Steam - Windows Getting Blue Screen of Death in Windows 10

[ampatron]

Recently I've been getting the BSOD with the message THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE DRIVER while playing. I'm pretty sure this started coming after I got the latest Windows 10 update since I had no problems before then.

The first two times I had this problem was right after hitting record on Windows' game bar (I haven't used recording for this game since, but I've confirmed that the game bar works fine when I play UNIEL). I still get it sometimes when I play. I've gotten it in training mode, and once each in arcade mode and the character select screen. I haven't gotten it in versus or online play although my sample size may be small (I very rarely play those modes at home) but I feel like I get crashes in around half of my play sessions, which are around half an hour long each if it doesn't crash.

I play on Steam, and only ever have Google Chrome open in the background (if anything at all). Only thing that's come to mind in regards to a fix is reinstalling, which didn't help. I've also always played the game in windowed view instead of full screen, if that matters.

Has anyone had problems of this sort? Does anyone have recommendations on what to try?

 

[Cheesedragon]

Open up the case and pull that thread outta there!

 

[skull person]

Open up the case and pull that thread outta there!

Holy smokes this actually got me good I'm howling.

Serious Issues

The programmer is on vacation and I've never had this issue or seen this issue (I run Win10).

All I can suggest is to start here with this google search for your specific issue and try a bunch of the solutions that "solved" the problem for the users posting about it.

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourcei...-8#q=windows+10+thread+stuck+in+device+driver

The first post is about reinstalling your GPU drivers for example.

If it's still happening after you've looked through all the common solutions, maybe you can provide a more detailed crash log from Windows (or Skullgirls if it's able to make one before the computer crashes) in a pastebin file?

If Skullgirls crashes it tries to make a log file in the .exe folder.
They have names like "skullgirls_2354651172_crash_2016_8_14T3_40_13C0"
The file type is .mdmp

There's a good chance that if you're getting a BSOD it won't have a chance to do that but it's worth checking the game folders.

\SteamApps\common\Skullgirls Beta
\SteamApps\common\Skullgirls

 

[SugarDots]

How much RAM do you have installed in your PC? Chrome gobbles up as much as it can get, while Skullgirls needs a fair bit to itself as well. My laptop nearly crashed playing Skullgirls once because it ran out of memory, even though my laptop has 4GBs of RAM to work with. (Couldn't figure out how to restart the Explorer process manually, so I rebooted.) This never happens on my desktop with 8GBs of RAM, thankfully.

BSODs are totally irrelevant in this case, though. They're (usually) the result of drivers or programs crashing while in kernel mode, iirc. Have you updated your hardware drivers recently? What anti-virus do you use? Do you have extra drivers installed? Modern Windows might have its problems, but it's not always super difficult to troubleshoot because it tells you what went wrong.

I ask about anti-viruses since some "free" or cheap anti-virus solutions like to cause BSOD's. I've seen nasty BSODs from Norton and AVG, mostly AVG. (AVG is a bloated, repulsive trash fire for the performance conscious. Norton is terrible too, but it's not half as bad.)