Okay so this forum is the place where I get nearly 95% of all my PC fixes from so I'm really hoping I can get some help as to a severely unusual problem I'm having, if you guys could help me in any way I would be extremely grateful! I have checked several forums this one included about this issue but nothing seems to target the actual problem or as yet helped me figure it out, it also seems that in most of these cases the problem either wasn't solved or the fix that the particular user used to solve their issue, didn't help me.
So I have a rather new PC I built specs are as follows-
CPU- AMD FX 9590
GFX Card- Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 Ti
RAM- 16 GB DDR3
MOBO- Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
OS- Windows 7 64Bit
PSU- Cooler Master V1000 (1000W)
I am having an issue where when playing games my computer will inexplicably hard freeze. Sound, video, control, everything, just stops. I cannot Alt-Tab or Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Hard booting is the only recourse. The worst part is besides the hard freezing there seems to be no apparent reason for it and it is 100% random, I can go days without an issue, and other times I can go a mere 30 min.
To give some history I had this issue before on my PC, and it started around the time I started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I was always playing on Highest settings and my temps and processor took it all like a champ, getting good frame rates and having no issues but for no real reason whatsoever my computer would just hard freeze during play, it did not matter if the area was intensive or not. I thought it was just that particular game as other lower intensive games didn't seem to be affected. But then the same thing began happening with Wildstar, and again it seemed to creep into other lower intensive games my computer SHOULD have handled no problem and for all intensive purposes were running great with good frame rates and temps. It started progressing to even happening with the desktop and even while watching videos on Youtube. Again it could come with NO warning and seemingly out of nowhere. The computer would just... stop.
So after trying all sorts of fixes and to no avail I decided to completely reformat my HDD thinking it was some hidden corruption or something I really didn't know as all apparent hardware tests were coming up clean and all the software fixes or culprits I found on the net apparently didn't apply to my issue. After the reformat things seemed to be great, games weren't hard freezing and the desktop and videos certainly weren't having issue. So I thought I was in the clear... until the other day (It's been about a month since reformat). I recently installed and have been playing STALKER Lost Alpha and the CPU takes it great. But since playing it (It's been a full five days) Hard Froze the computer once. It's a buggy game, and the freezing that led to the hard freeze always happens in the same place and sometimes continues after several seconds so it honestly could be the game itself. However I also have restarted playing Dead Island via steam. This game has hard froze 3 times since install and its been only about 30 min to an hr between each hard freeze and again it comes completely out of the blue and for NO REASON it seems. (UPDATE: I just played it again for over an hour and no hard freeze at all.....)
The worst part about it is I cant seem to find anything that indicates there should be an issue. Games FPS is great, no chugging, temps stable, CPU usage normal and then for no reason boom, its hard frozen. Windows Event viewer only points out an error in the fact that the pc was shut down unexpectedly and nothing else shows up unusual. Antivirus has been disabled but still nothing there, I even tried disabling Aero. Still nothing.
If you guys could give me any help whatsoever I would greatly appreciate it. I really want this nightmare to end! Also if anyone could talk me through setting up some kind of crash report to catch these crashes so I can give you more information I would love to give you as much info as possible XD.
Thanks everyone!
So I have a rather new PC I built specs are as follows-
CPU- AMD FX 9590
GFX Card- Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 Ti
RAM- 16 GB DDR3
MOBO- Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
OS- Windows 7 64Bit
PSU- Cooler Master V1000 (1000W)
I am having an issue where when playing games my computer will inexplicably hard freeze. Sound, video, control, everything, just stops. I cannot Alt-Tab or Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Hard booting is the only recourse. The worst part is besides the hard freezing there seems to be no apparent reason for it and it is 100% random, I can go days without an issue, and other times I can go a mere 30 min.
To give some history I had this issue before on my PC, and it started around the time I started playing Elder Scrolls Online. I was always playing on Highest settings and my temps and processor took it all like a champ, getting good frame rates and having no issues but for no real reason whatsoever my computer would just hard freeze during play, it did not matter if the area was intensive or not. I thought it was just that particular game as other lower intensive games didn't seem to be affected. But then the same thing began happening with Wildstar, and again it seemed to creep into other lower intensive games my computer SHOULD have handled no problem and for all intensive purposes were running great with good frame rates and temps. It started progressing to even happening with the desktop and even while watching videos on Youtube. Again it could come with NO warning and seemingly out of nowhere. The computer would just... stop.
So after trying all sorts of fixes and to no avail I decided to completely reformat my HDD thinking it was some hidden corruption or something I really didn't know as all apparent hardware tests were coming up clean and all the software fixes or culprits I found on the net apparently didn't apply to my issue. After the reformat things seemed to be great, games weren't hard freezing and the desktop and videos certainly weren't having issue. So I thought I was in the clear... until the other day (It's been about a month since reformat). I recently installed and have been playing STALKER Lost Alpha and the CPU takes it great. But since playing it (It's been a full five days) Hard Froze the computer once. It's a buggy game, and the freezing that led to the hard freeze always happens in the same place and sometimes continues after several seconds so it honestly could be the game itself. However I also have restarted playing Dead Island via steam. This game has hard froze 3 times since install and its been only about 30 min to an hr between each hard freeze and again it comes completely out of the blue and for NO REASON it seems. (UPDATE: I just played it again for over an hour and no hard freeze at all.....)
The worst part about it is I cant seem to find anything that indicates there should be an issue. Games FPS is great, no chugging, temps stable, CPU usage normal and then for no reason boom, its hard frozen. Windows Event viewer only points out an error in the fact that the pc was shut down unexpectedly and nothing else shows up unusual. Antivirus has been disabled but still nothing there, I even tried disabling Aero. Still nothing.
If you guys could give me any help whatsoever I would greatly appreciate it. I really want this nightmare to end! Also if anyone could talk me through setting up some kind of crash report to catch these crashes so I can give you more information I would love to give you as much info as possible XD.
Thanks everyone!
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