ok so at first i just thought it was a small problem, but it turns out this is happening...a lot. ok first started with oblivion, it crashes randomly when i goto a different area (i.e. going into a town/house) then it was happening with WoW it would just crash at random times (mainly when im on the flight path) then today i bought fable, installed it and it crashes right as it starts up.... someone plz plz plz help me this is sooooo frustrating :cry:
Is the computer just recently built? Check if you have the latest drivers for your motherboard and graphics card, if not, update them. I do not use the one's provided on disc since they tend to be older ones.
alright, ill reinstall the vid card drivers. how do i find out what motherboard im using? is it under device manager? cuz i wanna see if i can find drivers for that as well....
ok so my video card i know is the ATI sapphire X1650 but on the site i have no idea witch one to get because theres a list of like 10 so if someone would kindly get me a link to the right one, thanks
ok so my video card i know is the ATI sapphire X1650 but on the site i have no idea witch one to get because theres a list of like 10 so if someone would kindly get me a link to the right one, thanksSSJ_Tenx
Hmm. I had similar problems with my HIS x1650 most if not all the problems are gone now, except for one. The card doesn't like Need For Speed games: NFS Carbon wont install and Most Wanted installs but crashes immediately when I try to load up the driving sequences. Or maybe it just doesn't like my driving 8 |. I should be glad because it used to crash every game at random intervals.
I really don't know what exactly fixed the problem but here are a couple of things I did: I had an Nvidia 6200 card before I got the x1650 so some of the drivers where still lingering. I used a driver cleaner software to get rid of that. I pulled the card out of my system and checked it for any dust build up around the AGP slot and card itself. Checked if I had proper air flow. Upgraded to the lated driver package. etc.
Could you elaborate a little. Like; what are your os and specs & hve you recently made any changes? What do you mean by crash? (crash to desktop, freeze up, reboot, error messages, etc.)
Oh and for your graphics card, don't know where you're looking, but you can just download the latest catalyst drivers. LINK (if you're not using xp click drivers and software at the top of the page and select your os)
I had this problem recently. The driver update helped, but didn't completely solve the problem. I cleaned the dust bunnies out of my case (fans, slots, intake, etc.), then completely wiped and reloaded everything on my primary drive. Better, but still intermittent crashing occurred. My gaming partition (100GB) was about 85% full, so I freed up about 25% more space on it and defragged it. The problem cleared up. If it hadn't, the next thing I would have tried was replacing the PSU (dirty power under load?).
specs? ok.... AMD athlon 64 proceser 2800+ 1.81GHz 1 gig of ram radeon X1650 and if theres anything else u need to know about my comp, tell me, lol and maybe tell me how to find it :P
oh and when it crashes it will close the game and a window will say that the game "encountered a problem and needs to close" and i can choose to report the error or not, but then never helps if you do anyways....
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