- Nov 28, 2016
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essentially, *most* games I play have been having an issue with freezing up after roughly 30 minutes of playing. the time it takes to lock up is about the same every time.
when it does freeze, the display itself freezes with the audio still running, though the game is unresponsive and will not close via task manager or anything else, forcing a restart every. single. time.
something to note, which is most strange to me, is this only seems to happen when my computer hasn't been running for very long. furthermore, a few games (overwatch, league of legends, WoW, and GTA V are the 4 specifics that come to mind) never freeze up and run flawlessly no matter when I launch them, and I can't find a pattern as the former 3 are on my SSD but GTA is on my HDD. if i take the time to play a game of league, or some overwatch, playing one of the games that usually freezes early on will make it run indefinitely with not so much as a hiccup.
another thing to note is i thought this may have to do with the games experiencing freezing being on my hdd instead of ssd due to the windows 10 anniversary update SSD/HDD debacle, though fallout 4 is on my ssd and experiences the same problem so i'm not so sure.
my specs are:
GPU: MSI GTX 1080
CPU: i7-6800k @ 3.4ghz (no OC'ing done atm)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32gb DDR4 2400
MOBO: MSI x99a gaming pro carbon
PSU: EVGA 1000w gold certified
SSD/HDD: Samsung 850 evo 500gb / WD black 3tb HDD
OS: Windows 10 pro-64
I have an old gtx 980 from my other build that I put in the case and tried running fallout 4 with and it still froze in the same way after about 30 minutes. I used this other build with the 980 for roughly a year and a half and never experienced this, so I'm rather certain my gpu isn't the issue.
it also shouldn't be a problem with temps. I'm able to alt tab when the games lock up to anything I have running in the background, and when checking HWMonitor the highest gpu temp I've reached during one of these freezes was 61 degrees, and my mobo and cpu both around 40 degrees.
I've run the windows hard drive checker and it says there aren't any issues with either my SSD or HDD, and I've also run memtest on my RAM with no errors. I'm at my wit's end and am starting to believe that the problem is windows 10 and its shitty anniversary update, but I'd really like some input before I try anything stupid.
update: I have used DDU to clear out my graphics drivers and completely reinstalled, updated my mobo drivers including BIOS (there was actually a compatibility update for Broadwell cpus, though I'd finally found the culprit...) and nothing has changed.
when it does freeze, the display itself freezes with the audio still running, though the game is unresponsive and will not close via task manager or anything else, forcing a restart every. single. time.
something to note, which is most strange to me, is this only seems to happen when my computer hasn't been running for very long. furthermore, a few games (overwatch, league of legends, WoW, and GTA V are the 4 specifics that come to mind) never freeze up and run flawlessly no matter when I launch them, and I can't find a pattern as the former 3 are on my SSD but GTA is on my HDD. if i take the time to play a game of league, or some overwatch, playing one of the games that usually freezes early on will make it run indefinitely with not so much as a hiccup.
another thing to note is i thought this may have to do with the games experiencing freezing being on my hdd instead of ssd due to the windows 10 anniversary update SSD/HDD debacle, though fallout 4 is on my ssd and experiences the same problem so i'm not so sure.
my specs are:
GPU: MSI GTX 1080
CPU: i7-6800k @ 3.4ghz (no OC'ing done atm)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32gb DDR4 2400
MOBO: MSI x99a gaming pro carbon
PSU: EVGA 1000w gold certified
SSD/HDD: Samsung 850 evo 500gb / WD black 3tb HDD
OS: Windows 10 pro-64
I have an old gtx 980 from my other build that I put in the case and tried running fallout 4 with and it still froze in the same way after about 30 minutes. I used this other build with the 980 for roughly a year and a half and never experienced this, so I'm rather certain my gpu isn't the issue.
it also shouldn't be a problem with temps. I'm able to alt tab when the games lock up to anything I have running in the background, and when checking HWMonitor the highest gpu temp I've reached during one of these freezes was 61 degrees, and my mobo and cpu both around 40 degrees.
I've run the windows hard drive checker and it says there aren't any issues with either my SSD or HDD, and I've also run memtest on my RAM with no errors. I'm at my wit's end and am starting to believe that the problem is windows 10 and its shitty anniversary update, but I'd really like some input before I try anything stupid.
update: I have used DDU to clear out my graphics drivers and completely reinstalled, updated my mobo drivers including BIOS (there was actually a compatibility update for Broadwell cpus, though I'd finally found the culprit...) and nothing has changed.
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