Do you think I'm being too dramatic?

[Anonymous]

I recently had a gaming pc built. I ordered all the parts, and had a computer ship put it together for me a couple of months ago. It's been running well until a couple of days ago. I was playing just cause 3. It started stuttering, and eventually froze. A couple seconds later it crashed to desktop with no message. I brought up event viewer, and it said "the device attached to your system is not functioning". I was using an Xbox controller and I thought maybe that was the problem, so I plugged it into another USB port. I played the game again for maybe 20 mins. It stuttered a little but didn't crash, although I don't think I ran it long enough. I then tried just cause 2. It stuttered a little, but didn't crash. Probably only played that for 20 mins too. Also played fallout new vegas. It stuttered a little bit after I loaded a game, but played well otherwise. I asked on a pc page on Facebook what the problem may be, and people were saying it might be my graphics card, or my ram. Some people said to unplug my cpu and graphics card. I feel overwhelmed because I don't know how to do that. It could juts be so many things. I havnt played my pc for a couple days, because I don't want to deal with it, so I've just been playing my ps5.

[Oliverlogan263]

Dude, don't stress too much. Your PC randomly acting up a bit is annoying, but no need to panic yet. A couple crashes could just be a glitch, not a major issue.

Before jumping to conclusions, I'd give it some more testing. Play more demanding games for longer periods, see if it happens more. Stress testing is key.

And no way should you start messing with the CPU or GPU without proper research. That's advanced stuff that could damage things if done wrong.

For now just focus on basics - update drivers, run a virus scan, check temps aren't too high. Could also try an older graphics driver version if rolling back helps.

Don't forget, even brand new PCs can have weird sporadic bugs sometimes. It's not the end of the world until it's a consistent, reproducible problem.

Chill on the PS5 for now if it stresses you out less. But don't write off your rig yet either. I'm sure we can troubleshoot it together if the issues persist, bro. No big panic required!

[exitseven]

Play a different game using all the hardware. If it is okay it is the game. It it still crashes try playing it in a different controller. If it still crashes write down the memory address of where it crashed. Play it again and check the memory address when it crashed. If it is the same, the RAM is bad.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Anonymous]

Yes, it is just a childish game. Get over it.

[Asker]

Yes it's just a game, but I spent around 2k on the set up.

[dudeinohio]

Sounds like the graphics card is being overwhelmed.

[Asker]

Thats what overwhelms me. It's such an expensive part, and im not sure how to determine whether that's what the problem is