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09-09-2009, 02:50 PM
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Constant freezing, usually in games
Not sure where to put this since I'm not sure where the root of the problem lies.
Somewhat older games like world at war sometimes bug out on me, either freezing the game (task manager lets me quit), or freezing my entire PC. Just installed Mass Effect and I can't play the game for more than like 10 mins before my screen goes black, or the audio goes into 'broken record mode' and the game freezes. Speedfan says my temps are ok (just cleaned out the inside of my machine several times too), I've scanned using super antispyware and there doesn't seem to be anything going on there, and I'm not sure how to check how up to date drivers or anything else is. I'm even running all my games at low settings and smaller than my native 1920x1200 resolution. Is this my video card? My processor? memory? How can I test all this? Please help! My specs: Asus P5B motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2GB DDR2-667 Corsair RAM eVGA 8800GTS 320MB Video Card and Windows XP sp2 |
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09-09-2009, 09:54 PM
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Tweak Monster
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test the ram...either that or maybe a driver issue...did you install all the latest drivers?
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09-10-2009, 12:37 PM
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Quote:
  Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!Where do I get the latest drivers and how do I know what version I have now? I tried updating my video card's drivers via display>settings>advanced>adapter>properties>update driver, but the wizard searches for like 20 mins and kind of crashes. Last edited by CleanChucks; 09-10-2009 at 12:40 PM. |
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09-10-2009, 02:04 PM
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The 'update driver' thing finally worked, but it gave me a warning about the driver not passing windows xp standards or something...created a restore point before installing just in case.
Now if I try to run Mass Effect it crashes and gives me this error:  I have absolutely no idea what it means... |
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09-10-2009, 02:48 PM
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Download memtest here.
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso Use either of these two free programs to write the iso file to disc. Then boot the pc with memtest and let it run for 4-5 hours. http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ http://imgburn.com/ Latest driver from EVGA http://www.evga.com/support/drivers/...t.asp?switch=2 |
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09-13-2009, 12:58 PM
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Thanks for the post Jim, the evga driver worked perfectly. I was messing with nvidia drivers which did absolutely nothing for me.
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09-15-2009, 10:20 AM
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Member (8 bit)
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Your very welcome Chuck.
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