BSOD maybe game related?

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All the dumps are similar and all appear to be memory related, the bugcheck code in each dump was MEMORY_MANAGEMENT due to a corrupt PTE (Page Table Entry). There are no indications that third-party drivers were involved at all in the lead-up to the bugcheck and that's often an indication of a hardware cause. Nor are there any indications of a GPU involvement. The failure happened whilst an address space was being closed and deleted - which is very much a memory related operation - and so my focus is on your RAM. One dump in particular singles out bad RAM as the cause...
Code: 
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  0x1a_61941_PAGE_TABLE_RESERVED_BITS_SET_IMAGE_hardware_ram

In addition, in your Application log, there are a great many application error messages, for different applications, all with memory related exceptions. This is another big clue that this may be a RAM issue.

You could use a RAM tester like Memtest86 but that will take a while to run on 32GB of RAM and since you have 4 sticks of RAM I'm going to suggest that you remove two sticks for a few days, or until you get another BSOD. Then swap the sticks over and run on just the other two for a few days, or until you get a BSOD. Check your motherboard manual to ensure that just two sticks are in the correct slots. This is the gold standard RAM test - and you can use your PC whilst we're testing the RAM.

If you don't want to remove RAM sticks then use Memtest86 to test your RAM...
  1. Download Memtest86 (free), use the imageUSB.exe tool extracted from the download to make a bootable USB drive containing Memtest86 (1GB is plenty big enough). Do this on a different PC if you can, because you can't fully trust yours at the moment.
  2. Then boot that USB drive on your PC, Memtest86 will start running as soon as it boots.
  3. If no errors have been found after the four iterations of the 13 different tests that the free version does, then restart Memtest86 and do another four iterations. Even a single bit error is a failure.
This will detect most RAM errors but not necessarily every possible error (no RAM tester can do that). Plus, you won't be able to use your PC at all whilst Memtest86 is running.

We'll decice what to do next based on the results of this RAM test.
 
Thanks for this info. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool and it confirmed I have a memory problem. I am running Memtest86 on each of 4 sticks to see if it identifies which one is bad. Long process but has to be done. I already ordered 1 new stick anyway.

Thanks again!
 
Update. Memtest86 found more than 190 errors when I ran it with all 4 sticks installed. Unfortunately it doesn't say which of the 4 8GB sticks is bad definitively. I will start doing them two by two I guess.
 
When you find the bad stick be SURE to replace it with a new stick of exactly the same part number as the others. DO NOT mix different RAM types or models. If this were mine I'd resell the good sticks and buy a new pack of matched sticks to replace them all. Mismatched RAM can cause all sorts of problems.
 
Thanks for the advice. That is exactly what I am doing. Even testing the sticks individually I could not get repeating test results. Best to just replace them all at this point. Hopefully they will arrive today.
Appreciate all your help!
 
Just to close this out. 4 new sticks have been installed. Ran memtest again. No errors. Back in business.:-)
 

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