All of a sudden Photoshop has been causing blue screens of death with varying "STOP"codes.
my system is brand new with new hardware, its a brand new build that i did about 6months ago. the pc doesnt blue screen at any other time, only with photoshop. i even tried a full format and reinstall of windows to no avail.
Ive ran diagnostics on all my hardware. ram, harddrives etc and all report good health. i can only assume that photoshop is the issue somehow.
That wasn't what anyone said - it was just mentioned in passing as a possible cause (hacker-modified code). Which isn't entirely unreasonable, given the extremely high volume of pirated copies being offered on the internet, to unsuspecting buyers.
But the general consensus is that this is most likely the GPU driver. If not that, then possibly an overheating/malfunctioning hardware component.
The bottom line is in any case that a modern application cannot cause a BSOD. That's prevented by sandboxes and insulating layers. What the application can do, is trigger a BSOD by making specific calls that expose latent problems.
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