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12-08-2004, 05:58 AM
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Gaming problem
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but i figured my problem is probably to do with my sound or video card.
I have just installed Sid Meiers Pirates on my brand new pc, which has a spec. easily good enough to handle the game. However, the game, and the entire computer, keeps freezing after i have been playing for about 15 minutes. I'm using a Creative Soundblaster audigy pro soundcard and a ATI Radeon 9550 256mb graphics card. Any idea's why my computer is acting like this? |
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12-08-2004, 01:37 PM
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Have u installed the latest drivers for ur video card?
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12-08-2004, 11:46 PM
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Are you OCing?
What are the rest of your system specs? What is your O/S? What are you temps?
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12-09-2004, 08:27 AM
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just bought the pc so the drivers are all up to date (i have double-checked this). I'm running windows xp on a pentium 4 3.2ghz with 1gb RAM. I am not overclocking anything... and as for temperatures... i'm not sure. how do i find this out?
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12-09-2004, 08:46 AM
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What brand is the computer? Have you had this problem anywhere else? In any other games?
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12-09-2004, 12:08 PM
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It's a self-build, and I haven't experienced the problem elsewhere yet, but saying that, i haven't used any other games. I have used Reason (the music production software) a lot with no problem but that's about it. Tonight i'll install another game and see how it goes.
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12-09-2004, 02:13 PM
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12-13-2004, 05:26 AM
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I have installed hitman 2 and it encounters exactly the same problem, so there is definitely something wrong with my PC. I have tried playing with the soundcard disabled and it still crashes, so that rules that out. Temps are all fine. Do i assume my graphics card is faulty?
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12-13-2004, 06:57 AM
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Do you have sp2? It seems some 256mb graphics cards (especially ATi) tend to mess up in games with it.
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12-13-2004, 07:37 AM
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yeah I do... do you think it's worth removing it and seeing if that works?
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12-13-2004, 05:12 PM
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First go on the sites for the games and see if there a fix for sp2, I know that for Halo Pc and Custom Edition, all that was needed was an updated version of the strings.dll, but if there isn't a fix then try uninstalling it. If that doesn't fix it then just reinstall sp2.
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