Why do games crash ?

romperstomper · 7 Jan 2008 at 22:02

Anyone know why games crash ,what is the cause and what can you do if anything !

Have tried ;
turning things off in msconfig
un-clocking my video card
downloading patches

I play all games on high settings and get stutter free game play but frequent game crashing ,my pc should be able to handle it any ideas !

romperstomper · 7 Jan 2008 at 22:08

Zefan said:
Define crash.

The game either locks up ,or screen goes black or shuts down and goes into windows .Sometimes it will make a strange noise through the speakers until reboot .

Bioshock at the moment ,every 30 mins ,oblivion was similar !

romperstomper · 7 Jan 2008 at 22:13

Zefan said:
Any sort of freaky artifacting in game? My 6800gt often packs up mid game and it looks like someone's spilled a rainbow all over my screen.

No none !

romperstomper · 7 Jan 2008 at 22:21

Herojuana said:
My PC does that a lot when the CPU is clocked too high, is yours?

I guess I could try taking it back a tad maybe 2.8 and see what happens ,good idea ,I did think of this but did not really won't to do it

romperstomper · 8 Jan 2008 at 14:29

Have used memtest which run error free overnight 7 tests o errors
ATI tool scans for artifacts okay .
Whats the best way to test the memory on my 8800 gtx ?
thanks

romperstomper · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:44

Yeah I did have a virus but its gone now ,still getting game crash ,"Sorry this program needs to shutdown"

Also tried un-clocking my cpu !

So dose anyone know how to test the video card memory ?

romperstomper · 9 Jan 2008 at 01:29

Zogger said:
But really, nTune (which adds into the nvidia control panel when installed) has some 'stability tests'
I haven't tried them but it does include the option to run a stability test on your gpu, as well as the rest of your system.

Yeah it passed that too but its not much of a test for a modern pc used less than 0.5 gb memory and 25% of my cpu its only tested in 2d too ,perhaps they wan't to make sure there cards all pass