Video Locks up in game, but background works fine

[montypythizzle]

I play World of Warcraft sometimes and it randomly locks up for a moment and then all is well, usually with degraded frame rates. Then sometimes it just locks up as far as video, but mouse still moves, background programs still work, but I can't alt-tab or ctrl-alt-delete :/

Using latest ATi drivers and HD4830, everything else works just fine, reformatted recently to see if this was the issue.

The only thing I can think of is that M61P-S3 chipset gets REALLY hot usually when this occurs, but it's getting good airflow and isn't overclocked and voltage is stock. It's got a passive heatsink, but when it gets hot why do frame rates go down? Video card is cool, so I have no idea.

 

[lupi]

wow is one of the most intensive cpu/ram games out there. sounds like part of your problems are that your system is at lower end of requirements to run it.

 

[montypythizzle]

3600x2 and 4GBram and HD4830 is lower-end for a 6 year old game?

 

[lupi]

If you don't understand the error with that statement, no one is going to be able to help you.

 

[montypythizzle]

>wow is one of the most intensive cpu/ram games out there

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You can run it on a Pentium 4.

 

[montypythizzle]

Bump, anyone ever had troubles with hot chipset locking up their computer?

 

[montypythizzle]

Sometimes just locks up without the chipset being really hot.

However when I first restart it it's just fine, seems to run how it should, and then slowly gets "shittier" and "shittier" over time.

When researching some people talked about powerplay, but I think when I had hwmonitor installed before reformatting the clocks pretty much stayed how they should the whole time when playing, so IDK. Also I don't think (and I looked around really well) I seen anywhere where I could change settings for clock speeds as far as 2d/3d etc.

This is with Windows 32bit XP btw.