When I start Monster Hunter Wilds within a few seconds of booting Windows 11, the game runs for about five minutes and then the computer shows a blue screen and immediately restarts. Because it reboots so quickly, I never see an error code. If I leave the computer idle for 10–30 minutes before launching the game, the crash usually does not happen. Other programs and less demanding games work normally even when started right after booting. My system has an MSI B350M Gaming Pro motherboard, Ryzen 5 5600, 16 GB of Kingston HyperX DDR4 memory, a GTX 1080 using driver 582.66, an ADATA Legend 710 1 TB SSD where the game is installed, a Toshiba 1 TB hard drive, and a Gigabyte UD750GM power supply.
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Windows may be configured to restart automatically after a blue screen, which is why you never get time to read the stop code. Open System Properties, go to Startup and Recovery, and temporarily disable “Automatically restart.” Then reproduce the crash and record the stop code. Also check Event Viewer around the same timestamp, but the dump file is usually more useful for accurate analysis.
The first step is to get the crash dump instead of guessing. Check C:WindowsMinidump for files created around the crashes, copy them somewhere else, zip them, and share them through a temporary file host. If the folder is empty, configure Windows to create Small Memory Dumps and reproduce the problem. The dump should identify whether this is a graphics driver, hardware, or another kernel-level issue.
I’ll check the Minidump folder and enable small memory dumps if Windows hasn’t created any files.