Freeze/lockup while gaming

orchiley

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Oct 9, 2017
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For some reason whenever I play PUBG, my game freezes/locksup and takes me back to my desktop, only to show me my audio settings in ROG SupremeFX. Upon the freeze, if I am in comms such as Discord, then I am no longer able to hear my friends but they can hear me. To fix the issue I have to unplug my headphone jack then plug it back in and confirm it in ROG SupremeFX to be able to hear my friends on Discord. Then I am able to Alt Tab back into the game where it will just freeze/lockup again and the whole situation repeats.

Notes:

- I thought it was possibly the motherboard since my headphone jack is plugged into it, however I see no reason this would be the case.

- Recently I have been mining Zcash (crypto) using EWBFs miner, using my ASUS ROG STRIX 1080 TI. I have only been mining for just over a month, only part-time like overnight or for a few hours during the day and sometimes I don't mine for days because I just forget to. My GPU temps at below 52 degrees so it shouldn't cause any problems

- This only happens to PUBG, since this is the only game I play at 99% GPU usage

- I have no troubles using my PC whilst browsing and watching YouTube videos. This ONLY happens when my GPU stays around 99% for anywhere between a minute and halfway through a game of PUBG.

- This whole issue happened to me yesterday and the day before, however I restarted my PC and it seemed to have fixed it temporarily, or I just got lucky not to freeze.

- All my parts are less than 7 months old, except for the PSU which I got second hand from a friend. The PSU has done me good and I've never had any issues with it so I doubt there is a problem with it. Although I could be wrong.

- I have updated all my GPU drivers, sound drivers and I have even ran multiple troubleshooters for my hardware etc. Whilst troubleshooting for hardware issues I was prompted to restart my PC, so I did, thinking it may have found the culprit but it did not since the issue occured in the frickin PUBG lobby (a first).


PC Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16gb (2x8gb) DDR4 3000MHz

MOBO: ASUS ROG Strix Z270E

GPU: ASUS ROG Strix 1080 Ti

PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 Gold 750w


Help is much appreciated, thanks.


 

orchiley

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Oct 9, 2017
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Nope, I use "GPU Tweak II" to switch between Silent mode and Gaming mode. But I haven't felt the need to use OC mode. I've used OC mode in the past just to feel the difference and it has never crashed. It's always been very stable and smooth.