PC freezes on some games with sound still playing.

simonax12

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My computer is freezing on certain games like skyrim or CSGO and i cant alt tab or ctrl+alt+delete eather so i can only force restart. On skyrim it can freeze in 5-10 minutes regardless of graphics settings(it freezes same on low,medium and high or ultra) with sound still or sometimes it does buzzing sound eg when im in skype call while playing. The game should easily work according to my specs. CSGO is game that freezes rarely ive played the game for 100hours and it only froze overall 2-3 times with big gap between them also it looks like the freezing happens randomly not during specific action eg explosion. Some games work fine e.g garry mod(loaded with mods), sniper elite 2, payday 2 and games with big maps: Tera,gta 4/sa and torchlight 2. Older games seem to also freeze e.g fallout new vegas, civilization 5 and mortal kombat and some others. BTW i use no mods on games that freeze and i also have tried unofficial patches on skyrim to see if it fixes but it doesn't.

CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
Motherboard: M68MT-S2P
RAM: 4GB
Video card: Geforce GTX 460 SE
OS: Windows 7 Professional edition service pack 1

I have tried using GPU stress test to see if anything is wrong with GPU the test i did was with Furmark the first time i did it, it froze then i tried again twice with same settings (1080p) and it didnt freeze and passed the test. Also I did CPU stress test with Prime95 i only ran the test for 2 hours but it came with no errors at all. 6-8 months ago i did memtest86 overnight and it came out with no errors i will do one again to check. I tried reinstalling windows and just installing drivers and skyrim but it still froze. So as far as i know its not software related but i have no idea what could it be. P.S i have reapplied all the thermal paste on GPU and CPU so to see if it helps and all the dust got cleaned but non of it helped. P.P.S i don't overclock my CPU or GPU

Sorry if i posted this in wrong section im new here.
 
i think you have posted this in the correct place
try updating your graphics drivers and other drivers and directx
how much graphics do you have and what is the temperature when yo play games