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Question Stuttering and freezing of computer in games

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Hi. I have a problem where my computer freezes and stutters in SOME games. (Games it has happened on; Rust, Grand Theft Auto 5, Batman; Arkham Knight, Also briefly for just a second on Minecraft yesterday.)
Surprisingly, It has never happened on PUBG, or Garry's Mod and a few other games.

I thought it was a PSU problem firstly, as my last computer, (prebuilt by the same company as the computer I have now) had its PSU blow up spontaneously after a week of the problem occuring.)
So, I replaced my PSU. Here's a thread of that. https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/help-me-with-my-issue.3492717/

I have an ASUS G11CD-K computer.
My specs are;
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700 3.6GHz
Motherboard: Intel H110 Express
Ram: DDR4 2400MHz 8GB*2 (16 GB total)
SSD/HDD: 256 GB M.2 SSD + 2 TB HDD 7200RPM
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX1070 8GBDDR5
Chassis: G11CD Mid-Tower???
PSU: iPower 85 550
OS: Windows 10

My computer seems to freeze up on -some- games, no matter if i lower the quality settings of the game to the lowest. It doesn't matter. And just to be clear, the -entire- computer freezes. The only way to interact, is to press the power button on my case.
Here's an issue I found in event manager that happened twice in the last hour apparently, not a critical one, just under the "Error" category. Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing/Admin ID; 2
And I -really- need help with this issue. I can't find any reason for why my computer is behaving like this.
Things I have tried;
Running all Microsoft diagnostic tools referred to me
System restore (complete restore, only installed safe software such as Discord, Steam etc afterwards.)
Updating all drivers
Updating BIOS
Buying a new PSU and replacing my old one


Shoutout to; @Ralston18 @Mandark and @60frames for trying to help me on my last thread. But, sadly, as it is with computers sometimes, the problem persists.
Please, please please help. Many thanks.
 
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use msi after burner to monitor system usage and tell us the results
Already using it. The usage is regular. It's as it should be. Trust (Already looked it up), BUT BUT BUT, I used /sfc scannow and got this result in command prompt
View: https://i.imgur.com/hBZLjZT.png

This means something is broke. Big broke, I think.
So, I went to the CBS log file, and in this pastebin are ALL the files that couldn't be repaired, from what I'm seeing, it can be antivirus related? Should I disable windows defender??

edit; okay, i think im stupid, so i ran Avast (i know, terrible antivirus, comes standard with my PC)
and ran the driver updater (free version so can only look for outdated drivers on it)
aaaand...
View: https://i.imgur.com/P09BYVR.png

The dates are 2016, 2015, 2006, and even FUCKING 1970. Yes, I have some drivers, from 1970??? how plz explain anyways gonna try updating these (dont know how to but finna try)

edit; found another issue, while launching and playing the first cutscene of Batman Arkham Knight, this error appeared;
View: https://i.imgur.com/ahvgbAR.png

I circled in the "important" parts like kernelbase.dll and kernel32 in the image.

Again, someone PLEASE help.
 
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