{"id":15218,"date":"2020-08-02T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=15218"},"modified":"2020-08-01T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T07:19:20","slug":"windows-10-desktop-windows-manager-crashes-due-to-directx-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/08\/02\/windows-10-desktop-windows-manager-crashes-due-to-directx-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: Desktop Windows Manager crashes due to DirectX bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/01\/windows-10-desktop-windows-manager-strzt-wegen-directx-fehler-ab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]The known bugs in Windows 10 somehow don't comes to an end. Currently Microsoft has to deal with the problem that the Windows Manager crashes because of a DirectX error.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The Desktop Windows Manager (DWM)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg05.met.vgwort.de\/na\/35e4e0ca96ef4968bffeb233e98770a0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/win32\/dwm\/dwm-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Desktop Window Manager<\/a> (DWM) was introduced with Windows Vista. The Windows Desktop Composition Service forces applications to draw pixels in video memory instead of the primary display device. It then renders a desktop image, which is then displayed on the screen, possibly after applying visual effects and animations.<\/p>\n<h2>Desktop Windows Manager (DWM) crashes<\/h2>\n<p>However, some users know the effect that the Desktop Windows Manager (DWM) crashes. You can also kill the DWM in Task Manager &#8211; then all visual effects on the desktop are lost. Some users, however, experience the effect that the DWM continuously crashes in Windows 10, as Microsoft explains in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/de-de\/help\/4502866\/dwm-exe-stops-responding-when-you-repeatedly-close-and-open-lid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this support article<\/a> from June 24, 2020. In the article titled <em>DWM.exe process stops responding when you repeatedly close and open the lid in Windows 10<\/em>, Microsoft states when the crashes can occur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 1<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You plug a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) monitor into a laptop computer that is running Windows 10.\n<li>The monitor is configured to operate at 4K resolution.\n<li>You repeatedly play a 4K H264 video in <strong>Movies &amp; TV<\/strong> on the computer.\n<li>In Control Panel, you open the <strong>Advanced settings<\/strong> screen of the <strong>Power Options<\/strong> item, and then you set <strong>Lid close action<\/strong> as <strong>Do nothing<\/strong>.\n<li>While the 4K video is playing back, you repeatedly close and open the computer lid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Scenario 2<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You connect two 4K monitors to a Thunderbolt 3 docking station.\n<li>You connect a laptop that has a 4K solution monitor to the docking station, and then you configure a triple 4K display configuration in either \"clone\" or \"extend\" mode.\n<li>You repeatedly undock and redock the laptop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are 'exotic' conditions, but then DWM crashes. This problem occurs with all Windows 10 versions. The cause is a problem in the Microsoft DirectX Video Memory Management (Dxgmms2.sys) component, which is not a hardware problem. Microsoft is working on a fix for this bug. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/windows-10-desktop-windows-manager-crashes-due-to-directx-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]The known bugs in Windows 10 somehow don't comes to an end. Currently Microsoft has to deal with the problem that the Windows Manager crashes because of a DirectX error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,2],"tags":[47,76],"class_list":["post-15218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-windows","tag-issue","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}