Computer Crashing and Restarting while playing oblivion

duncsharp · 3 May 2006 at 19:37

my current specs: amd 3700 san deigo
geil value ram 1gb
x1800xt 256mb
asus a8-n sli premium

im playing oblivion at a pretty modest resolution 1280x1024, bloom on and no anti anylising

i start playing and its ok, bit laggy then after a while the sound kind of dispears as though im switching the power off my headphones, the whole thing gets really laggy and then the computer just restarts

ive checked the tempreture for the processor and its 34c under load and the motherboard is around 45

as for the gfx card i think under load thats doing about 60/70c which i think is ok?

any ideas, not sure if its anything to do with my sound card or not? using oboard sound!

anyhelp would be great

thanks

duncan

duncsharp · 3 May 2006 at 19:55

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duncsharp · 3 May 2006 at 20:17

i tried running it at lower res and i still get the same problem!!!!

any ideas?

could it be something to do with the sound, cos i gradually totally lose audio when the game is under the most load

duncsharp · 3 May 2006 at 21:09

ill try the patch, deos that fix the problem - i also us the ac97 drivers, does the patch fix that??

duncsharp · 3 May 2006 at 23:56

my sound goes crazy after i've been playing over a reasonalbe period of time

also would that leaking memory problem cuase some of the promlems ive been having?

duncsharp · 4 May 2006 at 22:55

yea i think thats is exactly what has been happening:

2 things happen:

the game runs slower and slower and starts getting bad at fps intensive sections - then the computer just restarts

the sound fades out, the game gets really laggy, then when the sound just goes the game plays ok again

any ideas about a fix?

should i try a reinstall?

duncsharp · 5 May 2006 at 00:22

i'm using an Enermax Liberty 500w (that should be anough shouldnt it?)

also how do you enable that restart option?

im thinking that it could be tempreture isues - its not my cpu (under load only maxes at 35!)

my motherboard underload is getting near 45c under load - idle is about 34c

gfx card is brand new and idles around 50c and gets near 70c

if any of these are too high please let me know!!!!

Im going to try a format tomorrow and see if that does it!!
fingers crossed!