One of the reason, GTT may crash while starting streaming could be the Performance Counters are not properly initialized or they are corrupted. This could be solved by rebuilding the performance counters.
To rebuild all Performance counters including extensible and third-party counters, type the following commands at an Administrative command prompt. Press ENTER after each command.
Rebuilding the counters:
cd c:windowssystem32
lodctr /R
cd c:windowssysWOW64
lodctr /R
Resyncing the counters with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI):
WINMGMT.EXE /RESYNCPERF