As of recently, many games I used to play and could easily run all started crashing. They all crash within a minute, and these games include far cry 5, Honkai starrail, and Fortnite. I also used to be able to run hogwarts legacy, but now it won’t even start.
The reason why I’m thinking of reinstalling windows is because I’ve tried multiple online solutions, though to no avail. Im really lost on what to do, any help? Thanks
Specs (old but able to run those games at low/medium graphics) : i7-4790k Gtx 960 16 gigs of ddr3
I personally would. If you have everything of importance backed up, have the bandwidth to download your games at a decent speed and the time to set everything up there’s no harm in a full wipe and reinstall, especially if you have being using the PC a few years.
I don’t know what you tried but if you still want to tinker with it have you checked for BIOS, GPU, Motherboard updates, Nvidia Drivers, Running your GPU at stock settings and games at a low setting to see if they work and if it is an OC problem. Go through your BIOS setting or reset then back to default if you have made changes there before.
Check event viewer after a crash to see if you can get any information from logs on the crashes.
I’d be happy to help troubleshoot if you like but if you feel competent to do a full wipe and rebuild go for it.
I would try that. Try checking the system info tab in windows event viewer after a crash: Cause a crash to happen as it normally would and note the time. You can reference the time of the crash to find the event in windows event viewer. It will probably show an error with a red icon somewhere in the minute of the crash and when you click on it it may have helpful info.
I had the same type of issue recently and it seemed like a hardware problem from the blue screen codes. I tried everything I found online including a fresh install of windows. But when I looked at event viewer I found out some software(msi center) was changing the power plan for my gpu causing the crashes.