Hello fellow GB community, I'm hoping you can help clear this one up.
This has started to happen suddenly - Games would lock up for a few seconds after a short while of play. Once it starts it will keep doing this at random, but still frequently. Some games are acting like this, others would not lock up entirely but would cut off audio instead while the game will keep running. For instance, GTA 5 and Genshin Impact would lock up, but Destiny 2 and Pillars of Eternity 2 would cut off the audio.
This seems to be happening only in Games, I have not experienced anything like this during other uses. I'm not sure what would cause this suddenly, there was really no special update to the PC recently including any driver changes. I tried to do a System Restore, though I remembered kind of late and I had a restore point back to a couple of days before - which should be on the cusp of this issue starting, so it's kind of a 50/50.
I also tried moving games between my various drives (SSD/HDD/M2) thinking that it might be a storage issue, but no change.
I monitored my temps of my CPU and GPU and could not see anything unusual during these lock ups. GPU would not go over 70c, while the CPU would max out at about 73c which is normal for me.
I know that these kind of things can be a result of a wide variety factors, but would love a nudge in different directions so that I could troubleshoot this thing.
My PC:
Windows 10 64bit 1909
Ryzen 9 3900X
32GB Ram
RTX 2070
650W PSU
Thanks in advance!
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