game freezes often

game freezes often when I open up the costumes box, or if i open other in-game boxes, such as other player's info/badges, etc.
my system info is below...please advise me on changes

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at July 25, 2010 19:38 (-10:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/25/09 11:21:16 Ver: 08.00.15
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 550 Processor, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
Memory: 3520MB
.Net Memory Report: 2945MB out of 3519MB available
Page File: 4943MB (458MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B2) 462665MB out of 476929MB (97%) free
D Drive: (LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163) zero-size drive
E Drive: (SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-248F) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8300
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 8300
Video Memory: 256.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0012.5896
Driver Date: 7/9/2010 12:38:00 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: HD Audio rear output
Driver File: viahduaa.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1560
Driver Date: 12/18/2008 5:39:30 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: M4N78 PRO
Motherboard Version: Rev 1.xx
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 05/25/09 11:21:16 Ver: 08.00.15
BIOS Version: 052509 - 20090525
BIOS Release: 20090525000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Medium quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Medium?


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Stencil shadows
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance


Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1800.201006040036.8T
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

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Anyone at all that can figure out what could be my issue? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Have you tried it in the game's safe mode, the check box for it is found on the updater on the second page. The embedded video solution on your motherboard isn't all that powerful, safe mode should reset all the video options to minimum.

And when you say freeze, do you mean freeze and never comes back or freeze as in long pause and it starts running again?

You should also check the Asus site for an updated drivers and possibly a newer BIOS.

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Yes I've ran it in safe mode, laggy as hell.

Game just basically freezes up. The first few times I'd change my costume or look at someone's bio or open up my contacts, it's fine. After the 10th time or so, it just basically freezes and I'd have to re-log.

Could be that I need to update the BIOS driver, unfortunately I can't seem to figure out what I have according to COHelper. May have to seek professional help. =(

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First a question. Does the game play ok before the freeze? You say the first few times opening windows it's fine but does that just mean it doesn't freeze or that the game actually runs fairly well before then?

Honestly it sounds like a memory leak though I've never yet seen one that was triggered by opening windows. You could try running the task manager and keeping track of the games memory usage. Also every time you zone or every couple of times you open a window, type /unloadgfx

Let us know if that makes any difference.

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