Games do NOTHING when started (on New Windows 7)

[Achint2000]

After a new Windows 7 installation, I reinstalled everything on my new SSD but some specific games: GTA 4, NFS Most Wanted 2012, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed Revelations when launched, just eat up a limited amount of RAM (350 MB for GTA4, 13MB for NFS13) and sit there and do NOTHING. I have no idea why. Reinstalling doesn't help at all.

I've installed GTA 5 with all my previous graphics mods, same for Need for Speed 2015, Saints Row IV, Saints Row. The Third, NFS Undercover, NFS Most Wanted 2005, DmC Devil May Cry 5, Life is Strange... ALL my other games are working flawlessly on full graphics. Nothing is overheating, everything else is stable. Installed latest Nvidia Drivers, got most updates from Windows Update.

In resource monitor, I right click on any of the game processes and click "Analyze Wait Chain", I get this:

For NFS MW2:

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For GTA 4:

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GTAIV.exe

LaunchGTAIV.exe:

Same happens with other games. I start them and in Resource Monitor, they do 100+ Hard Faults/second and then do nothing.

Is there anything common required by these two games? (like .NET Framework, VisualC++) ?
I searched alot, no luck.

System Specs:

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i7 7700K @ 4.5 GHz
Strix 970 4GD5 @ 1468 MHz Core OC
G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2x 8GB) @ 3200 MHz X.M.P
ASUS STRiX z270F Gaming
Corsair RX850M 80 Plus Gold
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB SSD
WD Caviar Blue & Green 1 TB each (internal HDDs)
3x External 1TB HDDs (idk if it matters but anyway)
Deepcool GAMMAXX400 CPU cooler w. Antec Silver 5 Thermal Compound
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Service Pack 1

 

[Achint2000]

Ok, I noticed every single one of these games did like 200 HardFaults/Second when I started them, and all of their setups had Visual C++ 2005.

So, I disabled Pagefile from Properties of My Computer > Advanced System Settings > Settings > Advanced > Change Virtual Memory > No Paging File.
Then I went to appwiz.cpl in cmd and doubleclicked on every single VisualC++ and .NET Framework, repaired the ones which had the option and uninstalled the rest.

I have 16GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD which had the pagefile, so disabling that 8GB Pagefile wasn't that much of a problem 😀

Restarted my computer and it works! Every single game which wasn't working!

UPDATE: Another reason was ASUS Sonic Studio drivers. You uninstall them and all games just work again.