PC Freezing in games :(

[Morgiman]

Before we get into this, please ignore my username. I made this account a while ago.
Recently my PC has been freezing in games for a few seconds every so often. I was playing rFactor and the game was constantly locking up. I was also having an issue in Hitman. Whenever I tried to hit somebody, the game would freeze and then be really unresponsive until the task was complete. Same applied when walking around. This has stopped. Next thing, I was playing GTA V and I was using a trainer and the same problem occured, the game felt unresponsive when I tried to do something. I don't know what to do. I have the latest drivers at the moment. I tried reinstalling, nothing. Checked for viruses, nothing. I had a look at a program which monitors my HDD. The health status is at 'Caution'.

HDD Issues:
Relocated Sectors Count
Current Pending Sector Count
Uncorrectable Sector count

My specs:
GPU: MSI GTX 1060 6GB Gaming X
CPU: AMD FX8350 (Going soon)
Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming
RAM: Corsair Dominator 16GB DDR3
PSU: Evga 1000W
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo
HDD: Seagate ST2000DM001

My temps are fine, running under 40.

 

[Barty1884]

Those specs don't work together. Z97 is an Intel chipset, FX8350 is AMD. Which motherboard do you have specifically?

The HDD status being "caution" could be a problem - if the issues were only appearing at load/save times, it would be pretty definitive.

Where is the game/save files stored? If on the HDD, try moving them to the SSD to rule out the HDD as the problem (although should be replaced sooner than later).

Are you monitoring CPU/GPU/RAM utilization/temps?

What settings are you playing at? What resolution?

 

[Morgiman]

My temps on my GPU are below 30. My CPU is running in the low 30's. I game on High-Ultra at 1080p. Don't know my RAM temps. I also changed the model of the Motherboard in the description. My bad, I got mixed up with another model.

 

[Barty1884]

Low 30's at Idle I assume?

Gaming at high-ultra 1080p, your CPU/GPU simply cannot be in the high 20s-mid 30's unless it's like 2'C ambient.

 

[Morgiman]

When sat idle yes. The GPU when gaming was a little higher, mid to late thirties. The CPU is similar to idle. I was on the trainer for GTA and the game was fine spawning cars, until I pressed 'Input Model', where the PC froze for a few seconds.

 

[Morgiman]

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