Game Freezing, rest of PC keeps working fine

TrueKyo · August 29, 2018

I am having random game freezes, they freeze for about 5 minutes at a time. The issues seems to be random, It has happen with 3 games so far, Minecraft, Monster Hunter, and Factorio. When the freeze happens I can Alt + Tab out of the game with no problem, I can keep watching videos and do as I please, but the game screen will freeze(It has not crashed the game so far). Games always come back to live after 5 minutes or so of a blank screen. This all started happening when I upgraded my PC.

My PC:

i7-8700k (not overclocked)

ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Turbo (Had from previous build, had no issues)

Corsair CX Series 750 Watt (Had from previous build, had no issues)

Corsair Vengeance RGB 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz

ASUS ROG Strix Z370-E Gaming

CORSAIR HYDRO SERIES H100i v2

Things I did:

Made sure all connections where secured, unplug everything and re plugged it in.

Ran Windows RAM check

New Windows 10 Pro 64bit

All drivers up to date, including BIOS

I monitor all my temperatures and usage of hardware at the time it happened with no spikes when it happens.

Thank you in advance for your time and any advice, please let me know if you need me any more information.

suchamoneypit · August 29, 2018

Drivers could be up to date, but specifically what about the GPU drivers? Its a possibility that they self-updated to a new version without your intervention or knowledge and the drivers are causing the issue. It would make sense as it seems to be random and not tied to the upgrade and is game dependent.

Anyways, some advise, troubleshooting is like a big checklist, and eventually your only left with a single item left, and that's the issue. So by checking different drivers you can confidently check that off the list as a possible factor if it doesn't work, and then try and test another. Until either you have everything but one issue left (and you get your answer) or you cross enough off the list that you run into the problem it. I start by testing all the obvious things, like loose cables and what not, and then once I have some major issues I suspect could be the issue, I begin to test and rule out starting from what I think is most likely the issue (and over time, experience with hardware can drastically improve your ability to find out what the issue could be,for example when a friends PC wouldn't boot, and his liquid cooler wasn't working, I immediately figured it was CPU related issues and didn't bother checking the RAM or GPU).