Every time I play a game (Shadow of Mordor, FF14: ARR) it randomly freezes or completely crashes the game. The frequency of the freezes vary between 30 mins - 1 hour and it requires me to close the game and re-launch it, but NEVER CRASHES THE PC. For the most part, the games run at sleek 90+ FPS at maximum settings but when the freeze happens, the game video stops but the sound plays as normal. No FPS drops prior to the freeze, just freezes for a couple of seconds. Some occasions when it recovers the screen goes black and goes back to running the game normally. I've only had the rig for a couple of days and it's my first time building a PC so I'm not exactly sure where I've gone wrong. Please find my specs below and steps I took to resolving the issue, but not luck:
- Installed necessary drivers for components: CPU / GPU / MOBO.
- Reseated all components in the rig to make sure there were no iffiness that happened during the building process.
- Manually controlled my GPU fan and increased instead of setting it to Auto to make sure that it's not my GPU overheating.
- Underclocked my GPU to 90%
- Changed game settings to Medium instead of Ultra to see any differences.
Please find my specs attached below:
OS: Win 8.1 64bit
CPU: Intel i5 4670K
MOBO: MSI Z97 PC MATE
GPU: ASUS AMD R9 290 DirectCU II OC
MEMORY: ADATA USA XPG V1.0 OC Series 8GB DDR3 1866MHZ (2x 4GB)
PSU: Thermaltake Smart Standard 750W
HD: WD 1TB Hard Drive
- Installed necessary drivers for components: CPU / GPU / MOBO.
- Reseated all components in the rig to make sure there were no iffiness that happened during the building process.
- Manually controlled my GPU fan and increased instead of setting it to Auto to make sure that it's not my GPU overheating.
- Underclocked my GPU to 90%
- Changed game settings to Medium instead of Ultra to see any differences.
Please find my specs attached below:
OS: Win 8.1 64bit
CPU: Intel i5 4670K
MOBO: MSI Z97 PC MATE
GPU: ASUS AMD R9 290 DirectCU II OC
MEMORY: ADATA USA XPG V1.0 OC Series 8GB DDR3 1866MHZ (2x 4GB)
PSU: Thermaltake Smart Standard 750W
HD: WD 1TB Hard Drive