Graphic card frame freezes on certain games

[xbluewater]

While playing League of Legends or Smite i've been getting some frame freezes every 3-5 minutes. If I open Diablo, or any other game I don't have any of these problems though.

I never had this problem before, and this has just come up after i reformatted my computer to get my OS on my SSD and have my HDD only for storage. I've put high power in the power settings. I've also put force voltage in MSI Afterburner settings.

Intel i5-3570k running at 3.4GHz
Windows 7 64bit
R7850 MSI power edition

If need be i can upload my temps with HWMonitor.

Thanks!

 

[Mellon Head]

Upload your temps. but take your temps while you are gaming with the games that freeze, preferably after it freezes.

 

[xbluewater]

Here are my temps. Idol, gameplay, and just after the freeze

 

[Mellon Head]

I just noticed that you're putting force voltage into the GPU. Are you overclocking the card?

 

[xbluewater]

No i put that on in hopes that it would fix it but if you want i can turn it off.

 

[Mellon Head]

Probably a good idea to have it off unless you have a real good reason for turning it on. It's an extra variable in the mix while we're trying to solve a problem. It might confuse the issue.

 

[xbluewater]

Ok good to know thanks! i turned it off yesterday. Just let me know what you need me to do.

 

[Mellon Head]

Can you run a GPU stress test using Afterburner? You might have to use MSI Kombustor to do it. I can't remember which one can do a stress test, but you should try to do one on the GPU to rule out any problems with it.

Also, which version of driver are you using with your video card?

 

[xbluewater]

ok ill run that tomorrow night when i get back from work!

Thanks once again

 

[xbluewater]

I ran the X-Score and got this

 

[Mellon Head]

So if you had no freezing during the Kombustor test, I think we can tentatively rule out the graphics card. The good news is that the card isn't overheating.

I'm not familiar with League of Legends, or Smite, are they online games?

Also, I noticed that Kombustor said that you have no service pack installed in your Win 7 installation. Did you not install service pack 1? Or is this just an error on Kombustor's part?

 

[xbluewater]

Yes they are online games. I have windows 8 on my pc. I have my os on my ssd, and I have a 2tb hdd for storage.

 

[Mellon Head]

Hmmm. It might be a network issue causing the lockups.

I'm a bit out of my element on Windows 8. You might want to try asking this question in the Windows 8 forums:

Windows 8 Forums

 

[xbluewater]

i was thinking maybe if its not my graphics card it could be my windows8 having trouble communicating with my hdd?