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a persistent instability issue on a NAVE Stellar GM6IX0X notebook (i7-14700HX, RTX 4060), which results in multiple games crashing and closing unexpectedly. The flaw occurs exclusively when the NVIDIA RTX 4060 dedicated GPU is in use and is consistently associated with games that use kernel-level anti-cheat software, such as Elden Ring and Fortnite.
The investigation revealed that the crashes are caused by a critical NVIDIA driver flaw, evidenced by multiple “nvlddmkm” errors in the Windows Event Viewer. In addition, analysis of memory dump files (“crash dumps”) points to memory access violation errors (ExceptionCode: c0000005) within the game process, a classic symptom of underlying hardware instability leading to data corruption.
An exhaustive series of diagnostic and troubleshooting procedures were carried out, including the clean reinstallation of all platform drivers (NVIDIA and Intel), the application of conservative power settings in both the BIOS (“Balanced Mode”) and the Control Center software (limiting PL1/PL2), and the activation of NVIDIA's “Debug Mode” to eliminate factory overclocking instability. Despite all these interventions, the problem persists identically.
Notably, dedicated hardware stress tests (including RAM and GPU diagnostics via OCCT) reported no errors.
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