Computer Crashes with Every Game I Play

JAYCEE93

JAYCEE93

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I am having some real mind boggling problem with my computer that has been persistent in every game I play.
Every game I play will crash with a frozen screen/looping sound or alternately black screen or even redirected to the Desktop with the Error message,
'program has stopped working.'

The solutions I have tried include,
-Scanning the System for Viruses 'Norton'
-Updating all Drivers on every component.
-Re-installation of games/(on Steam)Verify integrity of game cache

If anyone has any further ideas on what it could be please respond ASAP!

Dxdiag;

-Windows 7 64-bit
-Intel Core i3-2120 3.3GHz
-8GB RAM
-nVidia GeForce GTX 460
-500W Lepa W-Series PSU

Many Thanks, John
 
First thing i would do is run memtest. Just to see if your RAM is working ok. Is anything overclocked?
 
Nothing is Oveclocked... On memtest what does it mean by coverage? Ive enetered 2GB in 3 windows and its at 4,000,000.0% coverage?
 
I would try and take the Ram out one at a time ( Take one out, Reboot, Test, Fit back in or take out another), Check each RAM stick in all of the Slots
 
Okey I will try that... but I have just been shown 11 problems by Windows. All say Video Hardware Error, but not to open incase it is a viral infection, Im not sure if you guys can make headway but the files listed are called;
WD-20120628-2239.dmp
sysdata.xml
WERInternalMetadata.xml
These are listed as files that help describe the problem.
 
do all the software tests first then
check all your bios settings as standard ( but write down what they are at present so u can allways get back to it or take pics on ur phone)

try the mem stick in all slots method, one at a time

disconect as many usb devices as you can get away with

check all your temps all the time ..

literally isolate as much as poss

do all your op sys updates

but if its only in games it maybe a gcard prob. any artifacts on screen etc ?

try forcing the gcard to run slow it may be something as simple a heat of fan speed on the g card

g card drivers newest are not alweays best check out guru3d

as a last resort buy new stuff but dont rush out and get new stuff till u are sure but psu stability problems catch most people out

tbh i just throwing ideas into the air incase u missed something u never know
 
Sweet Cheers thats good I shall try all these! Im pretty sure it is related to the graphics card/ PSU. I did get 11 Video hardware errors from windows yesterday which has never come up before! What would you consider a maximum stable temperature for a graphics card to be working at? My room is pretty hot just now with all this weird weather!
 
JAYCEE93 said:
@trickynickyuk
Motherboard - Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67
Ok How much Power do you recon would do it or should I just get a lot higher?

@Steveocee Would that still be able to run my games?
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Should be able to start them and get into them on lowest settings but would be an indicator that it was the gfx card.
 
I Get a similar thing, where my game freezes and sound loops and then i get put back to desktop or the game carries on untill it happens again (could be minutes apart or 30 seconds) . The only fix i have found is to underclock my graphics card and this fixes the problem for me.
 
Rebel=UK= said:
I Get a similar thing, where my game freezes and sound loops and then i get put back to desktop or the game carries on untill it happens again (could be minutes apart or 30 seconds) . The only fix i have found is to underclock my graphics card and this fixes the problem for me.
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drivers or air flow ...... reseat your g card maybe one of those..

g cards run notoriously hot normally u can monitor it with things like gpu temp .. and others


is the fan working on the g card ?


have you changed the fan speeds in settings in the drivers try setting the fan speed to max and u will hear it when it speeds up, you havent set it to loke 20% by mistake have u ?


try diferent drivers


games push pc`s normally a lot more than anything else so again try and narrow it dowm by doin things in stages...


itshard to explain unless u can see it your self but imagine working from a base to a max and find where its going wrong that may help you to isolate the problem


i know it sounds a bit airy fairy but unless someone is sitting there lookin at it its hard to tell tbh

think of everything as stupid as it may seem even like is the power lead to my gcard in properly...


last half of that was aimed at Op btw but yer all relevent i guess
 
There is no way the PSU isn't powerful enough to power the graphics card, the PSU is also a quality unit (Lepa is the EU version or sister company of Enermax as far as I'm aware?). If there is a problem powering it, then it's because it's faulty not because the PSU make/model is bad.

I had this sound loop crash problem with an old 4870 1GB graphics card, and I could never find out why it would crash (normally in BF Bad Company 2)... I swapped power supplies from a 500w OCZ to my current one without any change. In the end I just got rid of it and upgraded to a GTX 460 and the problem vanished. I would say the card is probably faulty. I have heard of this sound loop problem being related to Realtek drivers though.
 
I had a smiliar problem with an old X1800XT after something fried inside the Antec PSU. It only happened in graphics intense games, the screen went black and the driver reset the card. Or the game just crashed.
 
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