Recent freezing screen problem in games

tinpanalley · September 28, 2019

I'm not sure if this is purely GPU based, so I'm leaving it in General discussion. But perhaps someone can help. I have a Radeon R9 290.
It seems as though recently, and only with certain games that aren't even my heaviest graphics games, when scrolling through menus, or when a game goes from one menu to the next, the screen will freeze in transition. Often it requires a CTRL-ESC and back into the game to unfreeze. Gameplay is fine, but the moment I pause to go to the menu, flipping pages or even in and out from submenus causes this visual freeze again. Audio is still heard. I use my GPU for video editing rendering, for even more graphically intense games than the ones causing problems without any issues. For the time being, it appears EA Sports games menus are problematic. Any ideas what this could be, if it's GPU related or otherwise, and what I might try to fix it?
Thanks!

MadAnt250 · September 29, 2019

How full is your hard drive? Also, what is your cpu and gpu usage?Check if there is any programs running in the background.

tinpanalley · September 29, 2019

19 hours ago, MadAnt250 said:

How full is your hard drive? Also, what is your cpu and gpu usage?Check if there is any programs running in the background.

Thanks for the reply.

Well, HDD is pretty full actually. Less then 100GB left. Would that be an issue? That hadn't occurred to me.

My CPU usage and GPU usage I don't exactly know but the bottom line is that this was NOT an issue a few weeks ago. I always ensure there are no major memory hogs running in the background.

MadAnt250 · October 1, 2019

On 9/29/2019 at 6:30 PM, tinpanalley said:

Thanks for the reply.

Well, HDD is pretty full actually. Less then 100GB left. Would that be an issue? That hadn't occurred to me.

My CPU usage and GPU usage I don't exactly know but the bottom line is that this was NOT an issue a few weeks ago. I always ensure there are no major memory hogs running in the background.

It can be sometimes, free up some space and see what happens. Windows 10 requires 20GB of disk space to work properly.

I had to make my paging file larger just so some games can load in game better.

tinpanalley · October 1, 2019

Hmm, I've got 125GB free, that can't be it.

I put the game on my firewall so that Origin couldn't interfere with the gameplay and it seems to have made everything smoother. I only play offline so it's not a problem. We'll see if this lasts.