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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: MikeDavies on June 17, 2007, 18:54

Title: Game Freezes
Post by: MikeDavies on June 17, 2007, 18:54

Hi, Computer is working fine EXCEPT all my kids games (Harry Potter ETC) all suffer from freezes.

I have reinstalled grapics and audio drivers (latest ) and reistalled said games.

I am fast losing cred! Please any suggestion?

Thanks

Title: Re: Game Freezes
Post by: sam on June 17, 2007, 19:10

hmmm, have you tried any updates that might be availalbe for said games? Also do you have the latest version of directx...

Title: Re: Game Freezes
Post by: Simon on June 17, 2007, 20:32

Also, is the graphics card, and PC in general, up to the standard required for the games?  I thought I had a pretty good graphics card, until recently, when I tried to install the latest Myst game, and it just wouldn't run at all.  The last Harry Potter stuttered a bit at times as well, but I didn't think it was a patch on the previous games, so I wasn't too bothered that it didn't play well, as it gave me an excuse to give up on it.  I am assuming that I will need a new graphics card if I am going to attempt the new one, due out this month.

Title: Re: Game Freezes
Post by: MikeDavies on June 17, 2007, 20:47

These are all games which have worked fine in the past on my computer, which is well inspec for said games.

Title: Re: Game Freezes
Post by: Simon on June 17, 2007, 20:59

Right, so all the games have worked previously, but are suddenly playing up, yes?  Just a thought, but I'm wondering if something else could be running in the background, stealing resources required by the games?  Have you done a spyware scan recently?  Can I suggest you close everything else down, before running one of the games, which should help to eliminate any software issues.

Title: Re: Game Freezes
Post by: MikeDavies on June 24, 2007, 14:54

Thanks for the input.

After trying just about everthing I finally installed a seconhand graphics card from ebay and bingo.. everything working fine.

Out of interest I retried the original card and back came the problem even though device manager reported no problems.
Anyway all ok now

regards

Mike

Title: Re: Game Freezes
Post by: sam on June 24, 2007, 16:33

hmmm... probably the ram on the card or something gone tits up... glad you got it working though! :-)