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Hello there! Recently whilst using my PC, It has started to be very irritating with freezing. I noticed this after playing GTA 5, my system periodically will freeze for 2-3 mins without moving (Sometimes audio freezes, sometimes not) and will freeze if I try to shift-tab for steam overlay or alt-tab from games that are windowed borderless (Tried on CS:GO, LoL and GTA5, the former 2 I have never had issues with before)

Now I don't know if this is a fault of the Game ready driver for GTA 5 that I installed from Nvidea as I've never had a problem prior to downloading and running GTA.

For reference, my system is:
Palit GTX 760
Amd 6350
16gb ddr3 ram
MSI 990FXA-GD65

Has anyone got an idea what could cause this? When I'm doing nothing my cpu reads 08% and my ram 33% and this still causes a freeze if I try to open a program such as Teamspeak, using Windows basic layout doesn't help either, this is on Win7.

Thanks!
 
Solution
durgesh86
Alright,
This seems that i can either be software related or hardware related.
If you think its Hardware relative, then try a chkdsk /r.... check PSU performance, check RAM.
(If you have extra hardware like a PSU or RAM then check if using that helps)
If you think its software then then
1) see if doing system restore to the date when the issue did not happen works .
2) Check Event Viewer to see if there are any processes that give error during the "freeze time"
3) Run Sysinternals (MS Tool) to identify if there are any process that impact the resources and cause the freeze.

Last resort considering its software related...Take backup ...fresh install Windows.
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I rolled back my driver but it's not fixed the issue, still freezes my pc if I want to open Teamspeak, CS:GO, shift tab in game or go on gta, also happens with google hangout. System periodically freezes for 3 mins too.
My heats ain't that high on my parts either so idk what is wrong.
 
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Hi,
Have you checked services and applications running in the background ? (in Task Manager under Processes)
Try disabling all startup items (Task Manager under Startup) and check if issue still reoccurs if no then there is a resource hogging application running in the background and you need to identify it.
If the issue still reoccurs then try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers.
 
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Ran chkdsk, didn't do anything sadly.
CPU temps are 42 on idle and 57 when in game, that's using speccy.
My widget on the desktop shows that on idle that my cpu is on 08% and ram on 30-35% so it can't be excessive load or anything like that, it's not on start up that it freezes, it's just if I try to open games/teamspeak/hangout and use shift tab in game, I can tab out of games like csgo fine now.
Installed the previous drivers and have same issue however.
 
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Alright,
This seems that i can either be software related or hardware related.
If you think its Hardware relative, then try a chkdsk /r.... check PSU performance, check RAM.
(If you have extra hardware like a PSU or RAM then check if using that helps)
If you think its software then then
1) see if doing system restore to the date when the issue did not happen works .
2) Check Event Viewer to see if there are any processes that give error during the "freeze time"
3) Run Sysinternals (MS Tool) to identify if there are any process that impact the resources and cause the freeze.

Last resort considering its software related...Take backup ...fresh install Windows.
 
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I've done the above but still not managed to solve it, tried to do a system restore, wouldn't allow me to ( tried two dates without anti-virus enabled and it said that it was unable to)
I doubt it's my speeds, but below is a screencap of what speccy says:
http://gyazo.com/48e14bb213093340d3610897bcae0586
http://gyazo.com/74e7e2c946b14747bf005447dddac352
http://gyazo.com/d97c90d2211e3691a65aacfc0573b302
http://gyazo.com/9d575667ccd63328a2b7355dad63ff49
http://gyazo.com/cab29b54dae7d978dcc39d1989e41869
http://gyazo.com/a5a20814f76654ec91b7c54e5d2a8da7

I downloaded proecexp and procmon but I'm not going to pretend I have a clue what I'm looking at there.
 
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Hi,
If it works in Safe mode means there is a 3rd Party software interference. This can be some other application or driver realted. Try following these:
1) Check startup items and disable all items (Task Manager>Startup Tab> Right-click > Disable)
After disabling restart and check if the system runs fine. If yes then Enable the items one by one to identify the one thats causing the issue

2) Try reinstalling the softwares (Hangout, Teamspeak etc) (probably the last step)
3) Try uninstalling and re-installing the drivers (not updating, but complete reinstall)
All the best !!!
 
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