Games keep freezing in Win2K

[Hixt]

Whenever i start gaming, whether it's RTCW or Counter Strike, the game will ALWAYS freeze or hang within a matter of minutes. I have an Asus A7V w/ 1.0GHz, 640MB RAM, radeon 7200, all of which have latest drivers.

I just installed windows on a clean hard drive. there is no reason why the games keep freezing. i don't think it matters much, but i'm also NTFS due to windows 2000. I need some help here, anyone have any ideas??? if you got a good one, mail it to me. Reach me Here I aprecieate anything you can give, thanx

~A desparate Gamer

 

[JoeCDaMan]

Hixt,

I had the same thing happen to me, it got extremely annoying especially since I had the fastest pc in the room and usually hosted the games. I think that the problem can be attributed to having the drive formatted as ntfs, because I went back to 98 and had no problems what so ever. Of course this summer my hard drive gave me a S.M.A.R.T. error and I ended up sending it back to Maxtor anyway to get a new one anyway. I am running a dual boot win2k win98 on my machine, giving the majority of my drive to win2k and formatting it as NTFS with no problems. Games like Unreal tournament or Halflife would freeze on me at random times before, but I have been playing GTA3 for like 3 or 4 hrs at a time with no problems what so ever. Sorry I can't give you a definite answer and I hope this doesn't mean that you have to go out and get a new drive. Hopefully your drive will crash hard core and whomever made your drive will just send you a new one

Good Luck

Joe

 

[Hixt]

Actually, i figured it out. now, not only do i hate microsoft, but ATI as well...

I updated the drivers for everything on my comp first thing, but since i got my vid card from my friend, i wasn't sure what model it was. he said radeon 64 DDR, but my comp tld me radeon 7200, so i got those drivers for it. After i tried everything else, i went back to ATI's site and got drivers for 64 DDR and put those in. they said that they worked for all radeon cards, and after i installed them, my comp still said my card was radeon 7200. However, i realized that the drivers i just got, were 5 days more recent. so, depending on where you go on their site, you either get good drivers, or outdated ones, and there's no real way to tell unless you get them all.

but in the end, all is well, i haven't froze up since. watch, now that i said that i will every time again.