GPU crashes when playing gmod

Akeno Via · Monday at 2:35 PM

Randomly when playing Gmod at stretched res, the game causes my GPU to crash with the following event viewer code:

The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load.
Device: ROOT\DISPLAY\0000
Status: 0xC0000365

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+ System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP
[ Guid] {9c205a39-1250-487d-abd7-e831c6290539}

EventID 219

Version 0

Level 3

Task 212

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000002000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2025-06-09T13:24:32.1766863Z

EventRecordID 26100

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 132

Channel System

Computer DESKTOP-MF8URAJ

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-18

- EventData

DriverNameLength 17
DriverName ROOT\DISPLAY\0000
Status 3221226341
FailureNameLength 14
FailureName \Driver\WUDFRd
Version 0

Akeno Via · Monday at 2:38 PM

@Creepis

Lushi · Monday at 2:45 PM

Dont play on stretched res

Smeris · Monday at 3:05 PM

What GPU do you have, what driver version are you currently on and what steps have you already taken to fix this issue?

Akeno Via · Monday at 3:16 PM

Smeris said:
What GPU do you have, what driver version are you currently on and what steps have you already taken to fix this issue?

3060 12gb version, 576.52, I have:

1) DDU'd the gpu, reinstalled an older version, then returned to the newest one
2) Changed the slot of the GPU from the 1st to the 2nd slot on my B550 Aorus Elite V2
3) Cleaned out the parts

I believe I should stop playing stretched on the game's engine that's as old as me, but we'll see if it makes a difference.

Smeris · Monday at 3:25 PM

Can you share the minidumps (.dmp) files? You can google where you can find those, they provide more insight about the cause behind the crash.

Akeno Via · Monday at 7:55 PM

Smeris said:
Can you share the minidumps (.dmp) files? You can google where you can find those, they provide more insight about the cause behind the crash.

So apparently I don't have the dump folder following the steps on google..

Hoblit · 2025-06-11T00:14:07+0100

Roll back to older drivers perhaps, I had issues where my GPU wouldn't be detected by my PC until I rolled my drivers to an older version

Creepis · 2025-06-11T00:34:04+0100

Akeno Via said:
@Creepis

why always meeeee

It could be that DX9 is just a buggy piece of shit for its age, please try playing on native resolution with DSR disabled in the Nvidia control panel and disable all overlays like Discord and even Steam overlay.

My 5080 doesn't like this game either but so far it's only for instant replays being a bit broken.

Akeno Via · 2025-06-11T09:32:37+0100

Creepis said:
why always meeeee

It could be that DX9 is just a buggy piece of shit for its age, please try playing on native resolution with DSR disabled in the Nvidia control panel and disable all overlays like Discord and even Steam overlay.

My 5080 doesn't like this game either but so far it's only for instant replays being a bit broken.

That's what I'm planning on doing, expect I'm trying out setting my resolution from nvidia control panel to stretched (1440x1080) and I'll see the results.
If not, I'll swap to native and see if that works, it's just i prefer stretched to native. I love what tarkov did with aspect ratio and you being able to forcefully change the stretch, but gmod is just too old and doesn't work that well.

alexandrovich · 2025-06-11T11:13:25+0100

Try the 64 bit branch gmod version (Chromium) under betas tab (Steam launch settings before starting the game)

Akeno Via · 2025-06-11T12:21:57+0100

alexandrovich said:
Try the 64 bit branch gmod version (Chromium) under betas tab (Steam launch settings before starting the game)

alexandrovich · 2025-06-11T12:53:34+0100

Akeno Via said:
View attachment 26681

Not only that one, the one in the betas tab:

Akeno Via · 2025-06-11T12:54:59+0100

Have it set too.

GPU crashes when playing gmod

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