All the games CRASH!

[seba.stroie]

Hi! I've recently reinstalled Windows 10 since I had some trouble with malwares and so on. Now, I've got into a lot of trouble even more deeply. I have a GTX 1060 6GB, an i5 6500 and 12 gigs of ram. The thing is that EVERY SINGLE GAME crashes. Whether they are on steam or origin, they all crash at some point. I'm already really pissed off by this issue and I don't know what I should do. I am using Windows 10, it's not activated, but I've got it from the Microsoft official site. (I've added no activators or stuff like that, everything is clean) I must mention that no game used to crash before... I am legitimately annoyed...
Things I've done so far: reinstalled the display driver, verified games' integrity through Steam. Neither has worked. Oh, and I also deactivated Cortana and xbox DVR.

 

[vapour]

what psu is it?

 

[seba.stroie]

It's a Sirtec - High Power EP-500BR II, 80+ Bronze, 500W, but it has started happening lately, could the issue come from the psu?

 

[vapour]

psu is no good, could be breaking down. I suggest you borrow a good one and test.

 

[seba.stroie]

I'm not sure I can agree with you, I usually get crashes in certain games, whenever I play X-Plane 11 and Rust with complete ultra settings, they run really smoothly and without problems. Nevertheless, games that shouldn't require too much, such as Dota 2 and Counter Strike, sometimes even Golf with your friends, have the bad habit to crash all of a sudden. I'll try an get my hands on a different PSU though, thanks!

 

[g-unit1111]

I'm not sure I can agree with you, I usually get crashes in certain games, whenever I play X-Plane 11 and Rust with complete ultra settings, they run really smoothly and without problems. Nevertheless, games that shouldn't require too much, such as Dota 2 and Counter Strike, sometimes even Golf with your friends, have the bad habit to crash all of a sudden. I'll try an get my hands on a different PSU though, thanks!

No it most definitely is the PSU. Sirtec is a brand that is known to be housefire quality. If every single game crashes, it's most likely that your GPU is drawing huge power loads that will overload your PSU, causing it to fail. People point to the PSU being the problem because 9 out of 10 times it more than likely is the problem. Sirtec are among the worst of the worst PSUs you could possibly buy. You need to replace that with something much better ASAP.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Reinstalling the driver is not usually successful if there are already driver issues. Even running the DDU is not enough, if you don't run it in Safe mode. I'd suggest you try that first, before going off on other tangents. It's true that is not the greatest PSU around, compared to what available these days, and it's most likely a really old unit since that model hasn't been manufactured in some time, but I'd still at least try the DDU in safe mode first, and then I'd want to know more about why your OS is not activated if it's a legitimate copy.

Normally this is something that happens automatically. There are no "activators" that need to to be added or anything else. If the system is legit, it activates, period. If it does not, then there is a problem.

How to boot into safe mode in Windows 10


*Graphics card CLEAN install tutorial using the DDU*

 

[seba.stroie]

I've used DDU but not in safe mode, I'll do that once again later. It's not activated since I've chosen to skip the activation part during the installation. I downloaded it from microsoft.com

 

[Darkbreeze]

There is no logical reason to not activate. Some features are disabled and the OS is usually watermarked on the desktop when it is a non-activated version. I would activate by going into the control panel, system applet and clicking on the activation link if it is not already activated.

Unfortunately, we cannot help with unactivated operating systems since we have no way of knowing whether that is by choice or due to being a pirated or unpurchased version of the OS.