All games crash within 15 minutes of playing

Rueduh · Jun 10, 2016

So I just built my computer 1 week ago and since then I have not been able to play a game for more than about 20 minutes. I recently took it apart and put back in the stock cooler and was able to play for a good 4 hours without crashing. The next day it went back to normal and I am still continuously crashing no matter how small the game is (i.e Heavy bullets). I tried downloading minecraft to see if it was just steam games that were crashing but nope, minecraft crashed too, along with League of Legends. I have tried so many things such as checking temp while playing, checking my CPU and disc usage which reach very high even about 100% when playing. It seems to crash a lot faster when I play games online so I'm thinking that it may have to do something with insufficient permissions? I'm not too sure.

Specs:
ASUS H81M-A motherboard
Intel Core i5 4430
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB ram DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Seagate 1TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB
EVGA 500 W1 80+, 500W Continuous Power

James Mason · Jun 10, 2016

Is it the game crashing or the entire computer crashing?

What OS do you have?

what does Event Viewer say about the crashes?
http://www.howtogeek.com/school/using-windows-admin-tools-like-a-pro/lesson3/

Rueduh · Jun 10, 2016

It is the game that crashes, not the computer
I have Windows 8.1 Pro

Rueduh · Jun 10, 2016

Event Viewer says:
Faulting application name: ShooterGame-Win32-Shipping.exe, version: 1.0.58175.0, time stamp: 0x5745a079
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0xd0010d60
Faulting process id: 0x778
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1c377c311c5cb
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dirty Bomb\Binaries\Win32\ShooterGame-Win32-Shipping.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 2c68bad3-2f6b-11e6-8273-d017c2ac5015
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

James Mason · Jun 10, 2016

Huh, so this:
Faulting module path: unknown
would normally tell you exactly what was wrong pretty much. But it says it doesn't know which is weird...

Did you download all your drivers?
https://www.asus.com/support/Download/1/45/5/1/jFB3K56VopR5yFB0/41/
If so, when you installed them, did you do them one at a time with a restart inbetween each one? or all at once and then... like didn't restart...
If so you may have to do a clean reinstall of windows (because you f'kd it) and then carefully install all your drivers one at a time with a restart in between.

But before that it may only be your video drivers that are broken so give the following a try:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Rueduh · Jun 10, 2016

Just uninstalled the drivers, so for the motherboard drivers should which specifically should I get? I'm not too sure if I'm downloading the right ones.

James Mason · Jun 10, 2016

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/Intel_Chipset_Win7-8-81-10_V101113.zip?_ga=1.138712628.687380981.1463542407
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/Realtek_Audio_Win7-8-81-10_V6017770.zip?_ga=1.138712628.687380981.1463542407
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/ASUS_APRP_Win7-8-81-10_VER10030_109.zip?_ga=1.201437846.687380981.1463542407
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/Realtek_LAN_Win7-8-81-10_V792115_838115_101505.zip?_ga=1.201437846.687380981.1463542407
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/sata/Intel_RAID_Win7-8-81-10_V14501081-13101058.zip?_ga=1.201437846.687380981.1463542407
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/H81M-A/H81M-A-ASUS-2203.zip?_ga=1.127054346.687380981.1463542407

Rueduh · Jun 10, 2016

also, for installing, all I do is extract it and just install the "AsusSetup" correct?

James Mason · Jun 10, 2016

Rueduh :

It would be the .exe or the .msi file yes.

Rueduh · Jun 11, 2016

Sorry for the late reply.
So they are all installed except for the .cap file, should I install through through the bios or what should I do with it?
Also, even if it does not say that it needs to restart should I still restart between each and every one?

Rueduh · Jun 11, 2016

Just installed the .cap file and still no luck. Damn.

James Mason · Jun 11, 2016

Rueduh :

Yes, even if it doesn't say to.

I dunno how you installed the .cap file though.

The thing is, I don't know if it will work unless you actually do a complete clean reinstall of Windows (formating your hdd) first, as whatever got broken won't necessarily be fixed by just installing the drivers.

Rueduh · Jun 11, 2016

Alright, I'll do the clean reinstall, and for the .cap file I just went into
BIOS> Adv Mode> Tools> Driver> .Cap File > Install

James Mason · Jun 11, 2016

Rueduh :

Ahh, that sounds right.

It usually easier to just reinstall windows and do everything right the first time around (again) than to spends so much time trying to find what's wrong (and probably unfixable).

If this DOESN'T fix it though, it's very possible your GPU is bad and needs to be returned to the merchant/manufacturer.

Rueduh · Jun 12, 2016

So I did the clean uninstall and restarted between each driver and still no luck. And for the GPU, I should have mentioned this but the GPU came in late and I already had the computer built but this problem was still going on. Also, for one of my games (Heroes and Generals) the crash log is always access denied so I'm wondering if maybe it is a permissions problem or something? I'm not sure.

James Mason · Jun 13, 2016

Rueduh :

So to recap, can you list off (in a list, not a run on sentence) everything you've done to fix it?

Rueduh · Jun 13, 2016

Change cooling system
Clean uninstall
Reinstalled all drivers
checked temp and disc/cpu usage to make sure it was none of those
changing voltage in BIOS
setting fans on turbo

James Mason · Jun 13, 2016

And you did a CLEAN reinstall of windows?

Rueduh · Jun 13, 2016

Yes, completely wiped the hardrive and reinstalled windows

James Mason · Jun 14, 2016

Rueduh :

Sounds like a hardware problem then, either motherboard, CPU or GPU (probably GPU).

But might as well try some stress tests to see if it's only the GPU that craps out when put under load:
http://blog.logicalincrements.com/2015/12/the-best-programs-for-stress-testing-your-pc/
You can also try this to benchmark/stress your HDD:
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

Rueduh · Jun 14, 2016

GPU SCORE:2346 points (39 FPS, 60000 ms)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 156.539 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 184.410 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.939 MB/s [ 229.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 0.948 MB/s [ 231.4 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 187.305 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 124.173 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.426 MB/s [ 104.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.888 MB/s [ 216.8 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [C: 5.5% (50.9/930.7 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2016/06/13 22:02:57
OS : Windows 8.1 Pro [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)

Rueduh · Jun 14, 2016

Okay so I had GPU-Z open while playing CS:GO and well right when it crashed to desktop there were many things that reached 100%. In the gyazo is the GPU load which reached 100% then crashed. https://gyazo.com/db23e0bd68f7a8fc09e8908d6993b061

Hyboria · Jun 14, 2016

Have you tried re-seating the GPU?

Rueduh · Jun 14, 2016

Hyboria :

No, this problem occurred even before I had my GPU, so that wouldn't really change anything.

Hyboria · Jun 14, 2016

Rueduh :

Ah I must have missed that bit of info. Just to check as well, you mentioned that the GPU came after you put the PC together - did you change your connection from the onboard display output to a connection on the GPU?

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