Games Keep Crashing

[VanConglo]

I have had this issue for a while, about more than a month ago I started experiencing random crashing problems starting with one game. I upgraded by CPU and motherboard at the beginning of this year (not to fix the crashing just because I needed an upgrade). I still kept crashing like usual, but for a week or two I started to crash after 20 mins then I would load it back up and not crash at all. This is when I did a fresh install of Windows 8.1, this helped it but didn't stop it from crashing randomly. Now I'm currently using Windows 10 Enterprise to see if that would solve the issue, only made it worse. I started talking to the games support about 3 weeks ago, they were not able to solve my problem. I started to run benchmarks and everything checked out okay, made sure everything was plugged in correctly on the inside, I have even had a friend help me with all of this. We are stuck and we don't know whats causing these problems, this is the same for other games I try to play as well.

[TetraSky]

-Which game are you playing and usually what happens when it crashes?

-Does it crash to Desktop or does the PC just reboot/bluescreen?

-Which anti virus do you have? Bitdefender is known to cause issues by preventing games from saving and games just crashing because of it. (need to add the .exe of the game to the exception lists)

- Have you tested your ram for more than 20 hours with Memtest ? Or ran a utility like Prime95/IntelBurnTest on Blend/All available ram selected ?

- Have you overclocked at all? Is the RAM running at it's factory speed? (Did you use XMP or manually set the timing?)

 

[VanConglo]

-The game I usually play is Planetside 2, when it crashes the screen gets distorted then freezes

-It switches between  the two

-I just use default

-No I have not and I am doing that right now

-I have not overclocked

[VanConglo]

4 hours ago, TetraSky said:

- Have you tested your ram for more than 20 hours with Memtest64 ? Or ran a utility like Prime95/IntelBurnTest on Blend/All available ram selected ?

It stopped working

[TetraSky]

5 minutes ago, VanConglo said:

It stopped working

I'm assuming the thing that stopped working is prime95/IBT ?
Redo it with Memtest, run the utility outside of windows, by creating a bootable USB drive of it and booting to it during POST (when you power ON the computer)

If that crashes too, you'll know it's either the RAM or the Motherboard's RAM slot. (testing each sticks individually would be a must to determine this)
Troubleshooting such a vague PC issue can be a lengthy process that can take a couple days, even more so if you don't really know what's what and how to do things. If it was bluescreening with a clear error it'd help, but you're saying it just freeze/crash? ...

As a side note, have you looked at the system's temperatures (CPU and GPU) while gaming or running tests? High temps do also cause reboots... though it doesn't usually crashes applications

[VanConglo]

29 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

I'm assuming the thing that stopped working is prime95/IBT ?

Yes

 

The CPU program crashed, the screen freezes for a few mins then crashes. Maybe it could be my CPU would need confirm on that if that is the case. I was testing the game again today there is a training area and I didn't crash there. Yet when I went on live with lots of other players it crashed, this game is really heavy on the CPU.

 

I have checked the temperatures and everything seems fine.

 

[VanConglo]

I am currently working on replacing my CPU, hopefully this will help my problem. I'll post an update saying "It worked", or "It didn't work".