Hmm, potential softwere problem...

[duncandun]

Hey, so... hmm, I'm a gamer. And right now, i'm having some problems... oddly enough, it seems they only affect online games.

For instance, I can play Oblivion for hours on end with no problems. But when i go to play WoW, or AC, I might be able to play for... 5 minuites, or 2 hours, but my comp always freezes up. First the game freezes, then sound, then finally my mouse and keyboard freeze. At which point, I can only restart.

Anyone have any ideas? I have Nforce4 AMD drivers, a ASUS a8n motherboard, AMD 64bit 4000+ processor, XFX 7800GT, 2gb OCZ pc3200 ram. Also using the newest Nvidia drivers.

If it's anything, I installed my nforce drivers befor i updated ot sp1 or 2... it was within an hour of each other though.

eh, if anyone has any ideas... let me know, i'm all ears.

 

[v3rt1g0]

No overclocking?

Try uninstalling your drivers with Driver Cleaner, then reinstalling.
Can your computer run Prime95 overnight without any errors?

 

[duncandun]

I haven't tryed prime95 yet, I'll try driver cleaner. Do you think i should get rid of everything or just the nforce driers?

 

[Rifkin]

Anybody know where to look for a problem like this? I am having it myself. I can play BF2 in single player and CSS in a server of my own, but when I go online the program freezes up in 5-10 seconds. Once BF2 did drop me to the desktop though.

 

[Tazman2]

Your power supply is crap, ram is crap/bad, or your cpu and/or video card is running too hot. And as of recently helping with a friend it helped prove a theory of mine. When hooking up your video card with the power supply cable. Do NOT Y off of ANYTHING else! He kept getting crashes just getting into games, etc. So for haha's i 1st had him try the same drivers i had and same thing. Then i had him run a power wire STRAIGHT from the power supply and bam no more crashes!

PS: I said "theory" because i never Y'ed off of anything else but wasn't 100% sure if it was needed but pretty sure!