Windows 10 randomly crashes and goes into blue screen after playing in batocera

JustNairb

My laptop is a hp pavilion with an i5 4th gen and a geforce 840m 4gb ram. I run batocera with a external hard drive. I was able to boot to batocera with legacy mode enabled and secure boot disabled. I played gb, gba, n64, wiiu games on it. Now i removed my external hdd to boot to windows 10 suddenly it starts crashing, boot loops, and goes to blue screen. I was able to make it to the lockscreen/desktop by disabling legacy and enabling secure boot but it randomly shuts down and goes to blue screen. I can still boot to windows and use it but i dont know when will it crash and goes to blue screen. I do have a 2nd laptop my predator that has an I5 10th gen and rtx 3060 on it, and it runs great on batocera but now i am a bit scared to run it in my predator laptop. Any help?

Atari

You should probably ask about this in the Windows support forum.

Batocera is not capable of touching other drives, unless of course if you explicitly set it to “use this drive as your external storage”, which is very intentional. Even then, all it does is create a new folder on that drive, not exactly anything that would “cause blue screens”.

jcduss59

According to me it has nothing to do with Batocera.

BSOD could have many different causes , few samples ex:

common hardware issues such as HDD/SSD dying slowly or RAM defect
Drivers issues
Antivirus software issues
…

You should start to test every hardware components with a boot usb key like “UltimateBootCD” and do external backup of your files.

JustNairb

jcduss59 hey thanks for the info. I have concluded that the main problem is the old hp laptop itself. My predator still runs perfectly, and i have been playing batocera ever since i posted in this forum.

May I also ask if you know any fix in PCSX2 issue in batocera v35. I can run games but only using Opengl which makes games run in slow mo. If i try to run games using the vulkan backend, it only shows black screen but i can still hear the audio of the game. your help is very much appreciated. (i want to play using vulkan because i do have a rtx 3060 mobile gpu)

jcduss59

To me, your 3060 mobile should do the trick natively with PS2.

I ran it on GoW on a i7 4th gen + T600. issue with fix but the game seems to ran smoothly. Also with katamari damacy, it was ok.

So there is maybe something to dig regarding the mobile video card… Sometimes it’s not enabled by default (so this is your APU working) and you may need to force it. It the boot.config I assume @Atari ?

Share a screenshot of your device information within batocera to verify the GPU is detected.

jcduss59

https://wiki.batocera.org/supported_pc_hardware

Everything is here regarding “hybrid”