My game freezes randomly

My game freezes randomly every time I play. Every time I start playing I get a little longer in the game.
when it freezes I can’t do anything and I need to restart my computer

It also happened to me in csgo, but when I opened it as an administrator it didn’t happen anymore. I have tried to run generation zero as an administrator but it did not work

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Specs?

Would be good to know, so i can have a better understanding of your situation,

We need your specs otherwise this is a useless bug report, sorry for being so direct.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2070
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor,
4050 Mhz,
6 Cores
12 Processors

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If the same thing is happening in CS:GO (regardless of whether administrator mode fixes it), I would suggest you have an issue with your computer and not the game itself. Be it hardware or drivers, if this happens in other games, then Gen Zero is likely not the issue.

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I made this pc a week after new year. private with a friend who is okey good at computer but he also doesn’t know what it can be

Maybe you have an idea what it might be?

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@pautos - By deduction, if you’re seeing this same issue in more than just Gen Zero, then it’s likely to be something with the hardware, OS or drivers rather than the game itself.

I don’t know how your system is configured in terms of clock speeds, etc. But I will share this story with you, as it may steer you in the right direction.

I have a new and similar build (Ryzen 2700x & RTX 2080) and haven’t had any issues running anything as of yet. The caveat here is that it took me a while of messing with clock settings in my BIOS to get to its limits of stability. I never had issues with it that I didn’t cause myself by pushing things too hard.

At stock speeds (default 100MHz clock and 38x multiplier for CPU and 2133 MHz for memory), it was rock solid. I ran it like this for about a week. I threw games, productivity, video export, benchmarks, etc at it and never had any stability issues.

After that, I started experimenting with overclocking to test how far I could push it and keep things stable. Through trial and error, I have my processor locked at 4.2 GHz which is the fastest it would go without crashing / freezing and RAM running at 2667 MHz.

The odd issue I encountered was my memory. Despite having 3200 MHz rated memory, the fastest I could get my RAM to run stable was 2667 MHz. If I went above that, it would hard lock my computer and require a hard reset, much like you’re describing. It would boot and run at 2933 (I think that’s the next step up from 2667), but would randomly freeze when I started putting a demanding load on it beyond “normal” use. And like you, it would be a hard system lock requiring full reset / reboot.

This last scenario sounds similar to what you’re encountering. I can’t say for sure, as I don’t know what your BIOS settings are or if your friend overclocked your system or not at setup. But it if is overclocked, I would try running it at stock speeds to see if the problem goes away. That would be a good first step in diagnosing your problem.

I hope this helps.

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You won’t get a better explanation :point_up_2:t3: than that which @Crunchmeister has said about overclocking , experience is experience , also you guys have prob already done this but just incase its not what it appears be , some thing is obviously maxing your pc , i solved most pc problems by recreating problem ( Starting bugged application ) And leaving the task manger window open and see what shows up , as we know windows defender and other anti virus some times can do crappy stuff to the best of pc’s , im playing on ps4 and have not had a tower since i picked up a console long time ago , so don’t fault me for talking stuff im being honest . Any how its blast of soon ps4 may break but its science while waiting on bug fix’s , The Crunch went out of his way to help out, beat Devs to it , give the guy a like :beer:

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When @pautos listed he was using a Ryzen, and home built by someone that was “a friend who is okey good at computers”, right away that raised a flag for me.

Ryzen processors are picky about their RAM when run above stock 2133 MHz. It’s pretty well known that you can get way better performance with Ryzen by overclocking RAM than overclocking the CPU because of the way AMD’s Infinity Frabric works. If you can OC both, then all the better, but RAM speed is king. And potentially his friend knew this and overclocked the memory.

Like I said, Ryzen is picky about its RAM and what will work at higher speeds than stock. Typically, that’s expensive memory with very tight timings. If you use lower cost RAM (which I unfortunately did), overclocking potential is lower, even though the RAM may be rated at higher speeds and would OC fine on an Intel system. In my case, my RAM is rated at 3200 MHz, but I can’t get anywhere near that without hard locking my system. I really should have paid the extra $150 for the better RAM kit (I have 32 GB), but I was pushing my budget already, so opted for cheaper memory.

Anyway, there’s no way of knowing what the case is here and why Gen Zero is crashing. But what I can say with pretty high level of certainty is that hard locking of the entire system requiring a hard reset isn’t typically software related. That’s typically something cause by either faulty hardware, overheating (sometimes), badly configured BIOS, or overclocking gone wrong.

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I would go with overclocking like you pointed out , if bios is messed with it would break no matter what normaly , overclocking breaks wen on high demand with games like Gzero which takes a bit more power than most games ( not sure why) , my ps4 pro gets noisy and hot while playing Gzero its given it some beans it is,i only mentioned T manger because sometimes we can all miss the simple stuff , thought id mention said stuff :rofl: any how mr was not trying to add to your reply you know your ‘’ bleep’’ i just unbrick consoles and solder what ever im told to ( me boss ) you are very technically Savvy and have experience , aye good job pal

I’ve been a programmer for almost 30 years (yeah, I’m an old dude). While I don’t typically deal with computer hardware much in a professional setting, it’s part of what I do at least indirectly. I’m also a gamer (#pcmasterrace) and have either built or spec’ed out almost all my own computers in the last 3 decades.

I don’t claim to be a hardware expert in any way, but I do know enough to be able to recognize symptoms and diagnose issues. And based on what pautos wrote, this is what I’m leaning towards. That said, I may be completely wrong too. Until pautos replies, we won’t know anything for sure.

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Just like yourself the older we get the more wiser people stand out , i could tell by reading your other post’s ( the kidda with dodgy net ) there was a perfect answer to his problem . My mate and his son have same problem , it was sorted by 1 wired 1 wireless , if every one wireless make seperate channels for each console lol until Devs fix multiplayer . _ you said same thing about wireless local side of net , anyhow you are wise Sir The Crunch #PcMasterrace , peace gota go and blow me mate ( work Boss ) UP for science , hes online yep time to not act my age for couple hours :sweat_smile:

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