General System-Wide Instability

[whiteGloveReview]

For a little while now I've been having some general system instability, most programs such as chrome and even file explorer and task manager, games like overwatch, tf2, and most recently (and annoyingly) This War of Mine, have decided to hang (or freeze) for a few moments and if they feel that they don't want to keep going, will crash. Monitoring the system resources through task manager indicates that it's not a hardware bottleneck as nothing there has shown a spike in resources required to do a given task (meaning that during these freezes nothing suddenly demanded the systems resources) I've been trying to think of a reason for this, even going so far as to think there may be an issue at the hardware level (such as incompatible/unstable parts), but I'm leaning more to the side of a bad windows installation. Any thoughts of how to try to  Should I just try a fresh reinstall of windows to try and fix this (as a last resort preferably)

[Propphet]

I had the same problem on my high end system for a bit and spend over a week trying to fix it.

I discoverd that updating drivers / software for cpu and gpu works some times but the big game changer was an bios update

i didnt update my bios for 2 years and it started to outdate for my cpu.

if no luck you coud make an new partition on the harddrive, splitsing the storage in 2 virtual spaces witch gives you the option

of installing an new version of windows along with you`re old one. like this you coud try it on an new os before wiping everything.

[whiteGloveReview]

8 hours ago, Propphet said:

I had the same problem on my high end system for a bit and spend over a week trying to fix it.

I discoverd that updating drivers / software for cpu and gpu works some times but the big game changer was an bios update

i didnt update my bios for 2 years and it started to outdate for my cpu.

if no luck you coud make an new partition on the harddrive, splitsing the storage in 2 virtual spaces witch gives you the option

of installing an new version of windows along with you`re old one. like this you coud try it on an new os before wiping everything.

did a little poking around, my gpu is running the newest drivers and AMD doesn't release drivers for my CPU (fx-6100). I could try looking at other drivers for say the motherboard but i doubt they've released anything (their last BIOS release was back in 2013)

[Propphet]

14 hours ago, whiteGloveReview said:

did a little poking around, my gpu is running the newest drivers and AMD doesn't release drivers for my CPU (fx-6100). I could try looking at other drivers for say the motherboard but i doubt they've released anything (their last BIOS release was back in 2013)

Well than the last option is left, create 2 partitions and install an new version to try if that solves the problem