Games keep freezing

[bmw66]

Never had this in the past but all my games seem to freeze up after about 5 min of play

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Stick a small desk fan on your desk(or wherever) and point it right at your desktop's intake fans.
If that doesn't work then its not primarily a heat problem, unless its dust bunnies.
There are many many steps to tuning Windows... and they kept increasing every time there was a new version. Entire books have been written on it.
Basically disk check, ssds are best, full ram, decent fan airflow, wired internet connection through cable, (not satellite if you can avoid it)
Uninstall junk programs, turn off wifi if you're not using it. Examine and carefully set the programs that you see on services.msc...
The list is incredibly long as Windows is a complex beast, so firstly confirm your hardware is all straightened out. After that its all Windows tuning. (Also have you considered Mac or any variety of Linux?)

[bmw66]

Tried everything I read on the internet and still freezes....playing space engineers. I tried a total reinstall of steam and it STILL freezes the game about 5 min into it. If I open task manager it say im using 97% of the GPU.....my guess is thats bad?

My specs:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 5/11/2021, 18:46:41
Machine name: DESKTOP-M5DRK10
Machine Id: {78B1B7DB-5715-433A-BBF6-9D795F2C397D}
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19041) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: MS-7B94
BIOS: 1.20 (type: UEFI)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10940X CPU @ 3.30GHz (28 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32454MB RAM
Page File: 18425MB used, 18891MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.0.8
DxDiag Version: 10.00.19041.0928 64bit Unicode

[The Giving One]

Your page file seems pretty full, looking at those specs. Could you try increasing that in size and try again ? That might cause the lag you are seeing.

You have plenty of RAM, so that might not be it, but still it's strange to see your page file almost taken up.

EDIT......................................

If that seems to help the issue, I would then suggest you go to the official manufacturer's website for the motherboard or PC (prebuilt) and make sure you have all the latest official drivers installed and up to date.

You can't always trust Windows Update to do this correctly, if you use Windows to update your drivers.

Also, disabling needless background processes might help with your gaming, if you have them. Examples are here, as well as what can actually cause issues with Steam or games :

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

[bmw66]

I have been monitoring the task manager as I play and as the minutes go by the cpu usage goes up and then after 5 min its at 97% and the game locks up.

I will try to increase the page file....what is a good number? Im not really a good tech guy.

PS - my computer at work is worse than this one and it ran fine there