dj_mocok
Headphoneus Supremus
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My PC often freezes when playing games. Sometimes after 1/2hr playing game, sometimes 1hr or when it's in a good mood, it will let me play 4-5 hrs without freezing.
But it pretty much freezes on games ranging from the current ones such as "The Movies" to older ones like C&C Generals.
I (highly) suspect it's the video card, because whilst playing C&C Generals, sometimes the screen goes black (the game is still running ok) during the game and in some part of the cut scene.
I tried some settings, and under display setting, if I adjust the "Mip map detail level" to "performance" (second one from the 4-bar slider), it runs ok and the black scene doesn't show at all. But if I adjust it one step higher towards "quality", it will go black again.
Now, this didn't happen to me before, I remember when I just bought my videocard I could play this game at all-highest setting level with no problem at all. Plus my card is an ATI 9600 XT Extreme, so it should chew older game like Generals without effort. (But it doesn't!)
So my guess is, my P.O.S. video card is faulty already. Or I might be wrong and it's actually something else altogether?
So which part of the PC do you think is most likely the broken one?
Without playing game, sometimes it also restart by itself, but it's really a once in a blue moon thing.
I tried to reinstall windows, use all current drivers, and it's still the same. So something must be broken here.
Any second opinion?
Thanks.
PS: This is my rig:
AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton - stock speed
1GB DDR400 (512MB X2 in Dual Channel DDR Mode)
Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro-2
Gigacube 128MB Radeon 9600 XT
But it pretty much freezes on games ranging from the current ones such as "The Movies" to older ones like C&C Generals.
I (highly) suspect it's the video card, because whilst playing C&C Generals, sometimes the screen goes black (the game is still running ok) during the game and in some part of the cut scene.
I tried some settings, and under display setting, if I adjust the "Mip map detail level" to "performance" (second one from the 4-bar slider), it runs ok and the black scene doesn't show at all. But if I adjust it one step higher towards "quality", it will go black again.
Now, this didn't happen to me before, I remember when I just bought my videocard I could play this game at all-highest setting level with no problem at all. Plus my card is an ATI 9600 XT Extreme, so it should chew older game like Generals without effort. (But it doesn't!)
So my guess is, my P.O.S. video card is faulty already. Or I might be wrong and it's actually something else altogether?
So which part of the PC do you think is most likely the broken one?
Without playing game, sometimes it also restart by itself, but it's really a once in a blue moon thing.
I tried to reinstall windows, use all current drivers, and it's still the same. So something must be broken here.
Any second opinion?
Thanks.
PS: This is my rig:
AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton - stock speed
1GB DDR400 (512MB X2 in Dual Channel DDR Mode)
Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro-2
Gigacube 128MB Radeon 9600 XT