Well so far my system hasn't crashed again. I'll stay on 8.00 for now and monitor my system's behavior. Maybe this was just a case of windows being windows and hopefully no more BSODs continue happening.
Yeah, maybe I was just paranoid. Just felt odd that the moment I rolled back to 7.72 the BSODs seemed to stop for good.
I'll keep the debug running for the next 24h too see if anything happens, otherwise I'll just assume whatever was going on got magically fixed.
Sorry to ask this, since as I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but is it usual for the dbg file to grow excessively? I updated to 8.00 once more and I've been running it on the debug+direct write mode for about 10 hours or so, trying to (hopefully not) trigger another BSOD, however the...
I had 3 BSODs related to ntoskrnl.exe and FLTMGR.SYS (1 with just ntoskrnl and 2 with both) at seemingly random points, 1 was under no load, just browsing on the internet and the other 2 were under moderate gaming loads, with the crashes taking something like 10-24 hours between each other...
Just wanted to add that disabling and enabling your GPU's driver through the device manager lets the hotspot value be reported again, avoiding having to restart your system.