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Computer freezes and sometimes crashes when playing game(s)

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January 2, 2014 5:26:12 PM

I have had this problem for approximately a week. Whenever I start a LoL game, my screen starts to freeze every 5 seconds for about 20 seconds in total, and sometimes the game crashes, or even my whole computer. This has nothing to do with the game I am playing (servers fine, reinstalled/repaired...), so I think it's a hardware problem.

When the freeze happens (if it makes me crash completely), I can move my mouse for a few seconds before it stops responding, but I can still hear the sounds that my game would normally play. I can't alt-tab or do anything else than force shutdown by holding the power button manually.

All of the drivers for my graphics card are updated and it's a new graphics card, so the problem most likely doesn't lie there either.

I think it may have to do with my CPU struggling, because when it freezes but doesn't make me crash, I notice a spike in CPU usage in the task manager. It most definitely isn't my RAM, I have 16gb which is plenty.

One time (single occurrence out of 15+), when my game crashed (sometimes just the game crashes and not the whole PC, sometimes it doesn't even crash at all, just freezes a bit), I had a message at the bottom right of my screen saying "Application league of lege has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware".

That's about all of the information I can think about at the moment, here's a list of things I DID try to do before posting this:

- Restarting computer (lol)
- Taking graphics card our of computer and cleaning it
- Disabling windows firewall/defender
- Some other stuff that I can't think about

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Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 CPU @3.40GHz
OS: Windows 8
I also tried without antivirus, still same result
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If ANYONE has ANY idea of what my problem is, I would greatly appreciate the help!
Thanks in advance!

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January 2, 2014 5:27:09 PM

What are the full system specs?
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January 2, 2014 5:48:58 PM

tiny voices said:
What are the full system specs?




I presume you're asking for stuff like this, never done this before sorry :S
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