[SOLVED] Games freeze and crash displaying hung error

[Hyukki]

CPU:
Intel - Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

Motherboard:
Asus - Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard

Memory:
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3000MHz
Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory

Storage:
Samsung - 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB Solid State Drive
Samsung - 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Western Digital - Black 6TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM

Video Card:
Asus - ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Gaming OC

Case:
Cooler Master - Storm Trooper (Windowed) ATX Full Tower Case

Power Supply:
EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Operating System:
Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit

The problem started happening suddenly around 6 months ago. Whenever I launch a game, within about 2 - 5 minutes the game would freeze, maybe blink a few times with the sound cutting in and out and then it would go black and an error box with the message :

DirectX function "GetDeviceRemovedReason" failed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG ("The device is hung which is typically caused by issues in the graphics driver or alternatively the application"). GPU: "NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080 Ti", Driver:46677

I've also had artifacts come up across my screen when I was outside of a game and while there was no game launched. There was one point where my second monitor was completely unresponsive while the first displayed artifacts. The system restarted itself. I've been troubleshooting as to what could be causing it. I've gotten into contact with Nvidia who then had me try more troubleshooting which ended up crashing my pc entirely. The only games I've been able to play are Skyrim and Oblivion. I haven't tried other Bethesda games, but any other game crashed. I wanted to take it into a shop to have it diagnosed, but am looking for a job. Until then I hope that maybe someone would have a solution on here.

 

[bobalazs]

Artifacts in general mean gpu memory defect, perhaps you should get ready for a failing gpu.
One solution usually is to decrease the gpu and or memory clocks Mhz, to anacceptable level your gpu can handle without failure.

 

[Hyukki]

Artifacts in general mean gpu memory defect, perhaps you should get ready for a failing gpu.
One solution usually is to decrease the gpu and or memory clocks Mhz, to anacceptable level your gpu can handle without failure.

By decreasing it, would it affect the performance greatly? I thought that it might have been dying. I haven't had it long either. Like two, maybe three years.

 

[bobalazs]

Not greatly, no. you don't need to decrease a lot, lets say 50 or 100 Mhz. That's a few fps at best.