Random freezing when playing
By
Bruce_Lightning,
Posted on: 2009-05-29 17:49 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Realised I've been talking out my rear end about the SP3 thing, I put that on months before I got this card so that's not the cause (thankfully!)
I've installed tons of stuff in an attempt to solve this problem, new VIA motherboard drivers, usb driver patch, new sound drivers, new bios, 5 different types of nvidia drivers (ran driver sweeper before installing them all), rivatuner, nTune, speedfan, burnintest, refresh force, nothing has helped.
I've tried every resolution and refresh rate and quality setting on the nvidia control panel, overclocked, underclocked, changed fan speeds, force fastwriting off, agp 4x and 8x, the works.
I was running mixed memory and took out the odd stick so I have matched pair in now and have run memtest on them as a pair and individually (3 passes each and 7 passes as a pair).
I've tried powering the video card from it's own lead on the power supply instead of daisy chaining it with one of the hard drives, no difference.
At this juncture then, I suspect it may be a problem with the video card... Does this happen on ANY other game? Bear in mind that, whilst an old game, CoH can push even a modern video card to its limits due to the way the engine is written and the nature of OpenGL.
@FloatingFatMan
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He said he has the same problem with C&C 3 and WAR. I'm suspecting video card at this stage too.
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@Miss Chief
All fixed now! Used latest beta drivers, played with the RAM timing and changed the 3D quality settings slightly. No more crashes!
Thanks to all who contributed fix suggestions, much appreciated.
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All fixed now! Used latest beta drivers, played with the RAM timing and changed the 3D quality settings slightly. No more crashes!
Thanks to all who contributed fix suggestions, much appreciated.
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Aah! Glad you got it sorted! Any more problems, don't hesitate to ask. 
@FloatingFatMan
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Done that, several times!
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Then, as you mentioned that it all worked fine before SP3, I think it's time to eliminate that as a cause and uninstall it. However, due to the nature of service packs, it MAY be that uninstalling isn't sufficient. Reinstalling Windows though, is not a suggestion I'm going to make.
Did you install ANYthing else lately? Motherboard drivers? Intel chipset updates? BIOS update? More RAM?
Hmm... There's an idea. Can you get hold of MEMTest, make a boot disc, and run your PC through it a few times? This COULD be a RAM error...
@FloatingFatMan
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.