Sudden Crash Upon Loading

I was running my wife's computer on the highest graphics setting for three days and the game ran and looked great, with only occassional lag in St. Martial.

Then suddenly the game got real laggy. Now it won't load at all on the highest settings. I reset for performance but I want to run it on full.

Any ideas why the change?

PC: 2.4G dual core processor
1G ram
256 meg vid card NVDIA Quadro NVS 290.
80G SATA HD

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The Case Against Hardcase- arc id: 438272

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Most likely the Video card is getting too hot. That video card only has a passive cooler on it. Meaning of course no fan! This game is absolute murder on video cards in general. Try running the game and see how hot that card is getting. I would sudgest removing that card and inspecting it for damage since its been operating like you say it has. The Quadro series cards have never truely been meant for gaming.

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So it just over heated on the full setting. Makes sense. It still runs great on the lower settings so I doubt there is any damage.

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The Case Against Hardcase- arc id: 438272

Clowning Around- arc id: 408447

Down the Rabbit Hole- arc id: 193055

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Most likely the Video card is getting too hot.

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This is possible, but it could be a host of other issues. OP, please take a look at the sticky in this forum and post your CoH Helper and HijackThis reports here so we can take a look.

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