Windows 10: How do I stop my computer crashing while playing games?

After about five minutes of playing a video game, my pc immediately turns off without warning. It seems to happen faster with more resource-heavy games, and happened after about 20 minutes watching a movie on Netflix. While in a game, the task manager shows that a lot of my memory is being used, even sitting in a single player lobby. It looks like I can't post a screenshot in here, I keep getting a message that says the files failed to upload, so hopefully this link works, but it says that the memory is at 7,9 out of 8 GB, consistently, which seemed high to me. I used MemTest86 to test my pc's

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Computer crashes while playing games

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Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand that how frustrating it can be when the PC crashes while playing games. I certainly appreciate your efforts taken towards resolving the issue.



For further clarity on the issue, please respond to the questions below.

1. Are you aware of any changes made to the PC?
   
2. What is the make and model of the PC?
   
3. What happens when you try to run a game?
   
4. Does the PC crashes only while playing games?
   
5. Do you receive any stop code or error message when the PC crashes?
   

Meanwhile, I would suggest you to refer the article
Troubleshoot blue screen errors



In addition, you can check if Windows is up to date. Refer the article
Keep your PC up to date and see if that helps.



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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.

 

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?