games freezes then continues

Eis

i have just built a system and wehn i try and play farcry or ut24k i can play for about 3-5 min then it freezes for about 6 sec then plays fora a few more then freezes in ut24k some times it ok and does the same as farcry but at times some of the textures disapear and reappear everything is new what is the problem, i can play cod and cs and q3 no problems but with these games i have problems i know there sytem and memory hogs but what i ask....

GutterPunk

The memory should be okay in your system, but I had the same problem on a comp w/ 256megs of ram as it would try and increase the pagefile. Run memtest and make sure everything is okay. also, do you get any errors while this freeze and go happens? Have you tried to alt + tab out of the game to see if anything is happening. Does the HDD or CD ROM spin up during these times? Do you have items running in the background? Next time this happens, alt +tab out of the game and cntrl alt delte. See what processes are running and make sure nothing is taking up too much cpu. just some ideas hope some of these help you determine whats wrong

Eis

yes i checked no errors it just freeezes/stops and the continues where it left off after that, no cd rom spionning donthink the hd is check shut down antivirus, stuck the 6800 into a 1,2 machie with 512 and it was laggy but dint stop so dont htink its the card thanks for the ideas

GutterPunk

well heck i just covered all the basics from here i have no clue, sufficient cooling in your box right? nothing over heating ie northbridge?

germanjulian

sound!?? uninstall your sound card and try again without sound....

maybe its an irq conflcits. if it works without the soundcard try another pci slot.

are you sure all drivers are installed correctly?

Eis

took sound card out still same thing open the cas put a house fan blowing in same thing so wither the mobo do loke the ram or theres a prob with the ram or the psu might not hold up to the spec of the rails

germanjulian

weird..... lower the latency on your ram....
try reinstalling the drivers... windows even....

good luck......
if nothing works get a new mobo, new cpu, new ram,,, just return everything and get a different system... maybe one component doesnt like some other components.. its extreme but happens sometimes..

Vampyromaniac

can you try some more games? I'm just wondering . . . so far it looks like Direct3D games have the problem, and OpenGL don't . . . just wondering

Eis

ya call of duty dosnt, cs, quak3 , and lord of the ring dosnt. it might be a opengl direct driver thing and patches i heard its with the 6800 u but few gts thanks for the help

BWX

Did you try DH-driver cleaner and Cab cleaner? I would seriously do that if you haven't. Let cab cleaner run, it took a LONG time when I did it, you just have to let it keep going, it will eventually stop- don't stop it manually. -only then reinstall latest WHQL Nvidia drivers.


Sounds like a really pesky problem, weird that it does it in DirectX games but NOT OpenGL games. Very strange indeed. I would say reinstall directX AND make sure all your motherboard (northbridge and south-bridge/ IDE/ SATA) drivers are all up to date and cleanly installed..

Since it only does it in DirectX games it seems like it must be a software thing. Just some ideas. Good luck man.