Everything works, but games freeze on startup?

Associate
Joined
6 Jun 2006
Posts
132
Just recently, windows works fine (including firefox) and I can do anything, other than open games.

It looks normal, then freezes before the game's even started. A black box comes up (the size of the window... i have my games at a lower res) and then a windows error occurs.

dwwin.exe uses about the same amount of mem usage as the game, but that's just the windows error

i've refreshed the ram, done a system restart, rebooted the pc numerous times, and not uninstalled any drivers or anything

another point, since it started ****** up, the beep that the pc makes on start up sounds and i get horizontal scanlines on my monitor, which i think is from the tv being right next to it?

also, my sister was messing around at the back of the pc and it sounded constantly for like 5 seconds

like i said, everything works apart from games, so i doubt its a serious hardware malfunction.
 
Last edited:
Go download something like ATItool and set it to scan for artifacts, just to check your GPU isn't the issue.
Remove drivers with driver cleaner, reinstall.
Reinstall DirectX if necessary.
 
Back
Top Bottom