Lag/Freeze spikes after one night

TricKzG

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Feb 12, 2015
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Hello,

I have a low budget gaming pc that I have since at least 4 years. Last night, I installed two cracked games (The Walking Dead and Sniper Elite 3) that I hadn't played till this morning and I noticed that The Walking Dead freezed for about 1 second every minutes or so. This isn't normal since my pc runs it at 60 fps. Then I started playing War Thunder and I noticed that I had the same problem. I play this game since 2015 and I didn't have any problem since today.

Also, I use torrents from Skidrow or/and Reloaded and I never got any problems with those cracked games.

This is what I tried to fix the freezes (None of those methods worked):
- Cleaning my PC from any viruses. I had 42 and I removed them with AWDCleaner, wich I use since 2016.
- Installing all the last drivers.
- Searching on the internet.

This is my setup

i3 4330 3.5GHz
Gigabyte H81M-DS2
8GB of Kingston DDR3 RAM
Asus GTX 650 2b
500W power supply of a brand I don't know.

Thanks

Anthony





 
Solution
" I had 42 and I removed them with AWDCleaner, wich I use since 2016."

Very likely you still have other viruses as well, try to boot your pc with Avast Live CD so it can clean even those that get protected by your OS.