- Mar 17, 2016
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I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but I've tried everything I can think of. Background information, I used to have a windows 7 PC that ran everything perfectly. I tried to upgrade it to windows 10 twice, and both times I had crashing issues. With this in mind I always downgraded to windows 7.
I recently upgraded my PC, with this I installed windows 10. The only thing I kept was the GPU which was a Nvidia 560 SE (I believe it to be a GPU issue, but I could be wrong. I can find my other specs if needed.). Right away I had crashing issues, every DirectX game I installed had crashing issues. I would get 5 minutes into a game, then it would crash. Sometimes less, sometimes more. But, if I installed OPENGL games I had no issues. As the games I was playing were mostly OPENGL it didn't bother me much. Then all of a sudden yesterday when I was playing Dota 2, my screen froze... but just the picture. I could still move around in game/hear what was happening and talk with my mic, but the picture was frozen. This happened 4-5 times... I went into Rocket League on directX and had the same issue. It wasn't just an openGL issue but a games issue. Rocket league direct X still had the 5 minute crash, but now also the freezing constantly. Games were unplayable. At this point I assumed it was a Windows 10 install issue... I did a clean install of Windows 10, reinstalled everything and now Direct X games were working... but I still maintained the freezing issue. So, I have now installed a brand new copy of Windows 7, same issue. I'm 100% sure my drivers are up to date, and from what I can tell I have no CPU/Memory spikes or anything when it freezes. But weirdly with Windows 7 the freezes don't last forever, they freeze than return to game after 30-40 seconds, only to freeze again later. I honestly don't know what to do, I can't really afford a new GPU so I would appreciate any assistance to confirm what this could be, or if I'm just screwed. (I've spent hours googling, but no luck) I'm currently 16, so I don't have any tech experience beforehand, so I might have missed something.
I recently upgraded my PC, with this I installed windows 10. The only thing I kept was the GPU which was a Nvidia 560 SE (I believe it to be a GPU issue, but I could be wrong. I can find my other specs if needed.). Right away I had crashing issues, every DirectX game I installed had crashing issues. I would get 5 minutes into a game, then it would crash. Sometimes less, sometimes more. But, if I installed OPENGL games I had no issues. As the games I was playing were mostly OPENGL it didn't bother me much. Then all of a sudden yesterday when I was playing Dota 2, my screen froze... but just the picture. I could still move around in game/hear what was happening and talk with my mic, but the picture was frozen. This happened 4-5 times... I went into Rocket League on directX and had the same issue. It wasn't just an openGL issue but a games issue. Rocket league direct X still had the 5 minute crash, but now also the freezing constantly. Games were unplayable. At this point I assumed it was a Windows 10 install issue... I did a clean install of Windows 10, reinstalled everything and now Direct X games were working... but I still maintained the freezing issue. So, I have now installed a brand new copy of Windows 7, same issue. I'm 100% sure my drivers are up to date, and from what I can tell I have no CPU/Memory spikes or anything when it freezes. But weirdly with Windows 7 the freezes don't last forever, they freeze than return to game after 30-40 seconds, only to freeze again later. I honestly don't know what to do, I can't really afford a new GPU so I would appreciate any assistance to confirm what this could be, or if I'm just screwed. (I've spent hours googling, but no luck) I'm currently 16, so I don't have any tech experience beforehand, so I might have missed something.
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