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Nighthawk A8000 AXE3000 WiFi Adapter causing Blue Screen, when using Discord, and launching ONE game
I have been having an issue in the last few weeks, where my PC (Windows 10) blue screens, when I go from the launcher of ARMA 3 to the game. It checks BattleEye (which I assume is an online-only thing) and then loads the game, or blue screens.
It works about 33% of the time, that the game loads, without issue.
I never get a BSOD from my PC doing anything else, no other games, not using the internet, video processing, downloads, etc.
I think it is somehow related to Discord as well, because there seems to be some correlation between it BSOD with an even higher (than 67%) failure rate if I am in a voice channel when launching the game. It may be 100%, who knows, because that was one of the first things I identified, to make it launch properly at least some of the time (to exit Discord voice channel before launching).
Well, why do I think it is the adapter, and not RAM or Discord or whatever else? Yesterday I plugged out the adapter before launching the game, worked on the first try (doesn't prove anything yet) and after it launched, I plugged in the Wifi adapter. Instant blue screen. Literally never had a blue screen so fast before.
I have tried everything in regards to updating drivers. Motherboard drivers, Netgear drivers. (everything except BIOS)
Now that I am confident I have isolated the problem... Well... Any tips on how to fix it? Is the game launching somehow causing the adapter to shut off, and back on again (power saving?), which only happens 66% of the time, hence the BSOD?
I am always really hesitant with errors that are not 100% reproducible (i.e. don't happen absolutely every time) because it is always possible to make the problem worse. Any suggestions?
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I wouldn't say I've found a solution but maybe this workaround helps someone else. What I was able to do is, I put Steam in offline mode while launching the game. For whatever reason it is then not checking for the presence of internet/Wifi adapter, and it doesn't trigger the blue screen. Then I can put Steam in online mode once the game is loaded, without any drama.