strange game freeze

[ebobde]

Right, im having a strange problem with my pc, when i play games its every now and then the game completely freezes, the audio in the game loops and then it unfreezes, note  its just the game audio that freezes raidcall conversations dont, ive also noticed on me second monitor and window that is open gets one of those 'this application not responding' borders and then it goes away, although im using a university supplied internet it has been sufficient and i dont think its that im running an GTX 970 (this was overclocked but i set it back to stock to see if it was that to no avail) an i5 4690k @4.4Ghz and 8gb or ram ive tested it on garrysmod and orcs must  die 2 (the games im trying to play with my Freind) 

temps are all fine as i monitor them quite a lot, theres nothing running in processes and cpu, gpu and ram usage is all normal

 

any suggestions?

 

Heres my temps and usages in garrys mod right after it happened (the readings in the middle it as it was happening)

[dragoon20005]

what program you were running when it hangs?

 

have you tired disable Flash Hardware Acceleration for web browsers?

[ebobde]

garrys mod and orcs must die 2 and no ill do that now but i dont see how it could relate as i dont have broswers open when im playing

[dragoon20005]

garrys mod and orcs must die 2 and no ill do that now but i dont see how it could relate as i dont have broswers open when im playing

ok have you tried MemTest?

[ebobde]

ill try that now thank you

[ApolloX75]

Right, im having a strange problem with my pc, when i play games its every now and then the game completely freezes, the audio in the game loops and then it unfreezes, note its just the game audio that freezes raidcall conversations dont, ive also noticed on me second monitor and window that is open gets one of those 'this application not responding' borders and then it goes away, although im using a university supplied internet it has been sufficient and i dont think its that im running an GTX 970 (this was overclocked but i set it back to stock to see if it was that to no avail) an i5 4690k @4.4Ghz and 8gb or ram ive tested it on garrysmod and orcs must die 2 (the games im trying to play with my Freind)

temps are all fine as i monitor them quite a lot, theres nothing running in processes and cpu, gpu and ram usage is all normal

any suggestions?

Saw this issue with a bad over clock a few times. Set your CPU back to stock settings and try it.

Sometimes 100% stable isn't 100% functional.

[ebobde]

Saw this issue with a bad over clock a few times. Set your CPU back to stock settings and try it.

Sometimes 100% stable isn't 100% functional.

Thats a very good point, ill try that once the mem check is done

[ebobde]

memtest passed completely, going to change clock now

[ebobde]

changed it to base clock speed and its still doing it

[ApolloX75]

changed it to base clock speed and its still doing it

I had the same problem with my QX9650. I'll try and recreate it tonight to jar my memory on the fix.

Unless someone else figures it out before I get home from work.

[DEDRICK]

Are you using On-board audio or a USB soundcard for a headset?  Either or, what is your sample rate set to eg. 16bit, 48000 Hz

 

It sounds like a sound buffer underrun issue...pun intended

[ebobde]

i think it was due to the fact that i have me games on one drive my programmes on another and my os on a third, i formatted and installed new os with apps on same drives and its smooth as anything now, definitely wasn't clock, memory or audio issues