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Certain games freeze up then unfreeze

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  • Video Games
  • Games
  • Skype
August 27, 2014 9:20:20 PM

When i play dayz standalone i randomly will freeze in game while frozen i can alt tab and i can still hear my music or Skype in the background. these freezes come randomly and the game will unfreeze after a couple of seconds. Another game that will occasionally freeze is CS:GO in this game it will usually only freeze when on the buy menu and the sound will loop in game but Skype sound will not loop i can also alt tab during these. The freezes in dayz are a lot more common than CS:GO. The last issue i notice is when playing dota 2 the games runs fine no freezes but if i try and watch a live stream or YouTube video on second monitor while playing the game seems to stutter a bit even while maintaining 60+ fps in game. While trying to investigate i went into event viewer and saw that i get these warnings The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Event ID 501
Reason : Graphics subsystem resources are over-utilized.
Diagnosis : A sharp degradation in Desktop Window Manager responsiveness was observed

Opcode: Video Memory Responsiveness

Event ID 500
The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention.
Scenario : The Desktop Window Manager responsiveness has degraded

Opcode: Video Memory Degradation

Motherboard- Asus P8Z77-V LK
CPU- i7 3770k 3.5ghz
Ram- 8gb corsair vengeance
PSU- corsair 650 watt
gfx card- gtx 560 ti 2gb

monitors
23.5 accer 60hz 19' sharp 1360x768 60hz

I've already tried not running Aero i have latest nvidia drivers

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