Specific games crashing

[Berserkr]

I have a very annoying problem. Ever since I upgraded to Ryzen a few months ago,I've had problems with specific games crashing. The weird thing is, the problem seems to be getting progressively worse. It started out with GTA 5. It would be playable for about 30 seconds, then would freeze. Instead of getting into annoying troubleshooting I just decided "oh well, I guess I'm not playing this" and moved on. Now comes Fallout 4. For a long long time it ran completely fine. But come a few weeks ago, it does the same thing as GTA, except this time it simply closes instead of freezing. Then, I buy DOOM, play it for half an hour, it hard-crashes. I try Kingdom Come Deliverance, same thing. The part that's weird is, non steam games like Assassins Creed 3, The Crew, and Battlefield 1 all work fine.

 

Believe me, I have tried almost everything. I've updated every driver for every component, flashed my bios, underclocked my ram, uninstalled steam along with every steam game and reinstalled, updated redistributables, everything short of just buying a new computer.

 

My specs are as follows:

Ryzen 5 1600, stock

MSI B350 Tomahawk

Avexir 8gb DDR4 2400mhz

Powercolor R9 380

And a 750 watt Coolermaster psu

 

Anything helps.

[Shyam Ganapathy]

Are you running the steam games and the other games on different drives?

 

[Berserkr]

Just now, Shyam Ganapathy said:

Are you running the steam games and the other games on different drives?

 

No, I only have one drive

 

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[Kered124]

How are your system temps during gaming? Check these and make sure you don't have any unexpectedly high temps.

 

Run Memtest86 on a bootable flash drive, verify your RAM is fine. If that comes up fine, I'd highly recommend a reinstall of Windows- with a different install image than you used the first time if possible.

[Berserkr]

9 minutes ago, Kered124 said:

How are your system temps during gaming? Check these and make sure you don't have any unexpectedly high temps.

 

Run Memtest86 on a bootable flash drive, verify your RAM is fine. If that comes up fine, I'd highly recommend a reinstall of Windows- with a different install image than you used the first time if possible.

Temps are just fine, running memtest atm

 

[Berserkr]

1 hour ago, Berserkr said:

Temps are just fine, running memtest atm

 

No errors found. Guess I'll try a fresh install.

[Berserkr]

3 hours ago, Kered124 said:

How are your system temps during gaming? Check these and make sure you don't have any unexpectedly high temps.

 

Run Memtest86 on a bootable flash drive, verify your RAM is fine. If that comes up fine, I'd highly recommend a reinstall of Windows- with a different install image than you used the first time if possible.

Yeah, neither of these worked. About to just blow my brains out. 

[hmminteresting]

Have a play around with the opening commands. Some games are unstable when opened in full screen for the first time. Try starting GTA V in windowed mode to begin with

[Berserkr]

39 minutes ago, hmminteresting said:

Have a play around with the opening commands. Some games are unstable when opened in full screen for the first time. Try starting GTA V in windowed mode to begin with

Running it at lower settings makes it last a little longer before crashing. Probably 2 minutes rather than one. 

[Kered124]

Have you tried running your pc in another room on a separate circuit from your usual one? or on a UPS to clean up the power? I have seen instability due to weirdness with crappy power or a defective powersupply/ motherboard VRM

[hmminteresting]

On 25/07/2018 at 12:18 PM, Berserkr said:

Running it at lower settings makes it last a little longer before crashing. Probably 2 minutes rather than one. 

that sounds like power delivery then. Make sure your graphics card cables are properly inserted. This has happened to me before.

 

Also check the power supply side of the cables