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Ran the hardware test to no avail--ran for 8 hours and about 13 passes. I'd LOVE to do this, but the Apple Store claimed there was nothing wrong the last time I went in, since the issue is appearing Windows side only. It looks like the fixed some drivers Mac side and never bothered to fix...

Thanks for that! I think that this may be better able to reproduce the error than they were at the apple store, so I will run this tonight and let you know how it goes. As for the RAM, the 2010 is a unibody, so I can't exactly open it up and toss new RAM in. The computer is under warranty...

It appears that there is no information in the logs, other than the system recognizing an improper shut down after the crash.

Still can't quite figure out how to get logs to display... I ran a graphics card temperature monitor utility thingy and found that the whole rig ran pretty got (sitting between 80 and 85 C), but didn't spike at all while crashing.

I'm running Boot Camp at the moment. I've considering trying out some virtualization to see if I can reproduce the problem mac side, but I'm a bit unsure on that because I've had the impression that gaming doesn't work very well in a VM and Parallels is a bit pricey for just troubleshooting...

My MBP 2010 (15") has been having a strange issue that I can't seem to solve. First, the issue-- I believe it is related to the graphics card. It amounts to this--sometimes, mostly when gaming (though it has happened randomly otherwise) the display will go black, and the last 1/2 second of...