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Wistrict
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Aug 14, 2025

Random Crashes to a Black Screen. No Errors.

I'm a little stumped on this one and I'm not even sure its a Windows issue, but for a couple months now when I run some software my screen will go black and the sound will stop randomly. There's no way out of this black screen, there's no errors given, no BSOD, no warning, no feed back that pressing keys is doing anything, and it happens with multiple programs. Because of how random it is I can't even recreate it.

A couple months ago it was happening in just one game I play where at least once a session my screen would go black and then a second or two later the sound of the game would stop. And it was only that game until this past weekend where it happened again playing a different game, and happened yet again with a 3rd game today. It doesn't happen with any non-game software. I've tried unplugging the monitor and plugging it back in to no luck. The only way out of this is to completely reboot my computer. I've also thought it might have to do with video drivers, but its happened across multiple driver versions.

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  • TheoDalton's avatar
    TheoDalton
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    Even though you’ve tried multiple driver versions, consider doing a clean uninstall of your graphics driver (using DDU – Display Driver Uninstaller) and then install the latest stable version.

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