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lost0822

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I just bought BF Vietnam, was playing it on High detail with AA and AF on, unitl yesterday when i guess i got up to the dangerous level for temp. and my computer shut down, that blue screen thing, i'm guessing it started running to hot. No other game i have has done this yet, BF is the first one. Anyway i turned off AA and AF and pushed my graphics card more towards the perfomance side of things as opposed to the Quality side, i used the little slider thing.

I have a Gateway, i know blah, blah, blah my father in law bought it for me and me wife, but it runs really good so far. I'm thinking i need some fans. I opened it up yesterday to take a look at where i can put some. As of now there are none, yes none in there. I have the option of one in the front maybe a couple on the side and one in the back.

Now my question is if i can let's say two fans, one for the side to pull in and one in the back to suck out, will that be good? The only thing i am worried about is by PSU is only 250 watts, i would guess fans use very little power though. Any suggestions?
I also have a 3.5 floppy, One DVD+/-RW, one CD burner with my specs below. thanks
 
Your system memory (RAM) would be a more likely cause of that BSOD (blue screen of death), especially since it just started doing it in BF Vietnam.

If your PC totally shut down then your PSU could also be a problem. 250w is probably enough to run your setup buts probably a generic PSU which are no good at all.
 
I don't know if a lack of juice would cause your system to BSOD on you, most likely it would shut off.


Since there's a chance of a memory problem run Memtest.. Battlefield likes to use whatever RAM is avaliable to it maybe you've found a problem. Only issue I had with BF: Vietnam was the lag everyone is complaining about.
 
Thanks for the replies. Yeah my computer did not totally shut down, it told me just to reboot. I'll try the memory tester, but what does that really do for me, just tell me if there is any problems?
 
Originally posted by lost0822
Thanks for the replies. Yeah my computer did not totally shut down, it told me just to reboot. I'll try the memory tester, but what does that really do for me, just tell me if there is any problems?
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Download and run Memtest86 and see if you get alot of errors. If you do then its most likely the RAM. If the PC didn't totally shut down its probably not the PSU.
 
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