Lockup: Why Counter Strike?

[tcraig_4096]

Hello [H]'ers, thanks for reading.

I upgraded my video card from a 3850 to a 6850. I also finally bought a flat monitor (24" Gateway) and a new power supply (550W Antec) to power the new card. I'm still running my old overclocked 6750 with 4 gigs of ram and I don't think it is having a problem.

I upgraded the card because counterstrike was locking up on me. The 3850 was old, and it got very very hot to the touch. I thought I had a heat issue.

The problem is that my new 6850 also will do a hard video lock (sound stutters, screen frozen, input doesn't work) during counterstrike too. It is a flippin DX 9.0 old game and I don't really get why it would do that. I never had the problem for several years with my old card.

It does get really hot, but my question is why does it handle endless hours of Starcraft and Lotro fine but lock up in CSS? Should I put another fan on the side of the case on top the card? Is it even a heat issue? I would like to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,
Travis

P.S. The other thing that occurred to me is maybe the Asus onboard sound (i think it is a realtek chip) is causing a problem? Is that possible?

 

[450]

Full system specs?

Have you tried a reinstalling your operating system? DirectX? CS:S?

 

[tcraig_4096]

Intel core 2 duo 6750 @3200Mhz
Asus P5K-E
Sapphire 6850
4 GB OCZ DDR2
2 75GB Raptors in RAID0
extra 500gb HD, optical drive
Antec 550W Basiq (modular).
Vista 64 fully updated

Think a reformat or re-install might be the key I'm missing here?

 

[superballz00]

I've been having the same issue on my laptop with a 8600gt. The problem is with the gameoverlayui.exe. Go post your GameOverlayUI.exe.log and GameOverlayRenderer.log files on the Steam forum and hopefully someone can help you out. I haven't had any luck with it.

 

[hdnut]

Steam sometimes does wacky things to its own files, which can lead to lock ups or game crashes. Post in Steam forums and see what responses you get and search their forums for possible solutions.

I managed to resolve CSS crashes/lockups by deleting certain files in the Steam folder, many moons ago, and I find out how to do it on their forums. I don't remember which files I had to delete to make it work, so just check their forums and you should find something.

Also, try performing game integrity check in Steam.

 

[RickyL]

reinstall steam or try reformating your system

 

[hdnut]

reinstall steam or try reformating your system

It doesn't have to be this drastic since he is not having issues with more demanding games. My hunch is that he has couple of config files that needs deleting within the Steam folders.

 

[tcraig_4096]

Correct. Dirt 3, Civ5, DS3, and Starcraft don't seem to have a problem at all.

 

[tcraig_4096]

Okay so I have narrowed this down even further. I don't even believe it is a video problem anymore. I can play regular CSS for hours with impunity, the only thing that locks up is my favorite server which runs Gun Game mod.

I checked the Steam forums and couldn't find much helpful info. Anyone else have this very specific problem? Everything else runs pretty great.

 

[glenn37216]

Could be a driver issue. I get random lock ups in Cs on my 5850 rig with the 11.8's CAT's. Rolled back to the 11.5's and haven't had a lock up since.

 

[kingdom9214]

I believe the culprit is Vista 64-bit, I could be wrong but I had this issue since I went from Vista HP 32-bit to Vista Ult 64-bit around the time Windows 7 RC came out. I had the problem were when I shot my gun it would stutter then the sound would play 5 seconds later. As soon as I installed Windows 7 RC the issue when away. I've been on Windows 7 ever since. Never had the problem again, neither with my 5870'm on my laptop or my GTX 480's