Application Hang

[CHAINofSTRENGTH]

Lately all of my games on Steam seem to be running into application hangs, like Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Fallout 3, and others I have played. The application hangs usually happen within the first 10 - 20 minutes. I don't know why this is happening and would hope that there are some recommendations that can be offered to fixed this issue. If it helps, I will copy and paste what I have from Event Viewer:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 5/13/2013 12:45:13 AM
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: N/A
Description:
The program Fallout3.exe version 1.7.0.3 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Problem Reports and Solutions control panel. Process ID: 1284 Start Time: 01ce4f8d5950dba0 Termination Time: 305
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Hang" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>101</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-05-13T04:45:13.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>53712</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>N/A</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Fallout3.exe</Data>
<Data>1.7.0.3</Data>
<Data>1284</Data>
<Data>01ce4f8d5950dba0</Data>
<Data>305</Data>
<Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

[Satoru]

Fallout3 will hang 'just because' so thats not really a good 'indicator' of anything....

But if you're getting it 10-20 minutes in it could be your CPU/GPU overheating. You may want to look at your temps

[CHAINofSTRENGTH]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Fallout3 will hang 'just because' so thats not really a good 'indicator' of anything....

But if you're getting it 10-20 minutes in it could be your CPU/GPU overheating. You may want to look at your temps

Thanks for the response. My GPU (GTX 560 Ti) temps when active usually run between 50C - 60C when active and my CPU (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700) usually run between 70C - 80C when active. This has even happened when playing Crysis 2 when it is not part of Steam or Origin, and BulletStorm which is on Origin. This has been something that has started happening only within the past couple weeks so I have been downloading malware and registry cleaner software to see if that works and so far it looks like no luck. A lot of forums I have been reading seem to go unresolved, even when uninstalling/reinstalling programs. I have downloaded new nVidia graphics card drivers and drivers for my motherboard just in case, which did not work either. I may try to do a Windows repair, but I am trying to avoid a clean OS install.