PC Freezing while Gaming

Psycho Pitbull

Psycho Pitbull

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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
 
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/toolsofthetrade/ht/sfc-scannow.htm

Other things you can try:

Download CCleaner and run (untick internet history/cookies if required).
Download Malwarebytes, update and run (Full scan).
 
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What about graphics driver. I used to have problems during BC2 with some ATI drivers.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
Psycho Pitbull said:
PC Freezing while Gaming
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Did you try one of these ?

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Psycho Pitbull said:
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
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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)
 
AfricanTech said:
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)
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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.
 
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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?
 
Psycho Pitbull said:
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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?
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What worked for me was to disable all the extra sound devices apart from the one that I have my speakers plugged into.
 
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.
 
Psycho Pitbull said:
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.
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Oh my...

I'm having heat prickles as I flashback to my nightmare upgrade - started when I switched from nvidia based card to amd - ended up replacing, in order, bigger psu, new ram, new motherboard, full reinstall, bios tweaking, until I eventually gave up and vendor kindly swapped the amd based card for an nvidia - now it may just have been coincidence and card swap triggered a general meltdown of my system, but it put me off the amd cards forever (even though they have a better price / performance ratio) - I know, I know, millions use amd cards without problems

Before you go down this road, try swapping back to your old card and see if you still have problems.


Shudder, I feel nauseous just thinking about it - two weeks of late night frustration - aargh

Good luck - really feel for you
 
AfricanTech said:
...Before you go down this road, try swapping back to your old card and see if you still have problems.


Shudder, I feel nauseous just thinking about it - two weeks of late night frustration - aargh

Good luck - really feel for you
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Well, I guess that's all that is left for me to do, is to go and search for my old GT9600 card and try that one again.
Windows Memory test came up snake eyes, so doesn't seem to be a RAM problem.
Everything has been running hundred cement up until I installed the latest AMD drivers on Friday.
Really hoped a fresh install of Windows would have sorted it out......... 250GB of Steam backups to reinstall for nothing really :cry:
Kinda at wit's end atm.


/Time to go to gym and take my frustrations out there/
 
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Psycho Pitbull said:
Well, I guess that's all that is left for me to do, is to go and search for my old GT9600 card and try that one again.
Windows Memory test came up snake eyes, so doesn't seem to be a RAM problem.
Everything has been running hundred cement up until I installed the latest AMD drivers on Friday.
Really hoped a fresh install of Windows would have sorted it out......... 250GB of Steam backups to reinstall for nothing really :cry:
Kinda at wit's end atm.


/Time to go to gym and take my frustrations out there/
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After reading your original post and this one,

Is it just MW3 that this issue happens with, or other games?

How many cores does your processor have?
 
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