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I recently decided to give my PC a bit of an upgrade. I just dropped in a new Intel Core i7-4770K on a fresh MSI AM3+ Motherboard. My graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti with 1 GB of VRAM that’s about two years old now. I'm running an older EVGA 450 W power supply, and I just added 8 GB of RAM to the mix.
I'm running into this frustrating issue where my PC just completely freezes up while I'm playing games—specifically Madden NFL 16. It’s incredibly inconsistent, too. Sometimes it happens after only ten minutes of play, and other times I’ll get a solid hour in before it hits. There is absolutely no way to predict when it's going to strike. Whenever it happens, I hear the fans kick into high gear, the gameplay stutters, and then everything just locks up. Occasionally, the audio keeps playing as if nothing happened, making it feel like the game is still running even though the image on my screen is totally frozen. At that point, my only option is to hit Command-Option-Escape and jump straight into the Activity Monitor.
I’ve gone through every possible troubleshooting step in the book. I've installed every single driver available for the graphics card, updated all the motherboard drivers, and even did a clean reinstall of macOS. Honestly, I feel like I’ve tried everything under the sun, yet I still haven't cracked this problem. To make matters worse, the system has crashed on me a few times—the screen just goes completely blank out of nowhere, it starts running a memory scan, and then the whole thing just restarts itself.
I ran a scan on the hard drive, and everything looks clean—no errors found.
Is this a GPU driver issue, or am I looking at a faulty motherboard, bad RAM, or maybe even a struggling power supply?
I'm running into this frustrating issue where my PC just completely freezes up while I'm playing games—specifically Madden NFL 16. It’s incredibly inconsistent, too. Sometimes it happens after only ten minutes of play, and other times I’ll get a solid hour in before it hits. There is absolutely no way to predict when it's going to strike. Whenever it happens, I hear the fans kick into high gear, the gameplay stutters, and then everything just locks up. Occasionally, the audio keeps playing as if nothing happened, making it feel like the game is still running even though the image on my screen is totally frozen. At that point, my only option is to hit Command-Option-Escape and jump straight into the Activity Monitor.
I’ve gone through every possible troubleshooting step in the book. I've installed every single driver available for the graphics card, updated all the motherboard drivers, and even did a clean reinstall of macOS. Honestly, I feel like I’ve tried everything under the sun, yet I still haven't cracked this problem. To make matters worse, the system has crashed on me a few times—the screen just goes completely blank out of nowhere, it starts running a memory scan, and then the whole thing just restarts itself.
I ran a scan on the hard drive, and everything looks clean—no errors found.
Is this a GPU driver issue, or am I looking at a faulty motherboard, bad RAM, or maybe even a struggling power supply?
