My laptop freezes a lot when playing games. It used to freeze when I had programs like chrome and skype up at the same time, but after doing a fresh reboot on the laptop, that problem went away. However the game freezing still persists. It'd freeze when I play Minecraft, sometimes freezing within 10 minutes. Games like Aion and such do not produce the same problem, I can play hours without a problem. It isn't a heating problem cause sometimes when I open Minecraft, the whole laptop would freeze within 20 minutes of playing.
My laptop is an ASUS, model K501UW Signature Edition running on windows 10 Home.
The specs are:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7- 6500 CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.59 GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
For clarification, when the freezing happens, everything stops, even calls. It won't do anything unless I forcefully shut it down. I've tried lowering the RAM usage of Minecraft but the problem still persists.