All of my games are crashing

[Dog]

Not on startup, but several minutes into the game, on the regular, multiple times per session, sometimes it boots me back to the main menu, sometimes its requires me to restart my pc. Cant alt+tab out, cant clt+alt+delete. Ive noticed that if i have spotify open and playing music spotify will stop too. I dont recall any big changes to my pc that would create these issues. This stuff started yesterday, but before yesterday it was all running just fine.

[mimizukari]

you're overtaxing your computer. you need more RAM. you might also have a virus that's using a ton of ram hidden on your comp.

[Dog]

Originally posted by Yuiko:

you're overtaxing your computer. you need more RAM. you might also have a virus that's using a ton of ram hidden on your comp.

How can it be RAM when i could run all these games just fine, with spotify, discord and firefox all opened just earlier this week?

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Two-Gun Dog:

Ive noticed that if i have spotify open and playing music spotify will stop too.

Then it does not sound like an issue specific to Steam. The helpful Yuiko above, could be correct.

Have you scanned your PC lately ? Malwarebytes in safe mode, is a good start.

[Dog]

Nothing came up :/

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Two-Gun Dog:

Nothing came up :/

This does not give much detail as to what exactly you did, and how exactly you did it, please.

It might not be an infection. From what you have posted so far, it sounds like the system is freezing up.

If it is locking up and is requiring you to restart your PC, that sounds like a hardware issue or infection, possibly.

Have you checked the hard drive for any errors ?

Use Windows to check the drive's health. Scan for and fix issues, where possible.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/guide-to-using-check-disk-in-windows-vista/

[Hannibal]

When's the last time you cleaned your pc of dust? Sounds like its overheating

[Dog]

Originally posted by ~ 🔱 Jim 🔱 ~:

When's the last time you cleaned your pc of dust? Sounds like its overheating

Earlier this month, i have some normal temps on hardware monitor too

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Two-Gun Dog:

Nothing came up :/

This does not give much detail as to what exactly you did, and how exactly you did it, please.

It might not be an infection. From what you have posted so far, it sounds like the system is freezing up.

If it is locking up and is requiring you to restart your PC, that sounds like a hardware issue or infection, possibly.

Have you checked the hard drive for any errors ?

Use Windows to check the drive's health. Scan for and fix issues, where possible.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/guide-to-using-check-disk-in-windows-vista/

Yea so i ran a scan with malwarebytes and it couldnt find any sort of virus or anything

Did run chkdsk [drive that contains my steam install and library] /r

[Dog]

so some games, its a crash that requires a restart, some its a freeze then the game continues (only to freeze again later on), some (depth particularly) upon joining a match, it freezes (displays the windows 7 busy cursor icon) then disconnects me back to the main menu. I'll try uninstalling everything, uninstalling steam and reinstalling it all again tomorrow after I wake up.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Two-Gun Dog:

Yea so i ran a scan with malwarebytes and it couldnt find any sort of virus or anything

Did run chkdsk [drive that contains my steam install and library] /r

But apparently, you did not use safe mode to scan in, from this above.

You should really use safe mode when actually looking for infections and with Malwarebytes.

I assume the hard drive did not report errors then.

So apparenlty you have Windows 7. Are all device drivers up to date on that ? Post the exact computer you have, model and model number. If custom built, post the exact motherboard.

Go to Help in the top of Steam. Select "system information", right click and "select all" then "copy" and "paste" all that here, please. Let's see the specs on your PC, as that will show.

[Poppi !!]

How about posting your specs ? Otherwise everyones just guessing. Any error messages and/or notifications when they lock up ?

[Dog]

Booting into aafemode and running chkdsk on the c: drive seemed to have fixed it

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Two-Gun Dog:

Booting into aafemode and running chkdsk on the c: drive seemed to have fixed it

You may want to keep a close eye on that drive and backup any important data. If the drive is failing or on it's early stages of failing, you will want to make sure you keep important data.

Thanks for the reply as to what you did to fix it. That may help others.

[Dog]

Whelp, it appears to be starting again.

[WorkingLikeADog]

System Restore to a point back in time when it was working.

[Dog]

Ill try that when i get a chance