System crashes only when playing certain games

CurtMcGurt

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MY PC crashes when I play Battlefield 3 and FarCry 3. But I can play League of LEgends and stream video content all day long. But 10 minutes of onlien multiplayer in Battlefield and my game will crash. It was originally happened more frequently and also when stream or playing video. I diagnosed one of my RAM sticks to be DOA. I have new 16gb RipJaw and it runs perfectly, except when playing Battlefield and FarCry. Anyone know why it would only crash when playing these games as opposed to League? Or what the cause may be>/?

Thanks for your help.
 
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Hello CurtMcGurt,

I assume you have (8GBx2) or (4GBx4) sticks, either way, you have more than 1 stick installed.

Did you ever test one stick at a time?

I dont think you need 16GB to ensure to play those games because I played those games with 4GB and a low performance CPU.

Which brings me to my next question.

What is your CPU, more specs are needed to ensure a more accurate response.

Still not knowing your CPU, does it spike or or hit near 100% in the processes tab in taskmgr.exe?

You never mentioned the error code, assuming its the APPCRASH error.

Lastly, have you tried reinstalling the problematic applications? Try doing that as well if necessary. That usually fixes the issue, believe it or not.

Sorry for the thousand...

Thyrax

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Hello CurtMcGurt,

I assume you have (8GBx2) or (4GBx4) sticks, either way, you have more than 1 stick installed.

Did you ever test one stick at a time?

I dont think you need 16GB to ensure to play those games because I played those games with 4GB and a low performance CPU.

Which brings me to my next question.

What is your CPU, more specs are needed to ensure a more accurate response.

Still not knowing your CPU, does it spike or or hit near 100% in the processes tab in taskmgr.exe?

You never mentioned the error code, assuming its the APPCRASH error.

Lastly, have you tried reinstalling the problematic applications? Try doing that as well if necessary. That usually fixes the issue, believe it or not.

Sorry for the thousand questions, but this gives you a couple of options to go by to solve your problem faster.

Hope this helps! Good luck
 
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CurtMcGurt

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I appreciate all of the responses, and I will get back to you today with all of my specs.

A few things I can answer off the top of my head.
Originally I had a 4gbx2 RAM set up and ran multiple tests running each stick at a time and in the different entry slots of the mother board (the specs of the motherboard I don't know off the top of my head, I'll have to double check)
I found one stick to be causing nearly all of the crashes. And was perfectly happy running on just one stick at 4gb for a while. I recently bought a second monitor and have been doing simple multitasking (LoL, Netflix, Chrome) and this was finally starting to try on my mere 4gb. I hadn't ran my PC with both RAM sticks a long while, and decided to throw the stick I originally deemed DOA back in and see if I could run smoother with 8gb, to which my PC almost immediately crashed after not crashing for nearly 6 months. I even ran into some crashing problems again after removing the DOA stick. I wanted to upgrade my RAM, and opted for a 16gb upgrade.
Recently I purchased Battlefield, and as you mentioned, was seeing massive spikes in my CPU usage around 100%. And caused my CPU's overall performance to plummit out of no where. I did some minor trouble shooting, defragmenting etc., and did not see much improvement.
I don't particularly know why, but the 100% CPU usage problem has stopped happening, it sits comfortably below 20% most of the time now. However Battlefield still crashes my PC anywhere between 5 - 30 mins of play.