Getting a lot of blue screens while web browsing since the Win10 April Update?

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Getting a lot of blue screens while web browsing since the Win10 April Update?

Post by BegoneThoth » Mon May 07, 2018 4:00 pm

The update dropped a few days ago for most and will roll out for the rest of us soon. There's an issue where there are random blue-screens while web-browsing or using discord, usually blaming genuine intel though blaming the GPU driver also happens.

To fix this, until MS rolls out a fix later this week, go into Chrome, Firefox, and Discord, and disable "hardware acceleration" in each, then restart. Having any of these open with hardware acceleration on at any point pretty much puts you on borrowed time before a crash, so flip them all off and reboot.

This should be fixed in a few days, but I've had to help out a few people now who have been suffering this bug so I thought I'd just post it here.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-1 ... me-issues/
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