[MC-229294] 1.17 Blue screens my PC

Hello,

So basically, 1.17 will open perfectly fine no issues, but once I try to make a world or join a world, as soon as it hits 100% my entire PC blue screens with the error "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (afd.sys)" I have tried basic fixes to my drivers and have not seemed to work, most of the older 1.17 snapshots work fine (and of course older versions) and I can run them. But later snapshots, pre-releases and 1.17 itself just don't like PC.

I know hardly anything about PCs, so help would really be appreciated!

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MC-233249 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bluescreen while playing 1.17.1 Resolved

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BSOD Dump 7.20.txt

BSOD Dump 8.9.txt

Comments 16

violine1101 2021-06-16T20:19:02Z

What 1.17 snapshots work and which ones don't?

Also, what are your system specs?

Matt Pinnock 2021-06-17T14:04:25Z

Attached specs screenshot. Also, Snapshot 21w19a and later snapshots all crash

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Infiniteless 2021-06-19T16:55:29Z

Sorry wrote this as I was going to bed. What do you mean by crash like blue screen? because the client I'm using a.k.a. Lunar Client crashes on 1.8.9 do you mind being a bit more specific on how I should go about fixing this? Mine just says Latest release 1.17 :/

K Z 2021-07-18T19:20:48Z

The same BSOD (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - afd.sys) occurs for me from Snapshot 21w19a to the latest 1.17.1 release.

However, it occurs within 80 minutes of gameplay, in both single player and multiplayer games (instead of on world load as the OP had).

I've already checked/updated all my drivers and did a fresh install of both the game and the PC, but it still occurs.

My afd.sys has a version number of 10.0.1904.1801, according to the windows-provided driver verifier, but I doubt that's relevant considering how old snapshot 21w19a is.

Fannic64 2021-07-18T19:44:17Z

The reason why DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - afd.sys occurs is probably due to a processor buffer overflow, that occurs when Minecraft process hits 100%, I think when that overflow happens, it causes other processes (including cmd.exe) to be frozen. However, Windows threats this as a driver failure, causing a system crash. This overflow only occurs on processors that do not know how to handle this overflow. I don't know if I am right, since I don't have any crash debugger software at all. I think this means that if you are using that processor that has that overflow bug, you might trigger a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - afd.sys crash.

I think the workaround this is to add a processor usage cap (for example, if it is set to 80%, Minecraft won't be able to reach higher processor usage that this value).

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Fannic64 2021-07-18T19:54:22Z

This is a VERY CRITICAL bug, it must be fixed no matter if you want to fix it or not.

GamerPro08 2021-07-18T20:06:16Z

Your computer is very bad, at 100 kB RAM left, 15.9 GB RAM used.

Fannic64 2021-07-20T10:48:16Z

Any bug that causes the whole PC to crash are ALWAYS VERY CRITICAL.

Steve Hsu 2021-07-20T14:16:47Z

@Fannic64 if your comment above is correct, this seems like an operating system bug, not something that can be fixed from within Minecraft

K Z 2021-07-20T14:36:38Z

@Fannic64 Unfortunately, limiting the maximum processor usage to 80% (via Power options in Windows Settings) has no effect, and still promptly BSODs.

I've attached a BSOD dump - and it seems to be alluding that its paging an out-of-application memory address.

@GamerPro08 That doesn't seem to happen at all. It only peaks at 10/16 GB, but the BSOD doesn't occur because of that. It can still dip back down to 9 GB and then BSOD. And since it's Java, it will never over-allocate memory - by default it has a 2 GB limit, but I've also tested with a 6 GB limit.

Also, it looks irrelevant to world lag - it can handle over 1000 cow entities just fine.

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K Z 2021-07-20T15:48:49Z

@Steve_Hsu That's only partial true: this issue doesn't occur in Java 1.16.5, nor in Bedrock/Win10 edition, and thus some code in 1.17+ is incompatible with this PC or OP's PC. Of course, it doesn't affect a majority of its players, so it's unlikely to be easily diagnosed/solved.

Whether if its a driver issue, hardware issue, or software issue, this still only occurs with certain versions of Minecraft on certain PCs.

Yuta Yamamoto 2021-07-30T07:02:55Z

This should be a technical support issue, so the bug tracker may not be able to solve your problem. You can contact Community Support for assistance and refer to this ticket (e.g. "I have reported this issue on Mojira as MC-XYZ.").

A.Chu 2021-08-09T13:43:36Z

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@K_Z

I am pretty sure that we are facing the same problem, so I believe this issue is more likely caused by some code in Minecraft Java Edition, rather than some personal misconfiguration in runtime environment or hardware. A minidump BSOD file has been uploaded, which indicates the function of us both (afunix!AfUnixDeliverDataToClient+18d) has the same symbol name, and it seems like this function is called by javaw.exe in every Minecraft-related IRQL-level-too-high BSOD case.

In my case, the game crashes(with the OS) randomly, which means I cannot find any specific operation in the game that might cause the BSOD. The BSOD can occur in both single-player and multi-player. It happens in 1.17 and 1.17.1.

My PC is a Clevo NH55 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor ,a NVidia RTX 2070 GPU and 16GB RAM, running 64-bit Windows 10 pro. Drivers are the newest. This combination of hardware is powerful enough to avoid most PC performance issue. Since afd.sys seems to be a WinSocket driver file, I am curious about @K_Z 's network adaptor model. Mine is Realtek 8822CE.

I appreciate it if someone could figure out what's happening in the game and OS. OS debugging is not my profession, so please give me a tip if you know something about it.

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K Z 2021-08-09T16:23:44Z

@A.Chu My network adapter is RealTek RTL816. Nothing conclusive.

Another test case is when hosting a local 1.17.x server (its shares the game code, of course), a BSOD will eventually occur, with the same error as usual.

march/jp 2021-11-20T21:43:20Z

In my environment, it was solved by deleting the settings of the driver verification tool.