Help Guys!!!!

[Slickgreen]

Ok
My PC has been acting funny lately

Here are my specs
P4 2.4
Radeon 9800 pro
512 pc3200
120 gig harddrive

Whenever i play games like Unreal 2k4
and battlefield Vietnam
the game freezes on my during gameplay

no sounds no error just freezes or locks

I cant figure out what is going on
And when i update the ati drivers to the latest 4.3 i cant play my older games like soilder of fortune 2 or COD
the give me some error during startin up

so
what test can i run please need help im going crazy
thanks guys

 

[BoWser]

check other drivers such as sound card and motherboard first. Also, try to clean out any old drivers using driver cleaner. Possibly a reinstall of these games, defrag or a search for spyware might help, but if all of this fails, its probably best to format.