video games suddenly crashing

andrew66655321

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Ive had my current set up for about 2 years or more now. it used to work great but whenever I play the majority of new games that I buy, the game runs perfectly for about 10 minutes then freezes goes black then works again, after the first time it just starts happening more and more frequently. the wierd thing is several games work perfectly some dont. cleaned and reinstalled drivers, updated all the microsoft updates and everything, just dont have an idea of what to do next. games that crash are farcry 3, payday 2, prototype 2, natural selection 2. other games tend to run fine including bioshock inf.
current set up.
amd phenom 955 (hope to go intel soonish!)
high end gigabyte motherboard from 2 years ago, i think its the ud5p or something
8 gigs memory
6970 OC edition 2
dual 1920x1200 monitors

any advice would be amazing!!!
 
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It doesn't make as much sense. It could be that the RAM on the card is what is overheating an causing the error, and that some of the intense games while they stress the GPU they don't stress the vRAM as much. Or some other part of the GPU is not being stressed quite as much to cause it to overheat.
Honestly it sounds like an overheating issue to me. Some games are taxing the card more, and some aren't as much but its the only thing that makes sense. Overheating explains the crashing becoming more and more frequent because the overheating will slowly damage your card until it doesn't work and so it would make your card crash slowly more. I would suggest you take it out and clean it extremely well, and maybe put some really good thermal paste on your graphics card instead of the stock stuff. Maybe add an extra system fan depending. I think its your best chance of getting it fixed.
 
It doesn't make as much sense. It could be that the RAM on the card is what is overheating an causing the error, and that some of the intense games while they stress the GPU they don't stress the vRAM as much. Or some other part of the GPU is not being stressed quite as much to cause it to overheat.
 
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