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PC crashing, only whilst gaming
Hi all!
I've been having trouble running some games now for months. After about fifteen minutes or so (usually on more graphically intensive games, although this may be a coincidence) most of my games begin to hang. This usually presents itself in the same way, namely that the game will freeze then one by one the different sound channels will either stop or go into a very annoying loop (by sound channels I mean, for example, first the gunshots in a shooting game will freeze, then the ambient water sounds, then the music etc). After a minute the game will either start working again, or my PC will turn off and sometimes blue screen (always the same blue screen).
I had thought it was a problem with my Realtek onboard audio, after a bit of googling, but installing a creative soundblaster doesn't seem to have altered things (as far as I'm aware I've correctly installed it and disabled the Realtek stuff).
It's causing me an incredible amount of frustration, and I would love it if someone here could track down the problem. Details attached. :)