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I booted up Star Wars Squadrons for the first time on Friday and my PC froze after about five minutes. I rebooted and tried again, and this time it froze much quicker, so I checked Nvidia and installed the new drivers but didn't bother trying Squadrons again.
Cut to Saturday and my PC freezes again after five minutes of playing PES 2021. This time when I rebooted, there was a red VGA light on my motherboard that went away after a few seconds. I tried PES again but it froze a second time and gave me the red light on startup again. I left it for an hour or so and tried PES again, and this time I was able to play for two hours and exit the application without it ever freezing. I haven't played any more games since, but I tried PES again today and it froze again after about three minutes with the VGA light appearing upon bootup.
I'm guessing this is a problem with my GPU? I have a 2060 and haven't touched or moved my PC in a while. I installed a new PSU about a month ago, but this is the first time I've run into any problems. My PC has also been fine with everything else, it's just freezing whenever I play a game.
The funny thing is I did order a 3080 on "release day", so I probably wouldn't be having this problem if Nvidia actually manufactured any of the damn things! For this reason, I hope it's just my 2060 playing up because at least I'll be replacing it at some point this year, hopefully, maybe, probably not.
Any advice on what this could be and how I might possibly fix it?
Cut to Saturday and my PC freezes again after five minutes of playing PES 2021. This time when I rebooted, there was a red VGA light on my motherboard that went away after a few seconds. I tried PES again but it froze a second time and gave me the red light on startup again. I left it for an hour or so and tried PES again, and this time I was able to play for two hours and exit the application without it ever freezing. I haven't played any more games since, but I tried PES again today and it froze again after about three minutes with the VGA light appearing upon bootup.
I'm guessing this is a problem with my GPU? I have a 2060 and haven't touched or moved my PC in a while. I installed a new PSU about a month ago, but this is the first time I've run into any problems. My PC has also been fine with everything else, it's just freezing whenever I play a game.
The funny thing is I did order a 3080 on "release day", so I probably wouldn't be having this problem if Nvidia actually manufactured any of the damn things! For this reason, I hope it's just my 2060 playing up because at least I'll be replacing it at some point this year, hopefully, maybe, probably not.
Any advice on what this could be and how I might possibly fix it?