Since I've upgraded my laptop to Windows 10, The Sims 4 has been randomly crashing and my laptop restarts itself. I searched this problem online and found a Windows driver issue called DPC_Watchdog_Violation. I updated the Microsoft iastor.sys driver as per the instructions I found and it worked for about 3 weeks, but recently the game has been crashing again. I don't always remember to save and I've lost hours of gameplay recently. This is especially concerning since I've just started competing in this forum's Challenges.
I'm not sure if this is a Windows 10 issue or a Sims 4 issue, but it ONLY happens when I'm playing Sims 4. Has anyone else had this problem and if so, do you know of something other than the "fix" offered by Microsoft which is obviously not working?
Laptop specs summary:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Processor: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 2.40GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX
SSD 1TB
Thanks for your help!!
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