What the hell is wrong with my computer?

[c_marriott]

For the last week I've had none stop issues. To start my games started saying that they were using too much memory and needed closing (I think that it was VRAM not normal memory) so I updated my GPU drivers, it fixed the issue, until I restarted my computer when I tried to play again the next day and it happened again, uninstalled the drivers again, reinstalled them (clean both times) and it worked, until I restarted again, this time the warning came up and both screens went blank. I restarted it again today and on start up I opened Chrome and it took a good 10 minutes for it to actually load and sort itself out, and here I am now. During that period my CPU was mostly at 100% (wasn't thermal throttling).

 

Is there something using up all of my computer resources? I literally have no idea. I've done an entire system scan for both malware and virus's but nothing.

 

Please help!

 

Reference to previous thread: 

 

Chrome has just crashed and when trying to update this it froze for about a minute. 

 

[PlayStation 2]

Are you using Windows 10?

[c_marriott]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Are you using Windows 10?

Yeah, had it since release, had no issues until now

[c_marriott]

Is there anyway to find out whats using all of my graphics cards memory?

[SamTheWelshDragon]

Try running a stress test for a couple seconds, something like Prime95; if you crash instantly it may be your RAM being unstable. I had a very similar issue with an old kit from Corsair.

[c_marriott]

2 minutes ago, SamTheWelshDragon said:

Try running a stress test for a couple seconds, something like Prime95; if you crash instantly it may be your RAM being unstable. I had a very similar issue with an old kit from Corsair.

Running while typing this, no crashes or anything

[SamTheWelshDragon]

Just now, c_marriott said:

Running while typing this, no crashes or anything

Clean install your drivers with a tool, if it doesn't help then go hit up your GPU manufacturer; it'd probably be hardware related if that's the case.

[c_marriott]

Just now, SamTheWelshDragon said:

Clean install your drivers with a tool, if it doesn't help then go hit up your GPU manufacturer; it'd probably be hardware related if that's the case.

I did with my graphics drivers, which as I said seemed to fix it until I restarted my computer. Not sure what could be causing it though. Is there any software to see what is using my VRAM up?

[SamTheWelshDragon]

3 minutes ago, c_marriott said:

I did with my graphics drivers, which as I said seemed to fix it until I restarted my computer. Not sure what could be causing it though. Is there any software to see what is using my VRAM up?

GPU-Z lets you check GPU utilization. If you're using an SSD then check it's S.M.A.R.T health; it may be corrupting on power down.

[c_marriott]

5 minutes ago, SamTheWelshDragon said:

GPU-Z lets you check GPU utilization. If you're using an SSD then check it's S.M.A.R.T health; it may be corrupting on power down.

SSD health is fine but my GPU, I'm looking at the driver version using GPU-Z and its saying the version is 15.301.1801.1001 beta (Catalyst 15.8) Yet I installed the most recent hotfix 16.1 with Crimson. What is going on there?

[SamTheWelshDragon]

2 minutes ago, c_marriott said:

SSD health is fine but my GPU, I'm looking at the driver version using GPU-Z and its saying the version is 15.301.1801.1001 beta (Catalyst 15.8) Yet I installed the most recent hotfix 16.1 with Crimson. What is going on there?

After a quick Google it seems to be a common issue for that driver version; go grab a non-beta driver.

[c_marriott]

3 minutes ago, SamTheWelshDragon said:

After a quick Google it seems to be a common issue for that driver version; go grab a non-beta driver.

I didn't chose a beta driver though, no idea why its installed, any ideas as to why it would say I have that yet I have uninstalled and reinstalled the most recent drivers twice?

[SamTheWelshDragon]

Just now, c_marriott said:

I didn't chose a beta driver though, no idea why its installed, any ideas as to why it would say I have that yet I have uninstalled and reinstalled the most recent drivers twice?

Update your Crimson and your driver, ensure both are non-beta.

[c_marriott]

10 minutes ago, SamTheWelshDragon said:

Update your Crimson and your driver, ensure both are non-beta.

I just completely uninstalled all of my graphics drivers, installed this: 

 

And yet its still coming up as a beta driver. What the hell is going on, why do I keep getting the broken beta drivers?