Sudden freezing / stuttering in games.

Hello,

I would appreciate if someone could help me out with a very strange problem I came across just recently. It all started a few days ago when the video card, I'm fairly sure it's the video card, started making a buzzing, sort of an electric, sound when a game was launched. I assumed it was coil whine, as it would stop when minimized, etc. So today I was playing Alien: Isolation. It was running on Ultra perfectly without a hitch until at one point the game started freezing. It would freeze for a second and keep going, except it kept getting more frequent until it froze entirely. The sound kept going though. I had to eventually restart the PC. I did get a strange "no signal" from the monitor whilst the game was still frozen and I tried to ctl+alt+del it to no avail before I had to restart it.

I thought maybe it was a glitch with the game, as it sometimes happens. However, once I booted it back up the game had started to randomly stutter as I tried to turn around or just move the camera. It didn't all the time, but it was noticeable. Especially because It was running butter smooth before. It didn't freeze any more though. I also tested out Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and, strangely, the game takes at least 3 times as long to load as it used to. I tried the benchmark and the average frames were 71, but the stuttering problem is in the actual game, just the same as it was in Alien: Isolation. It was running perfectly smoothly before today. I noticed that some textures take a while to load, blurry even as I walk right onto them. A whole orc hold was a big, blurry mess for a while.

I don't know if it's related but I've noticed some random page freezing on youtube as well, similarly to the freeze in Alien the sound remained going without a hitch.

This is my PC: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/compu...-delivery/142/

Thank you for your time!

Hi, your link is dead, can't see the specs.

manu2b said:

Hi, your link is dead, can't see the specs.

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Sorry, let's try again: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/computers-for-next-day-delivery/142/

Are your video card fans ok? My first thought is your card is over heating.

I would not say so, as it's freezing even on youtube, and I doubt the GPU is overheating then.

$70 4 phase motherboard for an 8350? I wonder if the VRMs are getting toasty...

Nope, temperatures are fine. Currently at 27C. Gaming it doesn't get higher than 62C. I wouldn't describe anything as toasty in there. Another thing: The PC took its sweet time shutting down yesterday. When I turned it on this morning the screen was displaying "shutting down." It did turn down last night as far as I can tell. Also, once when I accidentally unplugged the power cable it refused to turn back on for a while. 5 minutes at least. The power button was completely unresponsive. Could this be the power supply?

62°C for a 8350 (cores) starts to be toasty.

I am with E_D: this mobo can hardly handle 8350 and might start showing signs of tiredness...

Edit: regarding the PSU, I don't think so. It's a good unit, and your config is not even using half of its power.

No, no. That was the GPU temperature. The processor stays at around 54C when gaming.

Ahh, OK.

E_D is talking about the motherboards voltage regulators: the 8350 is a power monster, and the motherboard you are using is way underpowered for it.

Which means the voltage regulators (VRM's) are heating up too much (and might die BTW).

Try blowing fresh air on them with a small 92mm or 8mm fan if you have it handy (yellow circle in the pic):

Exactly... try touching those when you start getting choppy.. if they are hot to the touch, cool them off.

Please post pictures of Hwmonitor when at load and stuttering so we can see all the temps...

Right, so which motherboard would work great for it?

BEst would be Sabertooth 990fx, or Asrock 990FX Extreme 9.

Edit: when I say "best", I mean most suitable.

Edit 2:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cm_re=sabertooth_990fx-_-13-131-877-_-Product

and

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cm_re=asrock_extreme_9-_-13-157-358-_-Product

So I just launched the game to test the temps and the stuttering has stopped. Mordor is also loading just as it used to. I didn't think it would work but I uninstalled the new drivers and installed a beta version. This seems to have solved it, but could it be that the drivers started acting up with a delay or is this really a hardware problem? The temps after an hour of playing:

That can happen, sure...

Neonoms said:

Also, once when I accidentally unplugged the power cable it refused to turn back on for a while. 5 minutes at least. The power button was completely unresponsive. Could this be the power supply?

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If your PSU is overheating it will shut your system down. Then your system will start back up later, overheat and shut down again.

I don't see how this necessarily applies to your other problems however.