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    Constant Freezing in Games

    I thought DRM might be an issue, but WoW and Warhammer don't have DRM since they are online only. I am unsure if HL2 has DRM, and I know Titan Quest has DRM, but it suffers the least compared to the other games. CPU, Memory, Temps are normal during games. I thought overheating might be the...
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    That is what I thought, till I disabled the onboard NIC in the BIOS, and tried HL2 in offline mode, and Titan Quest (a single player game) and still had the same issue. I do have a intel PCI NIC ordered to replace the onboard Realtek. the other hitch, was 3dMark06 ran just fine without the...
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    I have a nvidia 8800GTS 320MB PCI-e. I am sorry if I wasn't clear. All games will do the following: Sometimes they will play fine for a few minutes, and then they will hang (better word than freeze i suppose) for a short period of time (in seconds). They will only hang for few seconds, and...
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    Disabled my NIC, HL2 and Titan Quest still had issues. HL2 would at least go into the game, but I could actually time the momentary freezing. I guess this leaves it to either the CPU or Mobo. Since I don't want to spend the money guessing, guess I will just start saving for a intel based...
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    Well I ran a CPU test, threw my temps up to 42 C so it was pushing it pretty hard...but no errors after 7 hours. At this point I have tested everything I can think of. My PC runs flawlessly when doing anything regular (Eclipse, PhotoShop, Picasa, Open Office, Chrome with 12 windows, FF with 10...
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    Ok, Installed a new HDD, installed XP, but didn't update beyond SP2. Same exact problem, so its not the HDD or XP patches. My guess is its either the CPU or Mobo at this point, and I have no clue what I can do to verify this without spending money on a new CPU or Mobo.
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    Yeah, I did that when I uninstalled the Nvidia to use the onboard video card. I also tried multiple versions of the nvidia driver and used Drive Cleaner between the driver changes. no success so far. After I switched the power supply I was able to play the game for about 4 minutes before it...
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    Well, installed the newer 500W power supply and its still an issue. I think my total power draw with all my components is under 350W so after putting in the other PSU, I don't think that is the problem... I guess the next step is to try a different HDD?
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    Well its an older 550W Antec, about 3 years old. That might be the problem. I have a newer 500W Thermaltake in my server machine that is about 8 months old, I might toss that in there and see if thats the problem. You think it might just be the age of the PSU? The 550W should have been...
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    Constant Freezing in Games

    Ok, so I built a PC back in January: AMD X2 4800+ MSI Mobo 2GB(2x1GB) G.Skill 500GB HDD WD EVGA 8800GTS 320MB PCI-e Recently I started getting a problem with Freezing in a few of games (Warhammer Online and WoW). The games will play fine for about 5-10 seconds then freeze for about 1-5...