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3D Applications Crashing

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Zer0_II

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Yesterday, a patch was released for Counter-Strike: Source. I downloaded it, and then joined a game. About a minute into the game, my computer froze, then immediately shut down. After I restarted, another patch downloaded, and I went to play again, but the same thing happened; it just froze, then shut down. And ever since then, I can't play any games for more than about a minute before my computer crashes.

It can't be an overheating issue -- my case has good airflow, never had previous overheating issues, and has warnings set up to lower the voltage if the temperature goes too high.

It can't be a DirectX issue, because ALL of my games are crashing, including games like DooM 3 which are OpenGL-rendered games. I ran dxdiag just to make sure that everything was fine, and it is.

I upgraded my video card drivers next, to the Catalyst 6.8 drivers, yet nothing has so much as helped.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Edit: Another interesting thing to note, my GBA and SNES emulators work just fine, but the installer for C&C Red Alert 2 does not. I imagine that RA2 itself also doesn't work.
 
Zer0_II said:
It can't be an overheating issue -- my case has good airflow, never had previous overheating issues, and has warnings set up to lower the voltage if the temperature goes too high.
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Yeah thats great that its gonne lower the voltage but is that gonna matter if your cpu fan or the fan on your vid card died? Never assume its not the problem just because it never happened in the past.
 
What power supply do you have? Video Card? Maybe its eating its own head? If the game crashes as soon as the 3d Accelerator fires up I'm betting it has something to do with the power. Re-seat the video card and try and use a different rail to the internal power slot on the card, preferrable one without any extra things attached to the chain.
 
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