Media Encoder crashes PC with certain Premiere Pro 3D Effect settings

I used a different hardware monitor (iCue instead of NVidia) and found that it does look like a heat problem. The iCue monitor shows 3 separate NVidia tempuratures and one of the three was exceeding 100c, at which point the crash would happen. The reason it did not crash when I broke up the rendering into segments is that the GPU would cool down a bit at the start of each rendering segment, thus helping to keep the temperature lower. 

I am still trying to figure out what is causing the heat issue. So, my appologies.  Not sure if it is a hardware of driver issue.

But, I have a question. I thought I turned off hardware acceleration in Premiere Pro and Media Encoder. Preferences/Media: H264/HEVC harware accelerated decoding & encoding are both unchecked and I did a restart.  But, the GPU still seems to be used during rendering and the temperature goes up as it did when I had hardware acceleration checked on.  What setting for turning off the GPU am I missing?

GeForce temp was 72c and fan operating just prior to crash.  72c is within expectations when running a job like this.

I've also run consecutive rendering jobs where I take a problem video and segment it into smaller render jobs.  I batch the jobs in the Media Encoder and they run one after the other.  This is somewhat similar to rendering the video as if it were one video.  The rendering job works OK.  So, if it were a heat problem, it would have shown up when doing the batch of rendering jobs too.

It is not a heat problem 

More clues.

Rendered a video about 8 minutes long, this time with no 3D features used (just some scaling and positioning).  Towards the end of the rendering, I got a Blue Screen of Death.  After reboot I ran the render job again.  It rendered OK.  I then made a small edit change, adding a slide transition.  This time it crashed the way it has been crashing before, with the screen going blank and fan going to full speed..  After reboot, I ran the same job again and this time it rendered OK.  This apparently random behaviour is a mystery.

I've put System Compatibility Report files and an updated Test Project 2 on the site I told you about before.  Same username/password.

System Compatibility shows no issues.

I moved the Adobe/Adobe Media Encoder/24.0 folder into a temp folder - still crashed.

I removed the one plugin that I had (NewBlueFX stabilizer plugin) - still crashed.

Test Project 2 removes the offline files.

Media Encoder still seems to crash at about the mid point.

Exactly. But there are a lot of media referenced in the project file that are missing. I just offlined them all.

A few more ideas:

• Did you try System Compatibility Report?
• Did you try to delete/move Did you try to delete/move your User/Documents/Adobe/Adobe Media Encoder/24.0 folder?
• Do you have any third party plugins installed?

Two more clues.

If I've turned on several 3D and Transform (Skew) features, it seems to stress things more.  I have to segment the rendering into as small as 30 second videos, which I then concat together to form the complete video with another render.  This further's my theory that there is stack overflow (or maybe a memory leak) somewhere.

Also, I tried rendering the video using just Premiere Pro (not Media Encoder) and the rendering job still fails.

While my workaround of segmenting videos into multiple short video rendering jobs works, it is getting to be very tedious.

I am a bit confused.  The project I sent you was called "Test Project".  There were only 4 media files in it (all video, including IMG_2730, IMG_2731).

I tried rendering with hardware accelerated decoding On and Off. It failed both ways.

I tried rendering with Import sequences natively On and Off.  It failed both ways, and if anything, failed a little earlier with the setting to Off.