Freezing in Games
Freezing in Games
In the past few months I've noticed issues in games that previously ran well (especially Hunt Showdown and Age of Empires Defiant Edition). I'm still maintaining 50-60 FPS at high graphics settings. In Hunt Showdown the game freezes briefly before restarting in about 5-10 seconds. With Age of Empires I encounter a non-responsive window, sometimes it crashes completely. A strange occurrence is that after a crash, the popup doesn't close and instead stays stuck, making it hard to end the task via Task Manager. It usually works with other programs like Chrome, but I need to log out to resolve the problem.
Specs:
- 2x 8Gb 2400MHz DDR4 RAM
- 16GB 2666MHz 1GHz DDR4 RAM
- Intel i7-1060 3Gb CPU
- Gigabyte motherboard (I'm trying to find the model)
- 2x 1TB HDD
- 250GB SSD with Windows installed
I built this PC a few years ago and upgraded it with additional RAM, a new processor, and an SSD. I have Windows on my SSD but Steam and most games are on my HDDs.
There has been a slight decrease in performance when opening programs lately.