Windows 10: Software crashing when using heavy apps

Hello everyone, I would like to show you what I've been going through these past few hours, of which I have no idea what's going on, or why, but I have some hypothesis.

The exact thing that happens is the next:

I have these things open

I open a heavy game (GTA V, Warzone, Battlefield, ETC.)
I open discord along the game, to talk with friends.
In most cases (I got a 2nd monitor) I have Opera GX Broswer with maybe 2/3 tabs

Basically as the game is loading, or maybe I can be in the lobby, but when joining a game, the apps will start closing and giving errors, I don't have any screenshots as when the errors occur I basically have to close everything manually or even restart the computer.

My specs

i5 8400 Processor
8gb 2400MHz RAM
GTX 1050ti 4gb VRAM Graphics Card
120gb SSD (Windows installed here)
1TB HDD (For everything else)

What I think caused it

I think the root of the current state of my computer is that I tried to create a dual boot with Linux-Ubuntu, to do this, I basically created another partition of 80GB, where I wanted to install this. Installed the ubuntu thing, but came up with an error, I had been trying to install Linux on a side for like 3 straight hours, so basically I said, f*ck it, I'll do it tomorrow.

The partition was GPT (I think that's default) But I had to change something that said EXF4 (Between the other options was NTFS), so I'm guessing the HDD was basically GPT along with NTFS, and then a small part of it was GPT but with EXF4, so that's something I supposedly needed to make Ubuntu work.

When I went back to Windows 10, I encountered this issue where I wanted to play SMITE, a game that doesn't require much, along with Discord, I would crash already just with these two. I thought it had something to do with ubuntu, so I decided to go to "Disk Management" Where I was able to see my HDD that had 850GB total, and the partition of it that was only 80GB that had Ubuntu, what I did was basically delete the whole thing, but I couldn't use that free space, I couldn't include it back on my HDD, so I decided to download a third party software to do this. "minitool partition wizard". Which did it in a second, but the problem persisted.

What things have I tried

Besides what I mentioned here:

I thought it had something to do with ubuntu, so I decided to go to "Disk Management" Where I was able to see my HDD that had 850GB total, and the partition of it that was only 80GB that had Ubuntu, what I did was basically delete the whole thing, but I couldn't use that free space, I couldn't include it back on my HDD, so I decided to download a third party software to do this. "minitool partition wizard". Which did it in a second, but the problem persisted.
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First thing I thought it was, was Ram issues:

It's been so long and so many hours, that I don't even remember WHY I thought it could've been the RAM, but basically I think it's because of this:

https://preview.redd.it/j2q7ekma4pq...bp&s=fa01e513a313ebb22d31d55543ca4630aa3de5de

As you can see, it shows that I'm supposedly using a 50% of my RAM

What I AM only using



https://preview.redd.it/lp985f5g4pq...bp&s=52fe8e23ec3dbb6fd7a5da82bff0c5c8232141a8

So basically, there's 1.2GB of RAM that are being used, without me really knowing what it is.

Because of these reasons, I thought that my computer for some weird reason was using a huge amount of RAM, and so if I wanted to play some games, it could basically just crash, as it'd need to use more RAM along the huge amount that it's already using.

First thing that I did to try and fix this, was restart the computer, as soon as it opens, 1.2GB / 1.5GB of ram already being used.

Second thing, analyse for viruses. Nothing (More than KMSAuto.)

Third thing, Page Filing, I disabled it, changed how much did I want it to use to the bare minimum, to the recommended, to whatever I thought it should may use, but didn't change at all, same problem.

Fourth thing, started asking friends, how much do they have of RAM usage as soon as they start it.
They all said 15 to 20% of their RAM is being used all the time, even though I have nothing being executed.

Basically at this point I said, this is normal, so the problem isn't the RAM anymore.

Installed Windows 10 From "Scratch"

Usual thing, decided to install from "scratch", but I only deleted everything from my SSD and installed windows, the HDD files weren't deleted. Had too many files to save so I decided not to do it, unless fully necessary (which might end up going for in a few hours).

My newest hypothesis

My last breath, my last piece of "hope", is centered on my HDD, I think maybe the Ubuntu thing or the EXT4 thing, basically messed it up;

Windows 10 wasn't allowing me to reunite that new partition to my old one, so I forced it with another software. Maybe it wasn't allowing me to, because it's one HDD, but two partitions, with two different formats, EXT4 and NTFS.

And that, basically either broke my HDD, making this a "buy another HDD" type of solution, or, I have to format it to scratch, which would be pretty good.

Things I'd like to clarify

This problem started after me trying to install another OS, so no, it's not that my specs are bad and can't run games along with as much apps as I want.
I used to have GTA V, Discord, Opera GX, with maybe Netflix or Youtube, or whatever it was, but could have up to 6, 7 tabs opened, with of course some FPS differences, but never this type of errors.

This feels like a challenge so let's see what you guys can offer. Thanks in advance to all, and good day!

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