Thanks for the useful suggestions!
Now, my problem is, that while gaming (doesn't matter which in-game situation) it suddenly stops playing the background music, (every other sound keeps on playing) but nearly all textures on the map and inventory go black. And as soon as I try to interact with someone, the game freezes for a few seconds, with noises (of branches and stuff) still going on, until it starts running again like nothing ever happened.
Do you please have some sort of idea what the problem could be?
I'm running on:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
i5 3570 stock
ASUS GTX 970 OC Strix (with the stock "oc" it's being delivered)
16GB RAM
the PSU and everything works just fine, because I've only encountered this particular problem while playing Witcher. And the temperatures of all my PC parts are more than fine...
I have updated the BIOS, graphics, sound (onboard) and Microsoft Visual whatever driver.
You're response would be VERY appreciated!
That sounds like it could be 2 things, the first one being you are getting severe audio lag in which case I would suggest uninstalling your audio drivers, downloading the latest available (if you own a Xonar use uni xonar drivers not the shat asus ones), always remembering to get the drivers direct from the manufacturer, eg; if you have a asus mainboard with realtek audio go to the realtek website to get the latest HD audio drivers or alternatively visit guru3d their servers are often much faster for downloading. The second thing that comes to mind is HDD fragmentation, download and use diskeeper for its trial period its by far the best HDD defragging tool out there, the best free HDD defragging tool I know of is Defraggler.
Lastly, you may have a shit ton of unnecessary applications in the background running eating a lot of CPU cycles or a lot of malicious software but we will save tackling those for phase 3 if need be.
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