Freezing

Explosivebicycle · April 21, 2017

For some reason, when ever I attempt to play games my pc freezes to black screen and requires a hard reset to be able to use again. It does not happen on smaller games like crypt of the necrodancer or enter the gungeon, but it does on harder games such as squad and csgo. I have recently reformatted my pc, of which can play most games on the marked with ease. I have noticed when i try to play some games, steam starts first time installation and then says "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable" when it gets to microsoft visuals c++ 2015, though this has only been with squad. I've tried fixing this by re-installing it, but the same things happen.

System specs:

Bitfenix NOVA case

Gigabyte 990X gaming motherboard.

AMD 8350 black edition (No over clocking, water cooled with Corsair H60 single fan.)

MSI R9 380 (Factory clock, no tweaking)

Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHZ 4GB DDR 3 x2

HyperX fury 1600MHZ 8GB DDR3 x1

kingstone 240GB ssd

Seagate barracuda 1T

Tp link pci-e internet card

Aerocool VP pro 850 Watts

Explosivebicycle · April 21, 2017

23 minutes ago, RandomGuy13 said:

Reinstall crimson drivers and see if that fixes it. If not then open control panel, go to administrative tools and then run Windows Memory Diagnostics to see if it's a memory problem, If not then get back to me.

I've reinstalled my crimson drivers and im still getting the same problem. Windows Memory Diagnostics says everything is fine.

Xsilent(X) · April 22, 2017

On 21/4/2017 at 11:22 PM, Explosivebicycle said:

I've reinstalled my crimson drivers and im still getting the same problem. Windows Memory Diagnostics says everything is fine.

Try a GPU benchmark! and look if you get those freezes in the Stress test to!

Explosivebicycle · April 27, 2017

On 2017-4-24 at 2:29 PM, RandomGuy13 said:

Reinstall C++ 2015 useing the download in this link https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Also download a program to monitor your gpu temperatures to see if it's a heat problem. I recommend afterburner https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner but you can use whatever.

Run a game, preferably one that is quite difficult to run, whatever you have got just something that's a little more demanding than CSGO. Squad with the settings cranked to the highest should be good or you can use a GPU benchmark like Unigine Heaven or MSI Kombustor.

If you see any program not responding, Bluescreens, freezing or visual artifacting then you have a problem. Also make sure that your card isn't running too hot.

Also take out your hyper x ram, it could be an issue with running memory that's not all the same capacity.

On 2017-4-22 at 10:27 PM, Xsilent(X) said:

Try a GPU benchmark! and look if you get those freezes in the Stress test to!

I've tried both of these and it has changed nothing. I used msi afterburner to crank up my GPU fan speed to 80% and it stayed around 45 degrees (Celsius) while playing squad at full settings, yet it still freezes. I took out the hyper x stick and a vengeance stick (so I had 2 sticks of ram, 8gb in total ) and tried again and still freezes. I used MSI kombustor to run a stress test and it didn't even last a second before crashing. I've also tried reinstalling C++ several times. Still no difference.

Explosivebicycle · May 13, 2017

On 2017-5-11 at 8:11 PM, RandomGuy13 said:

Have you tried reinstalling windows and therefore all the programs and drivers, it could be a problem with the OS. Secondly, if you have access to any other hardware that you can use to diagnose hardware problems that would be useful, if you could borrow a stick of ram, or a cpu from a friend, harddrive, a graphics card, or even a power supply. All of theses things could help in finding exactly what is wrong with it.

No. I've fixed this myself. it was the graphics card. It had broken. I found this out after it game me green screens. I've already replaced it and the pc works fine now.