Computer Freezes while gaming

In this post, I am going to help you figure out the reasons that could cause your computer to freeze and help you to fix the computer freeze problem. The reasons can be specified as following aspects.

Hardware & Software Related problem

When you are trying to figure out the problem why your computer freezes when you are playing games, the first thing that you should check is the game requirements. If the game requires at least 4 GB of RAM to run the game, while you have only 2 GB of RAM, certainly, you come across the annoying experience. Generally speaking, if your computer meets the minimum RAM requirements,

Besides the RAM, you should also check the processor, graphic card and software requirements. You should upgrade your computer to required standard to make sure that freezing doesn't occur again. If your computer’s processor isn’t strong enough to hold up game resources, the computer may freeze up.

What's more, the software and hardware incompatibility could also cause the problem of computer freezing. If your game is conflicting with your hardware, your computer also freezes when you are playing game, such as the sound card and the video card. Before you purchase a game, you should check carefully whether your computer is completely supporting the game.

Virus Problem

After consider the equipment issue, you should also check whether your computer is clean enough to play a game. As we all know that virus infection can keep processes running in the background that may cause a freeze during the game play. And the game file may get corrupted with the appearance of the virus infection on the computer. On the regard of virus infection which cause the computer freeze, you should take the latest updated anti-virus program to clean your computer for smooth game experience.

Poor Computer Performance

When you computer is full of corrupted registry entries or junk files, you may experience computer freeze all the same. It's necessary for you to clean and optimize your computer to better support the game playing. Manually handling of the registry entries or system files may cause potential problem on your computer, we highly encourage you take Cloud System Booster to optimize your computer for better game experience.

Process running in background

If you have too many programs running in the background when playing games, you are probably experiencing the problem of computer freezing because the process running in the background may eat up the working memory of the computer. We would like suggest you disable the process besides the ones that are absolutely necessary such as anti-virus program from running in the background.


Game Bugs

If you have checked all above mentioned possible reason, but you are still experiencing the same problem of computer freezing when playing games, the reason can be regarded as the game bugs. Due to such circumstance, we suggest you visit the game official site to check out whether there's anybody who experience the same problem as you. If yes, you have only to wait the game publisher to release software patch to correct the game bugs.

You should get coretemp, then play a game for 10 minutes and then see what your max temp was on your CPU. Do that and post how high your temp was. This is so we can rule out power problems.

It could be a video card issue or memory. It could also be your motherboard. It also depends how long these issues have been occurring. If this just started happening, and you didn't change out any hardware or install new software, than it's definitely a hardware issue.

Anyway, once you installed coretemp (google this), post results here and i have a look for you and give you some suggestions if it is a power problem.