GPU troubles...maybe?

[Stickbug]

I've been having trouble for a while now (past 2 years, since I built my PC) with my computer's inability to run games. Sometimes. It always just depends on the day, but overall its been a rough time using it. It crashes video wise, and consistently on every game I play on except for Minecraft. And even with Minecraft, disabling and re-enabling shaders will cause it to crash. I am not entirely sure what to do. I've uninstalled and reinstalled drivers, rebooted my computer, updated drivers, rolled-back drivers, changed Direct-X versions on games. The one thing that I haven't wanted to do is do a fresh install of Windows, mainly because i live in a rural area and i have lots of games installed that take up probably 50-75% of my hard drive space, and would require to re-download copious amounts of data to get the files back. I currently have a low end PC, specs are as follows:

 

AMD Ryzen 3 2200g

Gigabyte GTX 1050 2g

16gb Corsair Vengeance ram

ASUS A320 mobo

 

I have also tried using compatibility mode, which also doesn't do anything. The crashes also depend on the day. Some days I can play CS:GO with no troubles, high frame rates, and play for hours. Other times, within seconds of entering a match, the screen just freezes. The game is still running, audio playback still exists, but the screen is frozen on that one frame. The rest of my PC is completely fine whenever this happens. The crashes continue with games like GTA V, Valorant, Borderlands 2, Fortnite, and used to happen with Spellbreak before i uninstalled it (because of the crashes). THESE crashes however, just completely break the game and I would need to open Task Manager to end them and then restart them. And, of course, sometimes after restarting they would still crash, and I'd have to repeat the process again until the various games decided not to.

 

Note: Reinstalling Windows 10 will be my absolute last resort. If there is ANYTHING else that I can still try, no matter how tedious, I am more willing to do that then do a fresh install.

[basically me]

Is your system overclocked?

[Heliian]

Can you try another GPU?

[Stickbug]

4 minutes ago, basically me said:

Is your system overclocked?

No. I havent touched anything on it. My CPU doesnt support it anyway because of the Mobo, and i've never tried it with my GPU

[Stickbug]

Just now, Heliian said:

Can you try another GPU?

No, the only one i have is this one, and no one else in my house has a computer that has one.

[basically me]

1 minute ago, Geruiem said:

No. I havent touched anything on it. My CPU doesnt support it anyway because of the Mobo, and i've never tried it with my GPU

Alright idk then, maybe try if the the onboard graphics of your APU will also crash when put under load

What PSU do you have?

[Stickbug]

2 minutes ago, basically me said:

Alright idk then, maybe try if the the onboard graphics of your APU will also crash when put under load

What PSU do you have?

I will try that, although my onboard graphics only have HDMI and i use bad monitors w/o it. I currently have an EVGA 500 watt bronze unit, so it shouldn't be a PSU problem