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Boggin:
It could very well be a compatibility problem with Win 10 because my first thought was your graphics drivers, but because you said the computer was still responsive even when the game freezes and not knowing you had upgraded, I discarded that.

Problems had been reported with Nvidia and Win 10 but MS had issued an update that was supposed to have fixed that, but because quite often Nvidia graphics are OEM modified, I couldn't see how that update could have been a one size fits all.

I've had to revert to Win 7 from Win 10 because of problems which may have stemmed from a slight graphics compatibility problem and rolling back may be your best bet to see if that resolves the problems.

Boggin:
Just a thought - using IE in Win 10 can you play any YT videos ?

Try any of these https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrEnWoR732-BHrPp_Pm8_VleD68f9s14-

layne81:
I am away from my home PC right now but I will definitely give it a shot once I am home.

I am going to run some test on the memory tonight.

layne81:
I kinda want to stick with windows 10 because I know I will eventually end up here...

How big of a pain was it to revert back?

Boggin:
From what I've seen on other forums it seems painless when done from within Win 10 which you can only do for 30 days and then that path is destroyed.

It was a lot more painful for me because as I had no intention initially to revert, I used Disk Cleanup to  remove the Windows.old folder and because Win 10 blocked other methods, I ended up factory resetting with Recovery disks and then restored with the system image I'd created before upgrading.

If the YT videos don't play or not very well, that would point to a problem with the Nvidia graphics.

There is a means of getting into Safe Mode from within Win 10 but I don't know if you can get it with Networking.

Do not use msconfig as I did because you don't get Networking with Safe Mode when done like that and for me, when I tried to go back into msconfig to change back to a normal boot - nothing came up when I typed msconfig and I had to use the Cmd Prompt (Admin) to enter c:\Windows\System32\msconfig.exe to get back.

If the YT videos or your games work okay in Safe Mode with Networking using the on board VGA, then that would be a clincher.

If the YT videos don't play in normal mode, go into IE - Tools - Internet options and under the Advanced tab check the box for the first item which is Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering.

I think it requires a reboot to effect and then retry the YTs.

Do you have the games installed on your computer or do you have to access them via the 'net ?

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