PC Temporarily Freezes and Hangs While Gaming [SOLVED]

[AlmostFheymous]

Hey guys,

I've been looking around these forums for different fixes for over a year now and I thought it was about time that I made a post myself. As the title states, I've been having small micro-freezes and hangs where the audio loops while gaming. Usually these last for 1-3 seconds and happen either consistently every 15 seconds or so, or whenever something happens, such as an explosion or gunshot. I've only really noticed these types of hangs while playing CS:GO and now Battlefield 4. I've tried a bunch of different fixes, but none have worked so I wanted to get some advice as to if it may be hardware related.

Machine specs:

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0ghz
GPU: MSI R9 390 8gb
MEM: 8gb HyperX Fury
HDD: I have two older HDDs which may be the problem everything else has been upgraded within the last 3 years except for the drives, they're probably 6-7 years old

I appreciate in advance anyone who offers any advice!

Fhey

 

[kookie3010]

check your disk with crystaldiskinfo and see hows the health doing.

 

[AlmostFheymous]

It seems like me boot drive's health status is good, but my storage drive has a pending sector count warning. I don't exactly know how to read anything else on this program though.

 

[kookie3010]

It seems like me boot drive's health status is good, but my storage drive has a pending sector count warning. I don't exactly know how to read anything else on this program though.

is ur game on the storage drive?

 

[AlmostFheymous]

Battlefield 4 may be, but I think Counter Strike is on my boot drive and it still has issues.

 

[kookie3010]

Battlefield 4 may be, but I think Counter Strike is on my boot drive and it still has issues.

whats your ingame cpu and gpu usage?

 

[AlmostFheymous]

Looks like CPU usage was sitting around 58-68% and GPU usage was sitting around 100% and would dive sub 25% load whenever there was a hang (I was looking at it through NZXT CAM so it could have been off). My storage drive was only running around 15%, but my boot drive was going from sub-25% to over 75% like a saw-blade pattern. Even while typing this, my boot drive is spiking between 100% and 25%.

 

[kookie3010]

It seems that something is using your drive in the background.maybe windows process or swap file?whats ur anti virus btw

 

[AlmostFheymous]

I believe I use McAfee anti virus. How would I determine/fix if it was a Windows program?

 

[kookie3010]

Try disabling ur anti virus and see how it goes.

 

[AlmostFheymous]

I ended having Windows Defender, and I disabled it which helped a little bit, but after about 5 minutes of gameplay it froze for 1-2 seconds every 5 seconds. I was listening to music through youtube on my second monitor and that played perfectly fine even while my game was frozen.

Somewhere in my house I have two new harddrives to install, but I'm not sure if that's where the problem lies.

 

[kookie3010]

i see.have u try running just the game without anything running in the background?

 

[AlmostFheymous]

I have. It doesn't make much of a difference. Even with no windows open there are still 60+ processes going on my task manager.

 

[AlmostFheymous]

Tried playing again today and the same thing happened. First 5-10 minutes worked perfectly and then it started stuttering every 3 seconds. The only thing I notice is that my boot drive is going from 0% to 100% constantly, even when nothing is running. I don't know what processes I can end either.

 

[kookie3010]

Tried playing again today and the same thing happened. First 5-10 minutes worked perfectly and then it started stuttering every 3 seconds. The only thing I notice is that my boot drive is going from 0% to 100% constantly, even when nothing is running. I don't know what processes I can end either.

attach the picture of your task manager when the disk hit 100%

 

[AlmostFheymous]

Sure thing, here you go.

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[kookie3010]

Sure thing, here you go.

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can u scroll down and attach that pic as well

 

[AlmostFheymous]

There were even more processes, I just didn't want to copy them all.

Task Manager

 

[AlmostFheymous]

Apparently some people have been stating that it's a Windows 10 issue and that reverting back to Windows 7 is the only fix. I may try and find a copy of Windows 7 if possible and see if that fixes anything.

 

[AlmostFheymous]

So apparently Windows 10 wasn't meshing well with my older HDD's so it was bottlenecking their performance. I went back to Windows 7 and my PC runs like a dream. There may have been other fixes like installing new HDD's, but at this point in time re-rolling back to Win7 was the easiest solution.