Screen freezing sometimes when playing games

sola159

sola159

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Hi, I've had this odd problem off my screen freezing for about 2-3 seconds when playing multiplayer games such as TF2 or Heroes of Newerth.

My specs are I5-2500k OC to 4.2 Ghz , 4gb Ram and a 5850 sapphire raddeon on stock settings
I am using the stock intel heatsink and my temps are
CPU : 43 to 48 when running a game such as Heroes of Newerth.
GPU is between 45 and 50 degrees.

I play these on a 1920x1080 resolution and on settings such as 4x AA and 8x Antistrophic filtering.

Anyone know any reason why the freezes keep happening?

Thanks
 
ah yes you mean the 1gb ram of the video card? well I will try that but these games aren't graphically intensive shouldn't the card be able to handle it?
 
Indeed yes :)

Download GPU-Z and leave it running in the background to monitor vram usage. It may not be that though if the games aren't too graphically intense.

Is the graphics card overclocked at all?
 
If it happens at regular intervals then it could be due to hard drives going to sleep and then waking again. Can stop this happening by disabling it in the power settings.
 
Sounds like a common problem in many games. If it's overclocked to 4.2 Ghz and you've got a stock intel cooler with the PC at 48c while under load... You must have an amazing airflow to keep it that cool under load.

I would try lowering all of your settings at first to eliminate any hardware acceleration errors.

If that fails... Run a HDD scan and also a memtest86 to eliminate faulty ram.

The other thing to do would be to investigate the PSU to see if it's supplying enough power to the system.
 
nope the gpu isnt overclocked, I have overclocked it though as of this post its set to 900/1200 atm. I have also downloaded the GPU-Z can you tell me from which line I can read the Vram usage from ?
 
Well prChaos im just giving you the info i get from CoreTemp , the highest core is at 48 degree atm , but yea i will try the memtest and the other things you suggested

I have changed the hard disk power option from shutting down after 20 mins of inactivity to 80 mins, hope that does the trick if all else fails I will try some other solutions. Thanks for all the help so far :)
 
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Had to sort out a PC that was doing this very thing just got it sorted today.

Turns out that the SoundCard was at fault.

Its an XFI - the one that uses and External Breakout box and its been playing up for a while but I could not find any real issues with it, but then it failed to find the sound card only yesterday for the first time in days for me.

Annoyingly, I then re-seated it and it was fine again, but even though it was supposed to crash this or that game after a while, the games were not my style so I threw on a few that I do like but they played fine.

The only thing that I managed to find that would crash every time at a specific place was either 3DMark03 or 05 and both would do the first test flawlessly but both would bring up a dialog box telling me that it had stopped working.

I realised that thie was when it played the first test but then with sound.

I took the card out and it played the tests fine I put the card into one ofmine and it stopped the tests same as the other PC.

It took me ages to find the error because for days the card was perfectly fine and would nevergive me any blue screens or anything, just awful slowdown apparently for the lad who's PC it was, and Movies etc played fine.

So, check out the Sound Card just in case.... You never know?
 
FatRakoon said:
Had to sort out a PC that was doing this very thing just got it sorted today.

Turns out that the SoundCard was at fault.

Its an XFI - the one that uses and External Breakout box and its been playing up for a while but I could not find any real issues with it, but then it failed to find the sound card only yesterday for the first time in days for me.

Annoyingly, I then re-seated it and it was fine again, but even though it was supposed to crash this or that game after a while, the games were not my style so I threw on a few that I do like but they played fine.

The only thing that I managed to find that would crash every time at a specific place was either 3DMark03 or 05 and both would do the first test flawlessly but both would bring up a dialog box telling me that it had stopped working.

I realised that thie was when it played the first test but then with sound.

I took the card out and it played the tests fine I put the card into one ofmine and it stopped the tests same as the other PC.

It took me ages to find the error because for days the card was perfectly fine and would nevergive me any blue screens or anything, just awful slowdown apparently for the lad who's PC it was, and Movies etc played fine.

So, check out the Sound Card just in case.... You never know?
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Very true. This is a known bug/glitch that can cause many games to freeze, crash or even lock up the system entirely forcing a hard reset.
 
Hey FatRakoon and thanks for your suggestion, however I just use the inbuilt sound of the motherboard which is an MSI P67A-G45. I will try though to lower the sound quality inside the game menus where the freezing occurs from high to medium or even low.
 
On board Audio?

while I cannot possibly comment on how good or bad this is, and while I do appreciate that Onboard Audio has come a hell of a long way in recent years, there is simply no excuse for that kind of behaviour at all.

Here are a couple of great cards for the price.

Personally I feel that the Asus is much better.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-012-AS&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-040-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

But hell, if its that you really are a skin-flint Ebeneezer scrooge, then you cannot go wrong with this for the price.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-149-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

Well, I hope you cant... Seems to me a bit too cheap to be honest... You might be better off looking in the MM for something like an Audigy 2 Second hand...

LOL

Im only pulling your leg mate, but seriously, get a SoundCard if you are going to be playing games... You have clearly got the Graphics capabilities and the Processing capabilities and so crippling your audio seems a bit strange to me.

OK?
 
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