PC Freezing while Gaming

[Psycho Pitbull]

Hi All

I seem to be having a problem with my comper since Friday evening, was hoping that someone here can help me.

Whenever I start playing games, I get about 5 - 10 minutes in, then my screen goes blank and my machine freezes up.
My 1st thought that something might be overheating, so I opened up my machine this morning and took all the components out, cleaned everthing up and reseated all components... hoping that it might help.
But alas, no....... Had the same problem again a bit earlier after about 10 minutes of MW3.
After it freezed up, I felt inside, but nothing was really hot (CPU, GPU and PSU was all quite cool to the touch)

I haven't changed or replaced anything prior to having the problems, and my CPU and GPU is just less than a year old, PSU I think is about 4-5 years old.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx
PP

[NomNom]

Download memtest, put it on your flash drive and reboot into it and have it test your ram.

If nothing is found try and reinstall your graphics driver, by first uninstalling it, restarting and reinstalling it. You can use this program if you wish to help you with it: http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

You can also get the latest driver for your graphics card:

AMD/ATI Drivers
Nvidia Drivers



If your problem still isn't sorted you can try this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolso...fc-scannow.htm

Other things you can try:

Download CCleaner and run (untick internet history/cookies if required).
Download Malwarebytes, update and run (Full scan).

[czc]

What about graphics driver. I used to have problems during BC2 with some ATI drivers.

[Psycho Pitbull]

Now that I think about it, my PC did dl the latest Nvidea drivers on Friday afternoon when I got home.
Will try reinstalling it.

Thanx for that.

[aka.Goliath]

If nothing is found try and reinstall your graphics driver, by first uninstalling it, restarting and reinstalling it. You can use this program if you wish to help you with it: http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

You can also get the latest driver for your graphics card:

AMD/ATI Drivers
Nvidia Drivers

I totally agree had the same issue with my AMD drivers, went back to the old one and waited for a new release

[Psycho Pitbull]

You guys were right, seems like the problem was AMD driver related.
Downloaded the newest drivers and installed, seems to have sorted out the problem.

Thanx for all your guys help, much appreciated.

Cheers

[NomNom]

Good to hear you got sorted out.

[srothman]

Mine (Also AMD...surprise surprise) is doing the same thing now, with the newest drivers. Might try and roll back a couple of versions and see if that sorts out my problem.

[Pr⊕phet]

PC Freezing while Gaming

Did you try one of these ?

[Psycho Pitbull]

Did you try one of these ?

I did try one of those, but I keep hitting the melee button instead of the reload button.
Also my wife thought that I was looking at pronz.

[AfricanTech]

You guys were right, seems like the problem was AMD driver related.
Downloaded the newest drivers and installed, seems to have sorted out the problem.

Thanx for all your guys help, much appreciated.

Cheers

Umm, so the post where you said pc downloaded Nvidia drivers was in error?

Asking 'cos I've found the latest iterations of the Nvidia drivers (even the beta's) to be very stable

(PS: Switched from AMD to Nvidia a couple of years ago after a particularly bad upgrade experience)

[Psycho Pitbull]

Umm, so the post where you said pc downloaded Nvidia drivers was in error?

Asking 'cos I've found the latest iterations of the Nvidia drivers (even the beta's) to be very stable

(PS: Switched from AMD to Nvidia a couple of years ago after a particularly bad upgrade experience)

You sir..... are correct.
That was a mistake, it was AMD drivers, not Nvidia. I blame it on the fact that I have almost exclusively only owned Nvidia cards since forever, my current card is my 1st AMD card.

[Psycho Pitbull]

EDIT:

I am still having the same issues.
I uninstalled the drivers and software, ran all the programs to make sure they are of the registry as well, installed older drivers, still same story.
Even went so far as doing a fresh install of Windows and reloaded everything...... but still it doesn't want to play along.

Any ideas?

[czc]

EDIT:

I am still having the same issues.
I uninstalled the drivers and software, ran all the programs to make sure they are of the registry as well, installed older drivers, still same story.
Even went so far as doing a fresh install of Windows and reloaded everything...... but still it doesn't want to play along.

Any ideas?

What worked for me was to disable all the extra sound devices apart from the one that I have my speakers plugged into.

[Psycho Pitbull]

Righto, will try that.
Quite strange actually, going like a boeing without problems, just from Friday night it started becoming a headache.
Few random forums from Google suggests it might be a RAM problem as well, will test that as well and see.