Question Steam is locking up my computer after exiting any game, even after reinstalling multiple times.

Sep 28, 2024
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I have an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 32GB of Ram and a GTX 3060.

I've reinstalled Steam and ran HLL, Fallout 4, and a few other games and it doesn't matter which, with my task manager open, the CPU percentage spikes right after I exit out of a game, and my computer locks up, having then to force restart my whole computer.
 

KingLoki

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Jul 10, 2024
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Are you overclocking any hardware components, e.g ram, cpu, gpu ? Are you using keyboard only or controller for games?
You can also try running steam in safe mode to run a game and see what it does.
 
Sep 28, 2024
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Are you overclocking any hardware components, e.g ram, cpu, gpu ? Are you using keyboard only or controller for games?
You can also try running steam in safe mode to run a game and see what it does.
All of my main components are factory issued standard and I am not, nor previously, overclocked either the CPU, RAM nor GPU.

I will try the safe mode and see how that works.