PC randomly freezes after closing games

[kardinalfm84]

Helly guys,
for around 10 days I have issuses with my PC. It regularly freezes after quitting a game (no issues during gameplay)
It happens everytime I close Assassins Creed Unity on Steam and in around 50 percent of cases when I finish Wolfenstein the New Colossus on Steam.
Problem does not appear however after I finish Red Dead Redemption 2 on Epic or Hellblade on GOG.
I run my games from an external SATA SSD connected by a Sabrent USB 3.0 adapter.
Drivers for mainboard, graphics and Windows are all up to date.
Sfc/Scannow does not show any problems nor does Health check.
I also checked the integrity of the SSD by Windows, seemingly no issues either.
I reinstalled Steam too, did not help either.
I use Windows 11 pro with the following hardware:

7800X3D
MSI PRO B650-P WIFI
Gskill 32 GB PC6000
WD 1 TB SM 770 Black
Powercolor RX 7900 XTX OC Hellhound
XPG Core Reactor 850W

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[MJS WARLORD]

Just wondering if you made the same mistake as me when you first started using steam.

How do you shut steam down , do you hit the X at top right or do you click the word steam top left then choose close.

The reason i ask is because for years i did top right X then when i got a game called satisfactory my pc would just hang and not shut off unless i did forced restart then shut down.

steam top left then exit is the correct way

 

[kardinalfm84]

The PC already freezes before I can even try to close steam. I basically click "back to desktop" in the game and then it freezes.

 

[MJS WARLORD]

I just re read your thread , i was going to put some games on an external ssd just like you have because my 2 ssd are getting full , forums and the company who built my pc said putting games on an external ssd is not recommended .

This may take a bit of time but i would put a copy of a games client on the pc's man drive and then install a game that has been causing you problems.

If nothing goes wrong then i would say the problems are happening because your games are on an external drive.