Lag spikes and/or brief black/blue displays are common issues.
Lag spikes and/or brief black/blue displays are common issues.
In various games like Dota, WoW, and farming simulators, my computer occasionally freezes unexpectedly for about 15 seconds. Sometimes it just stops, other times I see a black or blue screen before it recovers. When I check the Task Manager, I notice a high GPU usage spike. With those system details, could my graphics card be failing?
Reviewing your performance metrics shows your memory usage peaked at 100% and averaged around 84% otherwise. It seems background programs are consuming a lot of resources.
Verify your virtual memory configurations. A certain program is generating excessive memory errors, indicating physical RAM is being exhausted and pages are being swapped to disk, which slows down the system. I've prepared a PowerShell script that monitors processes with high IO Read/Write (>10,000 bytes/sec) and large working set (>256MB), triggering when pages move faster than 50 per second. Copy this code into your PowerShell terminal and press Enter. To halt it, press CTRL+C. Run it in the background at startup and terminate it once the issue appears. You might identify the problematic process quickly.