PC Keeps Locking up on Game

tsux

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I play an old game called MU Online ( It's over 10 years old) and the hardware requirements are very low.
My new pc keeps locking up randomly when I player causing me to have switch the pc off by holding the power button for 5 seconds.

I dont know whats causing this? Can anyone help me

OS= Windows 7 Pro x64
CPU = Intel I5 2500 (no overclock)
Gfx = Asus AMD 6950 (No overclock or unlock)

The pc can easily play the game so it's not my hardware being to weak. I've tried over games (Crysis) and the system runs fine. Temps are fine during the game.
What can be causing this? It doesnt give me an error message or anything to indicate the cause. My screen just locks up and nothing can be done.
 
mathwat said:
I think the game is the problem might not work right with windows 7 x64..as it's an old game.
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Once again, no:(
I played the game on windows 7 x64 on a old laptop and many others also play the game using windows 7. The game is old but still gets updated.

I was thinking it might be my driver? I'm using the latest driver. Can i get a really old driver anywhere to test?
 
Just an idea but this is like something that plagued me for ages with an old game on a newly built system about a year ago. It was Return to Castle Wolfenstein which is quite old now. The game would load to the main menu no problems, all seems fine but about 30 secs to 1 min into the gameplay and it hard froze for no reason and needed a reboot. Did this every time. Every other game I played on the system released last year worked fine.

The cause of it? I needed a soundcard! I was using the onboard sound as I had done for ages and never had a dedicated PCI soundcard for years and years. After disabling the onboard mobo sound and installing a Creative X-Fi PCI soundcard I could play Wolfenstein with no problems.

I tried so many things to solve it and just when I thought all was lost I installed a simple PCI soundcard and was over the moon when it worked.

Just an idea, it may or may not help your problem.
 
neoglow said:
Just an idea but this is like something that plagued me for ages with an old game on a newly built system about a year ago. It was Return to Castle Wolfenstein which is quite old now. The game would load to the main menu no problems, all seems fine but about 30 secs to 1 min into the gameplay and it hard froze for no reason and needed a reboot. Did this every time. Every other game I played on the system released last year worked fine.

The cause of it? I needed a soundcard! I was using the onboard sound as I had done for ages and never had a dedicated PCI soundcard for years and years. After disabling the onboard mobo sound and installing a Creative X-Fi PCI soundcard I could play Wolfenstein with no problems.

I tried so many things to solve it and just when I thought all was lost I installed a simple PCI soundcard and was over the moon when it worked.

Just an idea, it may or may not help your problem.
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Unfortuantly my mobo doesnt have any spare expansion card slots ( its a mini itx build ) so i cant try this:(
Maybe theres an option in the bios i can change.
I'm thinking of taking my gfx card out as well and using the onboard to see if the problem still occurs.
 
tsux said:
Unfortuantly my mobo doesnt have any spare expansion card slots ( its a mini itx build ) so i cant try this:(
Maybe theres an option in the bios i can change.
I'm thinking of taking my gfx card out as well and using the onboard to see if the problem still occurs.
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Give that a go, see how you get on. You could also try disabling the onboard mobo sound in the Bios then try the game (with no sound obviously), see if it freezes again, this may reveal the problem.
 
tried disabling onboard audio and it didnt work:(
The only option i could see to disable it was something called 'Azalia codec' so i set it to disabled.
Anyone got any other suggestions? if it helps any the lock ups only seem to occur in certain areas of the game ( ive tried reinstalling )
 
I'll try that next PrCaos.
I just disabled my AMD 6950 and set it to use the onboard Intel i5 graphics.

Guess what... the game doesnt crash now! But the game is completly unplayable running at such a low fps.
This proves it's my 6950 causing the problem right? If yes... whats my next step in solving this?? try a different driver? Does anyone know where I can find an old driver for my 6950?
 
Are you using the latest version of the driver? First of all I would try and update to the latest version. If it still crashes, revert back to the driver that came with it. It should be an installation disc in the box the graphics card came in.

However, if you can't find the driver it came with you can always search online.
 
PrChaos said:
Are you using the latest version of the driver? First of all I would try and update to the latest version. If it still crashes, revert back to the driver that came with it. It should be an installation disc in the box the graphics card came in.

However, if you can't find the driver it came with you can always search online.
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Im using the latest.
Il try using the driver that came with it, but i dont hold much hope:(
Guess i've got a 200£ graphics card that cant even play a simple game that i use play on a 300£ packard bell laptop..
 
PrChaos said:
I doubt it. Either the card is faulty or your PSU is not supplying enough power.

A late question... But what PSU do you have?
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I doubt it's that.
I can play crysis and crysis 2 on max settings from start to end with out a problem. Same with other games. No problem what so ever. It's just this game in certain maps. ( Some maps are fine, other maps i enter and after a few minutes my system locks up )

The PSU is a 600 watt one that came with my Silverstone SG07. It's suppose to be a fairly decent one from what i've been told.
 
tsux said:
I doubt it's that.
I can play crysis and crysis 2 on max settings from start to end with out a problem. Same with other games. No problem what so ever. It's just this game in certain maps. ( Some maps are fine, other maps i enter and after a few minutes my system locks up )

The PSU is a 600 watt one that came with my Silverstone SG07. It's suppose to be a fairly decent one from what i've been told.
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I see. Well clearly it's not the PSU. It's just necessary to eliminate all the possibilities.

It might be worth looking at the technical help forums for the game you're having problems with to see if anyone else is getting similar issues.
 
i had a look and none else seems to have the same problem.
Plus the company is rather bad for giving support and unlikely i will get any or it will take them a month to reply.

I'm uninstalling some stuff now to see if that helps. Last resort will be a clean install of windows 7 and first thing i install is the game to see if the problem still exists.
 
well i uninstalled the catalyst stuff and the driver from device manager and now the game works fine, aaprt from it's unplayable of course.
To me this says its 100% the driver?

Is there a master list of every driver for the 6950? I'm willing to try every one to find one that works
 
I would imagine you can check the AMD website for a list of drivers based on release date.

So just to confirm, it works fine with no sound and you get a good FPS? But obviously... A game without sound is boring...
 
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