So the other day I opened my PC to take a look at my processor and motherboard, i disconnected everything before opening it and whatnot. I ended up swapping out my processor with a spare one I had lying around, an AMD Phenom 9450 I think, and made sure everything was connected right and secured, then updated the drivers and made sure everything installed correctly. But when I went to start a game, the PC just froze. No BSoD, no error messages, no nothing. So I swapped out the processors and put my old one back in, did the same thing, updated the drivers and made sure everything was how it was when I opened it. No dice, my PC still crashes when starting any game. Any help on why this may be happening or how to possibly fix this? I can do anything for forever, watch movies, surf the net, listen to music, but not play games.

 

PC Specs:

Quad-core AMD Phenom 9600 @ 2.81 GHz

ATi Radeon 6750 HD Graphics card

4GB RAM

650GB Western Digital HDD

 

I know they aren't the best specs but they run GTA decently, but not anymore.

 

Thanks!

 

You updated every driver? Especially video card?

 

You can always look around tomshardware.com for a solution.

Updated every driver both times, I can play Spec Ops: The Line on the highest setting possible and run a steady 70 FPS with no lag at all, but that's the only game I can play.