hey everybody,
i just built this system a month ago, and it has had problems from the get-go. whenever i try to play ANY game, it freezes immediately almost every time. whenever it does run, however, it runs *beautifully*. what am i doing wrong??? here's the specs:
C2D e4300 (currently OC'd to 2700mhz, not oc'ing doesn't make a difference)
ASUS p5b deluxe wifi
-mb includes onboard lan, wifi, and sound
2 gigs patriot pc5300
evga 8800gts 320mb superclocked
OCZ 600watt gamexstream
soundblaster live! 5.1 digital platinum
wd 320gb 16meg 7200rpm
asus dvd-rom
monitor, speakers, etc.
Windows XP Pro
the games i'm currently trying to run are:
halflife 2 - hangs about 90% of the time, always when the 3D title screen is starting to load
fear - hangs about 85% of the time, usually after the save game loads, then freezes/artifacts after about 3 sec
oblivion - hangs about 85% of the time during loading title screen or loading game
halo - freezes about 85% of the time
planescape torment - game stutters
also, if i get a game to load, usually will crash after an hour or so with a video error after i report the error to MS after restarting the pc. i'm currently using 158.22 forceware drivers, no version of any foreceware drivers has alleved this problem in any way. this is *so* frustrating, does anyone have any ideas???
i just built this system a month ago, and it has had problems from the get-go. whenever i try to play ANY game, it freezes immediately almost every time. whenever it does run, however, it runs *beautifully*. what am i doing wrong??? here's the specs:
C2D e4300 (currently OC'd to 2700mhz, not oc'ing doesn't make a difference)
ASUS p5b deluxe wifi
-mb includes onboard lan, wifi, and sound
2 gigs patriot pc5300
evga 8800gts 320mb superclocked
OCZ 600watt gamexstream
soundblaster live! 5.1 digital platinum
wd 320gb 16meg 7200rpm
asus dvd-rom
monitor, speakers, etc.
Windows XP Pro
the games i'm currently trying to run are:
halflife 2 - hangs about 90% of the time, always when the 3D title screen is starting to load
fear - hangs about 85% of the time, usually after the save game loads, then freezes/artifacts after about 3 sec
oblivion - hangs about 85% of the time during loading title screen or loading game
halo - freezes about 85% of the time
planescape torment - game stutters
also, if i get a game to load, usually will crash after an hour or so with a video error after i report the error to MS after restarting the pc. i'm currently using 158.22 forceware drivers, no version of any foreceware drivers has alleved this problem in any way. this is *so* frustrating, does anyone have any ideas???
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