(resolved) PC is unresponsive when playing games on Windows 10

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Lately I've been having an issue. Any time I play a game on steam for a period of time, my PC eventually freezes and becomes completely unresponsive. No mouse, nothing. I'm forced to hard reboot my desktop. I built this PC a few months ago and the hardware all works fine; I suspect that this is a driver issue. I've had trouble with my nvidia drivers as of late. I've used DDU tools to uninstall and perform a clean installation of these drivers; however, I still get these crashes. They became somewhat frequent today, soon after I reinstalled my drivers.

I think a clean installation of Windows 10 will probably fix the problem, but I'd like to confirm that with you guys.

SPECS: (processor) AMD A8-7600 Kaveri; (graphics card) GTX 1050 Ti; (ram) 8GB 2133mhz DDR3; (hdd) 1TB WD Blue (motherboard is probably irrelevant)
 


actually, it turns out in the UEFI i had it set to using my APU graphics AND my nvidia graphics causing issues

already resolved it myself, i'll close this thread