Laptop freezes when playing games

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.

phong 1 answer

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Cookie90skid 5 answers

Minecraft keeps crashing? - 4

Error Code-

Couldn't toggle fullscreen
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Failed to set display mode (-2).
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.nSwitchD… Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.switchDi…
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.switchDisplayMo…
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.setDisplayModeA…
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.setFullscreen(D…
at bib.r(SourceFile:1556)
at bib.aq(SourceFile:573)
at bib.a(SourceFile:404)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Sour…

Guest 1 answer