everything works except when gaming.

If it was power, I would think the CPU & GPU tests would have caused it to bluescreen and with Rogue Trader, I can turn the game on and then exit the game. Crash. Yes, I checked integrity of the game and done multiple reintstalls. Yes Owlcat is a buggy developer but the crashing occurs on other games too.

Any ideas on how to figure out which component has gone haywire? I'm probably going to do another complete wipe and start from scratch but I am not optimistic. I think one of the components is the issue but it only glitches out when gaming.

Anyone grabbing it? Let the board know if it is a good port or a cash grab port. I've played through twice so I'm not interested in jumping in immediately but I hope it is a decent port and I'll grab it on sale.

Is there any way on a network to lock all PDFs in a folder to one user at a time?

This will be my last attempt to push some folks to play 3 games that nobody played. In the middle of a Portia play through and still upset that this game tanked at the store.

My Time at Portia - Stardew 2.0. Straight up stole all aspects of Stardew and made it better with tremendous quality of life additions as you level up. Instead of farming, this game focuses on workshop equipment and some farming but you don't need to touch farming. Much longer story, better combat, much better quality of life upgrades. If you didn't mind Stardew graphics don't let the cartoon graphics stop you from playing Portia. I would be surprised if most people who loved Stardew didn't end up loving this one. Easy 80+ hours. Heck, you can have that much just in year 1. You can probably put 200 hours if you have the time setting slowed. My one beef is that it is too chill. I liked rushing the beat the clock in Stardew. In Portia, you just wake up in your bed with no penalty.

Pathfinder Kingmaker - Simply the best CRPG since Baldur's Gate II. Unfortunately the game was released in a shambles so the reviews destroyed it. 4 or 5 months after release, the patches fixed the bugs and they added several quality of life changes that made the core play better. If you like CRPG, I don't understand why you haven't given this one a shot. Great game and cheap as hell anytime steam has a sale. 100+ hours. I think I had 150 but I do every single quest and explore every inch of the map.

Bard's Tale IV - This one isn't for everyone. Some folks don't like the grid based combat but having played the old Bard's Tale games, I think they did a fine job with this spiritual successor to the old franchise. What the screwed up was releasing the game a month or two early. I didn't have any problems with the initial release, but plenty of folks had some graphical issues. I loved the game and the Gaelic score. Loved all of the puzzles and some were actually tough to figure out. The bugs were fixed a few months after release and I think they issued a Director's Cut with additional quality of life features but haven't gotten around to playing it again. I think they state 40+ hours but I put in 80. Twice. I'l probably try out the director's cut before all of the big releases late in the year.

What you got? What are some great games that you don't see anyone playing or talking about?

Please explain to me why Trump asking for Biden to be investigated is illegal / unethical but Obama investigating Trump during the campaign was fine. Oh and once nothing was found on the FISA calls, please explain why the folks on the calls were unmasked and released to multiple departments.



Why is one investigation grounds for impeachment yet the other applauded by liberals?

What are you playing if the power stays on?

Bought a pile of games during the Steam sale...

But....

Witcher Thronebreaker made me want to stop playing it and start playing Witcher 3.

Thronebreaker was fun but it made me want to play Witcher again.

I'm a wee bit late to the party. I had just bought a PS4 when this came out so I had a huge backlog and put this away for a nice rainy day. With the lull in games I want to play, I finally dove in.

Really great game but...

Do the monster level up with the player and maybe even once you visit certain areas?

The pain in the arse bird by the hunting lodge just became borderline unkillable after my trip to Meridian.

Instead of firing one lightning bolt then taking time to fire another, it fires one after the other. Oh and once downed, it can one hit me.

It was a pain in the arse but it now seems like my game switched to very hard even though it is still on normal.

Massive ramp up in difficulty. I was thinking it might be because I hit level 30, went to Meridian or maybe even because I killed one of those big arse Thunder dudes.

I'm not a huge fan of level scaling monsters. I prefer zones with increasing difficulty. This zone was a nice increase with the bird initially kicking my arse until I learned how to kill it. Now the damn thing ramped up to full beast mode.

3 attempts and it seems to hit much harder and fires the bolts much much faster. Just seems odd.

Whatcha playing?

I finished up on Resident Evil 2.

With Metro about to drop, I guess I finally need to play the first 2 and for 8 bucks, the price is right. So I will be playing those until the new game drops.

I've been playing Don't Starve Shipwrecked for a few weeks. I think I was up to about Day 200 as the dry season ended. I was in the Volcano for the end of the dry season. When I exited the volcano, the dry season reset. I still had all the items from the dry season, but the date was pushed back to the start of the dry season. I went through the dry season again, same thing happened. Anyone who has played, knows the dry season sucks. You would not want it to be Ground Hog Day during the dry season. End of game.

I also had about a 75% run of Dragon Age Origins end because I sold every single item to the same vendor to get the bonus gold and it killed my save file about 75% in.

What are your game ending save file corruption tales of woe?

Looks like I can dust off the PSVR.

Borderlands 2 is coming on December 14th.

LINK

There are changes to the game which might be a downer for some folks. No multiplayer.

I'll wait for reviews, but this does have my interest.