Games have started to freeze! HELP!

When I play any of my games, they always freeze after a couple mins of playing... My comp has always been fine and had no problems before. Could it be my HDD dying? I am running low on disc space (15gb) could that be the problem?

Specs

3x250gb hdd

AMD Phenom 9850 x4 2.6ghz

Nvidia 8800gts

4gb ram

Windows 7

BTW, it seems to freeze alot quicker on GTA4, freezes in like 30 secs of playing.

Thanks in advance

What virus protection do you use?

run a defrag and get more ram those are the two primary reasons for games locking up (if its not one.. its the other)

run a defrag and get more ram those are the two primary reasons for games locking up (if its not one.. its the other)

ionusX

try blowing the dust out of your CPU and GPU. helped me when games started freezing. my GPU just started overheating because of all the dust...groowagon

[QUOTE="groowagon"]try blowing the dust out of your CPU and GPU. helped me when games started freezing. my GPU just started overheating because of all the dust...FelipeInside

Ohhhhh sh*t...

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="groowagon"]try blowing the dust out of your CPU and GPU. helped me when games started freezing. my GPU just started overheating because of all the dust...SerbWarrior

Ohhhhh sh*t...

FeliXinside's Friendly Reminder !!! :)

[QUOTE="SerbWarrior"]

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"] Of course. You're supposed to clean a gaming PC every 6 months or so....FelipeInside

Ohhhhh sh*t...

FeliXinside's Friendly Reminder !!! :)

Nah,see,the way Teh Serb roles is,i never use an anti virus,i never preform maintanence on meh PC, and when the time comes, i just get mah Windows reinstalled ;)

I lose all meh pr0n,but sacrifices need to be made ;)

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

[QUOTE="SerbWarrior"]

Ohhhhh sh*t...

SerbWarrior

FeliXinside's Friendly Reminder !!! :)

Nah,see,the way Teh Serb roles is,i never use an anti virus,i never preform maintanence on meh PC, and when the time comes, i just get mah Windows reinstalled ;)

I lose all meh pr0n,but sacrifices need to be made ;)

[QUOTE="SerbWarrior"]

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

FeliXinside's Friendly Reminder !!! :)

FelipeInside

Nah,see,the way Teh Serb roles is,i never use an anti virus,i never preform maintanence on meh PC, and when the time comes, i just get mah Windows reinstalled ;)

I lose all meh pr0n,but sacrifices need to be made ;)

So do mine dude, but by the end, opening folders takes a good 10 seconds...hmmm...when i say it like that it really does sound bad :D

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="SerbWarrior"]

Nah,see,the way Teh Serb roles is,i never use an anti virus,i never preform maintanence on meh PC, and when the time comes, i just get mah Windows reinstalled ;)

I lose all meh pr0n,but sacrifices need to be made ;)

SerbWarrior

So do mine dude, but by the end, opening folders takes a good 10 seconds...hmmm...when i say it like that it really does sound bad :D

run a defrag and get more ram those are the two primary reasons for games locking up (if its not one.. its the other)

ionusX

Hmm.. I tried cleaning the comp and also have cleared up some space but still having the same problem (Havn't defragged yet.)

I just thought... the games that I am playing are: GTA 4, FALLOUT 3, BATMAN AA and DEAD RISING 2. They all use GFWL, could this be the cause?

run a defrag and get more ram those are the two primary reasons for games locking up (if its not one.. its the other)

ionusX

my guess would be overheating, since you state that GTA4, which is the most demanding out of your games, freezes much quicker than your other games. Just cleanout all the dust in your PC and you should be fine.

Ops, didnt see your other post. Well its possible that something in the background is interfearing, like anti-virus etc