Windows 10: Computer is crashing on many games

I relatively recently built a new PC. It's three months old, and during that time, I've found that it will crash on some, but not all, games that I try to play. Sometimes the crash will simply be the game immediately shutting down on attempting to start, or shortly after starting. Sometimes the crashes will come in the middle of gameplay. In most cases, forcing the game to start in DirectX11 has fixed the issue of the game crashing on start; in some, it has not. In some cases in which the game crashes on start, it delivers a message about running out of video memory, asking me check my graphic

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all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

all games crash!

ive watch my temps and both the cpu and gpu are within normal ranges. when it freezes it simply freezes the image and stops the sound. i must reboot to get back to windows.

 

Computer crashes when trying to game

Hi Simon,

Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Community and we apologize for delay in response.

To assist you better, please provide few details.

1) Do you receive any error message, while game get crashed?

2) Is the issue confined to War games only?

This issue might occur, if graphics driver is not updated properly.

I would suggest you to update your graphics driver and check if it helps.

Follow the below steps:

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  Press Windows + R key on the keyboard.
  
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  Type devmgmt.msc and press enter.
  
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  Expand the Display adapter.
  
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  Right click on the driver and select Update driver software.
  

Hope it helps, reply to us with the status of your issue. We will be happy to assist you.