Game Freeze

[Jebus]

I bought a new computer last year with vista on it.  I totally formatted my computer and put Windows Xp.  My computer 2.4 processor with 2 gigs of ram on it.  I recently up dated my video card to a nivdia 8500 I can play the game for about an hour or so and then the game freezes.  It ends up with me looking up with either night or just blue sky.  I can to anything I have to hit the button in the front of the computer to turn it off and restart it.  I thought it was my power supply so I up graded it to 500mghz.  I played the game today and it freezed with in a half hour.  The same thing it looks up and I have to hit the button on the front to turn off the computer.  I am a computer dummy and need help.  Any little help would be great


I just want to play my game 

[kilz]

how about some system specs. click start bar then click run and type in DxDiag then click run and it will bring up a report. save it then copy the first 1/3rd of it and post it here. will help us understand you system a little better.

[Jebus]

sorry about that.  Hope this helps kilz and thanks for being so patient with me.


Time of this report: 4/3/2008, 06:38:21
   Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
       System Model: RK574AA-ABA a1730n
               BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
          Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+,  MMX,  3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
             Memory: 2046MB RAM
          Page File: 209MB used, 3729MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

[Balsy]

I bought a new computer last year with vista on it.  I totally formatted my computer and put Windows Xp.  My computer 2.4 processor with 2 gigs of ram on it.  I recently up dated my video card to a nivdia 8500 I can play the game for about an hour or so and then the game freezes.  It ends up with me looking up with either night or just blue sky.  I can to anything I have to hit the button in the front of the computer to turn it off and restart it.  I thought it was my power supply so I up graded it to 500mghz.  I played the game today and it freezed with in a half hour.  The same thing it looks up and I have to hit the button on the front to turn off the computer.  I am a computer dummy and need help.  Any little help would be great


I just want to play my game 

Sounds like a heat issue... have you checked temps after a half hour of vid card, MB, or CPU?

[Jebus]

Sorry Basley I dont know how to check my temps on my computer.  When my computer freezes I put my hand by the computer and the air coming from it is cold.

[Chalenge]

AMD Dual core needs to have the patch applied but I think Windows 98 compatibility mode should be used anyway because even with the patch installed AMD caused issues for me.

[Jebus]

Yesterday I tried Skuzzy link for AMD  http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,199451.0.html.


But when i did that I started to get the spinning clip board and my game would freeze right way (never had that problem before).  I then tried running it in Windows98/me mode but the game shut off right when i got on the runway and the computer restarted.

I downloaded speedfan to see if it is a over heating problem.  I am going to work so I will be unable to test it out untill later this afternoon.

[Jebus]

Sounds like a heat issue... have you checked temps after a half hour of vid card, MB, or CPU?

So i ran speed fan after an hour of flying and the game freezing and locking up.  I restarted my computer and ran speedfan.  Everything was around 40c except my core 2 (which is my nividia graphics card).  That was around 53c.  Would that be over heating and if so how do i solve that??

[IronDog]

Your video card will run a little warmer than cpu.53 is isn't all that bad...mine runsabout 47 celcius.Do you know how to check to see how many processes you are running?I believe your problem is not having the fixes for the spinning clipboard done correctly,our you have a process running that is giving you problems.Skuzzy has a nice article on the AMD dual cores.Hope this helps.
IronDog

[Hamltnblue]

Best way to check for overheating is to remove the computer side and place a small table fan facing it. If the problem clears it's heat.  make sure that your video card fan is spinninga and not full of dust also.