Windows 8.1 Keeps freezing any help?

Great posts guys!

I am still actively working on a fix and would like to update my situation. I was able to resolve some programs freezing when opened by troubleshooting compatibility and setting them back to w7.

However steam games cannot be brought back to w7 compatibility. I was having steam games freeze when opening and was able to resolve this by uninstalling the up-to-date AMD drivers for my 280x and letting microsoft install the drivers it liked. It goes against every fiber of my being to run old drivers that microsoft picked out but now my games launch perfectly everytime.

I have also been able to narrow down whats happening with my freezes. I am having my monitor not wake up when resuming from a power save mode, the pc itself never sleeps. I can remote into the machine when the monitor wont wake up and i can see the pc is still alive. Usually i have to hard reset but now i discovered that i can reseat the DVI-D from my ASUS VG236H monitor and it will come back to life without having to hard reset. I may not be of anymore use in this thread because my issue is now a bit different that i originally thought. I am going to swap in a 7970 right now and see if i can make some progress with my sleeping beauty monitor. It will take a week or two before i know if my issue has been fully resolved.

Two - no, three - things you can try:

1. Find the executable file for the game(s) you are running and right-click on it.  Select the Compatibility tab.  Set the compatibility mode to Windows 7.   Then try again.

2)  In the worst case, uninstall W8.1P, and install Windows 7 instead.  Your games were probably written for Windows 7, not 8.1.  Certainly W8.1 can yield a slight increase in performance over W7, but it's usually only around 5%, not worth having if the alternative is freezes and crashes.  There will probably be further improvements (patches) coming out for W8.1 which will solve some of these problems, but it will take time.

3. Have you turned off the appalling Fast Boot?  It's just hibernation by another name, it even uses the hibernation file.  It has caused me all sorts of problems even with clients' brand new machines, and as it is effectively worthless unless you have a real obsession with boot time, one of the first actions I take is to get rid of it.  You can disable it through Control Panel | Power Options | System Settings (just choose, say, "Choose what the power buttons do" on the left) | "Change settings that are currently unavailable".  Then do yourself and your SSD a favour and get rid of hiberfile.sys.  Open an admin command prompt, and type powercfg /H.  That will give you back potentially a serious amount of SSD memory.  hiberfile.sys should disappear from C:\ after that command is executed; check in File Manager with View Hidden Files enabled.

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone can help and when you hear my specs you will tell me I am dumb. I always wanted to have this computer and was finally able to purchase through newegg.com. Anyways,  I  have:

CPU:                  AMD FX-9590 8core 

CPU  Cooler:     Cooler Master Nepton 280L <liquid, case someone doesn't know>

Thermal:           Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G

Mobo:               ASUS Crosshair Formula-Z  

Memory:           G.Skill 32GB 2400hz F3-2400C11Q-32GXM

Video Card:       2-EVGA GTX 780ti SC

Sound Card:      Creative Sound Blaster ZxR

SSD:                  SAMSUNG Pro 256GB 

HDD:                 Seagate 4TB Hybrid 

Monitor:            ASUS 27" 144hz 1ms GTG 3D 

3D Glasses:        Nvidia 3D kit

Keyboard:          Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E.7 

Mouse:              Logitech G700s mouse

Case:                 AZZA 9000 white <LED wiring melted on  case and doesn't work>

Power Supply:  2-CORSAIR AXi series AX860i 860W Digital ATX12V / EPS12V SLI CrossFire 80 PLUS

                         PLATINUM Certified Full Modular

P.S. Adapter:    Add2PSU-Delay Multiple Power Supply Adapter w/ Adjustable Delay

OS:                   Windows 8.1 Pro

All my drivers are up to date and I tried using 337.88 and 331.82 to correct the freezing. I ran 3D Mark and the Memtest86 or whatever its called and no errors. Yet when I play games after awhile my computer freezes no BSOD or anything I have to reset and the computer goes back to normal. I can watch Netflix, HBOGO or any internet and nothing it works fine. Games just lock up also if I pause the game for a few. Sometimes I get a few hours playing or half hour and I think its the same for pausing if not almost immediate. I am at a loss and hope someone can give me the answer. Thanks in advance for the help. This is my 10th build and never had problems till now that I spend more money then I should have. lol.