Games mini-freezing randomly

Mustaklaki

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I have a HD Radeon 7750 1GB
In nearly all of the games I play that are somewhat more demanding (That I have been playing for the past 9 months and were fine before) have been starting to become messed up.

When doing anything, games will just freeze around every 8 seconds for half a second at a time. Almost like a slight stutter.
I've had it in games before where the graphics card will somewhat crash, freezing the game for 10 seconds before coming back, but nothing like this.

It's not overheating, in game my card only gets to about 50-60 Celsius. The thing is, like I said, I've been playing these games for a long time and it's only happening now.

I've updated drivers and ruled out overheating. Last time, I just restarted my PC and it worked fine for that day. But it's getting worse, and was doing it today when I turned on my PC.

I also had it displaying on two monitors, my PC and my 32 inch LED TV. I disabled the monitor (Since I don't even use it) but the problem still persists.

Not too sure what to do.
 
It's difficult to say if it's a hardware issue or software issue.
The most obvious troubleshooting thing would be to SWAP with a different graphics card.

If it's a software issue that can be a big pain to troubleshoot. There may be some program causing issues. Unless you know how to disable most programs though, reinstalling Windows may be your only option.
 

Mustaklaki

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I found that it's not just games, it's pretty much everything. Even when I type, it will freeze around every 10 seconds while I type. The mouse also turns into the hourglass as if I am loading something, when I am not.

I think this is a steam issue, since it does not happen in other comment things, such as Facebook, YouTube, or even this website, but it happens while typing in Steam discussions.

 

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