Back story.
I have an ssd for my C drive, Windows 10 and a few programs & games on the ssd. Some programs and games go on my E drive 1TB HDD along with all my storage.
Over the course of the last 6 months, I have experienced hard locking, mostly when I am in a game, sometimes if I have a game open and I've switched to working in another program, sometimes when a game isn't even running and I was working with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, working with posters and pictures. I thought when I had upgraded to an 8gb video card before this, 16gb ram, I should be able to handle anything.
I have wiped the ssd, reinstalled windows and have a very fresh system with Radeon driver installed with the AMD app, with only 1 game installed. Still hard locked, it just freezes 5 or 10 mins into the game, picture still on the screen, mouse and keyboard locked, no crash dump info, no error window, no blue screen, just freezes, forcing me to do a hard reset.
I upgraded my PSU to a Gold Rated Gigabyte G750H just before Christmas. Still hardlocking when I try to play Anno 1800, Two Point Hospital, Transport Fever2, but all other instances outside gaming seem to have been solved, and I'm able to play Factorio without anything happening.
Added Issue
I asked for help from Anno 1800 tech because once I'm in the start menu, it won't load a save or a new game, just endlessly stays loading. They asked me to do a DISM restore health and a sfc scannow, my PC said it was able to repair some corrupt files and told me to restart, when I did, my computer wouldn't load. It just stayed stuck on the loading screen with the owner avatar and the endless spinning circle, but my screen would flick off for about 5 sec and back on for less than a second repeatedly. I even left it for 4 hours to see if it would finally load, but nothing worked. A hard reset wouldn't work, only a 10 sec power button hold would turn it off, and I could get to troubleshooting. Eventually, I reinstalled windows, again. Tried the dism and scannow on a fresh windows install with nothing else installed and it did the same thing, wouldn't load, screen flashing on and off. They told me it was a Windows issue, which is why I'm posting this thread here. So I am basically stuck there. I can run Factorio, and all my other programs. Transport Fever 2 has a benchmark tool and says I should run on ultra settings but hard locks after 10 mins on high or medium settings, not even ultra. No other games run for long before hard locking.
Here is my Speccy: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/mUgAvUtm5FsOT3SYmTobdrH
I have a screenshot of Radeon app showing driver is up to date but I don't see a way to attach files.
Please help!!!
I have an ssd for my C drive, Windows 10 and a few programs & games on the ssd. Some programs and games go on my E drive 1TB HDD along with all my storage.
Over the course of the last 6 months, I have experienced hard locking, mostly when I am in a game, sometimes if I have a game open and I've switched to working in another program, sometimes when a game isn't even running and I was working with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, working with posters and pictures. I thought when I had upgraded to an 8gb video card before this, 16gb ram, I should be able to handle anything.
I have wiped the ssd, reinstalled windows and have a very fresh system with Radeon driver installed with the AMD app, with only 1 game installed. Still hard locked, it just freezes 5 or 10 mins into the game, picture still on the screen, mouse and keyboard locked, no crash dump info, no error window, no blue screen, just freezes, forcing me to do a hard reset.
I upgraded my PSU to a Gold Rated Gigabyte G750H just before Christmas. Still hardlocking when I try to play Anno 1800, Two Point Hospital, Transport Fever2, but all other instances outside gaming seem to have been solved, and I'm able to play Factorio without anything happening.
Added Issue
I asked for help from Anno 1800 tech because once I'm in the start menu, it won't load a save or a new game, just endlessly stays loading. They asked me to do a DISM restore health and a sfc scannow, my PC said it was able to repair some corrupt files and told me to restart, when I did, my computer wouldn't load. It just stayed stuck on the loading screen with the owner avatar and the endless spinning circle, but my screen would flick off for about 5 sec and back on for less than a second repeatedly. I even left it for 4 hours to see if it would finally load, but nothing worked. A hard reset wouldn't work, only a 10 sec power button hold would turn it off, and I could get to troubleshooting. Eventually, I reinstalled windows, again. Tried the dism and scannow on a fresh windows install with nothing else installed and it did the same thing, wouldn't load, screen flashing on and off. They told me it was a Windows issue, which is why I'm posting this thread here. So I am basically stuck there. I can run Factorio, and all my other programs. Transport Fever 2 has a benchmark tool and says I should run on ultra settings but hard locks after 10 mins on high or medium settings, not even ultra. No other games run for long before hard locking.
Here is my Speccy: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/mUgAvUtm5FsOT3SYmTobdrH
I have a screenshot of Radeon app showing driver is up to date but I don't see a way to attach files.
Please help!!!