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Question

What is wrong with my PC?! Please Help.

by Mar 27, 2019 7:47PM PDT

Basically, it recently started to crash most games that I play on my PC. Most if not all of my games should run great on ULTRA settings however after playing a bit, it completely crashes games like; Rainbow 6, Middle Earth; Shadow of War, Ghost Recon Wildlands.
I tried to put in on medium settings and it continues to crash...

All I noticed is that in the Task Manager when I open a game before it crushes the graph for "3D" in the GPU section spikes to 100% and my games completely freeze/crash, I have no clue how to fix it, I tried overclocking and my monitor freaked out-

Please Help me...

System:
Windows 10
i5-8600k CPU 3.60GHz
32.0 GB Ram
64 bit Operating System
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Aorus)

I dont know what more information do you guys need but, I'm desperate...

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Update NVIDIA Drivers
by Mar 27, 2019 8:02PM PDT
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by ImLostSendHelp Mar 28, 2019 3:24AM PDT

Yeah, it is all up to date and it still won't work Sad
Even if I overclock my graphics card still everything crashes after like 5 - 10 minutes of playing.

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Time to get PC detail and reports.
by Forum moderator Mar 28, 2019 10:50AM PDT

Let's start by collecting a little more about this PC.

1. You wrote it recently started to crash. Any recent changes?

2. What make, model PSU is in there? I will instantly pan split rail PSUs here for self built PCs. Why? Most can't balance the rails and it may work for a time then get wonky. Hard for new techs to sort out.

3. Let's get two reports.
a. Web Speccy. Read how at https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web
b. Userbenchmark.com will end with a link to share. These reports and the PSU make/model can often reveal where issues may be.

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You can:
by Mar 30, 2019 2:27AM PDT

Hi, ImLostSendHelp
Try to rollback the Nvidia drivers to the time when games and system files were not having any issue. If it doesn't work, let me know.
Hope for the best.

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