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Games crashing / Freezing after 2 minutes of play

SamG

SamG

SamG

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Hi,

When playing games ove the past moth they have been pausing for about a minute every now and then. When they unpause I end up on the other end of the map. For example WoW and now COD2 is doing it.

Now over the past week games have been hanging when I exit them. Then they either crash or I have to try and get into Window Task Manager and shut them down that way.

Now games are crashing after 2 minutes of play for example Doom 3 and COD2. They either crash to the desktop and I don't get a message or a message saying send microsoft report and thats it or crash to a blue screen saying windows has shutdown and then just reboot.

I'm running a 7800Gt at stock and it hits a max temp of 75c.

I've tried 3 different drivers and still the same problem.

Any ideas what is wrong?
 
Wont be to do with your graphics card, but tbh I don't know what else it could be. Check you have no other processes runnin gin the background as this could cause hanging and that your RAM and HDD is in order.

:edit: reading it again it sounds like a RAM problem. Is your ram in sync with your HTT? If so then it might benfit from being on a divider.
 
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I have no idea of what you just said :p

what is HTT and a divider?

I forgot to mention i'm also seeing sparklies / flashing colours on objects and sometimes lines that aren't meant to be there.
 
hmm sounds to me like the graphics card is playing up, try download 3dmark2003 from www.futuremark.com and then run the test, if there are any sparklies/flashing colours or even lines appearing onscreen i'd advise to try the card in another system before sending it back to where you bought it from.
 
Definitely sounds like a graphics card problem. Do you keep your PC on the floor? When was the last time you cleaned the intake filter and the inside of your case? I'd say your GFx card was overheating from fluff/dust in the heatsink, or that the fan has stopped working.

Then again, it could be the flakey nvidia drivers! :eek:
 
You dont happen to have the 'Extreme Edition' of XFX's 7800GT by any chane do you? These seem to have more problems than most... I regret that I bought one...
 
Thanks for the help everyone!

I ran error checking on my hard drive and no longer any problems, so far.

I didn't think the hard drive would cause the sparklies I was getting in games though.

Any way thanks again.
 
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