Every game I play crashes for no reason?

[whitty1001]

Hello so as the title suggests my game crashes whenever I play any game for like 2 minutes. Some games don't even start up? When they crash the game freezes and im forced to start task manager and end the process to get back to the desktop my computer does NOT bluescreen. The weird thing is my computer runs like its brand new when not playing games. I can run many livestreams and render videos very quickly its just the games which crash!

(Specs not included in profile) Corsair TX 650w PSU, Arctic cooling freezer for processor.

Here are some of the solutions I have tried so far to get my games to work again:
- Reset to factory settings
- Malware scan
- Virus scan
- Registry clean
- Stress test on hardware
- MEMTEST86
- clean out inside pc
- Validating game cache on steam (Its not just steam games that crash, its all games)
- Defragmented my HDD and SSD
- Removed any overclocks

 

[BluSky]

This is going to sound weird but my previous computer had a very similar problem to this. Every game I ran crashed out quickly - some made it to the game, others crashed by the title screen. It only happened when I had Vsync Off though. If I turned Vsync on everything worked as expected. I never did find the real / root cause of the issue, it remains a mystery to this day.

Try turning Vsync on (or forcing it through the graphics control panel where necessary) and see if that helps. It would be really interesting to find someone else with the same problem (though i find it unlikely that this will be the case )

 

[snips86x]

Are you running SLI?