



All current updates available have been installed No logs appear in the Event Log with regard to DirectShow (or even DirectX) crashes or issues, and the DirectX.log (in the windows directory) does not specify any crashing either.

The applications only ever 'flicker' or crash. It is also important to note that my PC has not encountered a BSOD due to the DirectShow issues. On the hardware side of things, I have stress tested my RAM, GPUs, and CPU, I have performed HDD checks and scans to ensure that the issue is not caused by corrupt sectors, and I have scanned my memory to ensure that my memory is not corrupt. the VC++ redists, etc) but all is to no avail.Īfter reinstalling/resetting windows, however, the issue does go away, but after a few weeks it returns again. In my attempts to diagnose the issue, I have reinstalled Windows (from 3 different methods - a system point restore, a reset and a complete reimage using a bootable USB which had the installer on it), reinstalled all my graphics card drivers, ensured all my other drivers are up to date (including the PCI bus drivers), installed the latest redistributes from Microsoft (i.e. This issue with DirectShow is also affecting all applications on my PC, with windows frequently becoming not responding and then responding again - the process happens in less than a second creating a 'flashing' effect for the application, and is quite detrimental in games as the game then loses focus of the keyboard/mouse and I have to press the keys that I was holding down again. When running 'dxdiag', the application ALWAYS crashes when attempting to run the DirectShow test. One of which is the DirectX DirectShow component. After recently upgrading to Windows 10 (recently, as in a couple months back), I've encountered a few problems with Windows 10.
