Curse

Lurid · Apr 09, 2006, 05:43 AM // 05:43

My System Specifics:
AMD Opteron 144
DFI nF4 UT Ultra-D
G.Skill Extreme Series DDR500 2 x 1024MB
Enermax Liberty 500w
eVGA 7800GT

Randomly in game, usually after i've been playing for an extended period of time the game will freeze. When music is playing in the background it will repeat. All settings are at stock, w/ a fresh reformat and everything installed correctly. The system passes P95 12+ hours w/o problems, temperatures are all completely under control under 100% load, and memtest several passes, several instances, several hours.

The problem isn't severe, just not normal, and alittle annoying. Almost thinking that the disk is maybe scratched and some of the data is corrupt. When the crash occurs the system will just completely lock up, and thus no error message. Next time it occurs I intend to check the windows error logs....

Ghozer · Apr 09, 2006, 07:40 PM // 19:40

Its a few possibilities..

GFX Card not seated properly
GFX Card getting too warm (even if your tempreatures report fine, its still worth manually checking (carefully touch it

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are you using onboard nForce sound???? I have found ( on more than 4 different systems ) that using the nForce, onboard sound, the game can frequently lock up, disable on board, use no sound or another sound card, its fine..

It could also be that the PSU is dieing.... Often, as PSU's age, or if they are cheap ones... as with any component, thier reliability degrades, and if the PSU cant supply the correct, stable ammount of power or current required by your machine, then it will freeze up...

i had this issue once, it was the PSU, and a new 550watt sorted it... not had a problem since