SH64
04-14-05, 12:47 AM
I'm getting some weird crashes & lockups in games ..
1) Its random .. could happen to any game anytime.
2) Usually the crash/lockup happens just the time i make an action .. like start firing or someone is about to talk & sometimes even without an action!
& in particular cases with explosions .. that happend in HL2/FarCry/Doom3 . right before an explosion happens the game either crash or lockup.
if it crashed & i replayed the game again & did the same action it crashes again until i reboot . though this only happens with explosions , but not the other cases where it usually works fine afterwards.
3) It could happen after 5 min of gaming & could happen after 1 hour & sometimes i dont get any at all.
for ex. in BIA i had a lockup once in 1st level & i didnt get any afterwards till i finished the game.
4) The crahses/lockups solely occur in games.
what do you think ?? could it be hardware , software , SLI issue or what ?
specs in sig (SLI PC) . i'm using 71.84 official & didnt try other drivers so far.
all crashes/lockups occured while i was in SLI mode & even if i try Single GPU it will be really hard to find out if that had something to do with it because as i said its random & sometimes does not happen for days.
& BTW i think my RAM sticks are fine because i took them from my older PC & they were in great condition & never caused a problem in that PC.
1) Its random .. could happen to any game anytime.
2) Usually the crash/lockup happens just the time i make an action .. like start firing or someone is about to talk & sometimes even without an action!
& in particular cases with explosions .. that happend in HL2/FarCry/Doom3 . right before an explosion happens the game either crash or lockup.
if it crashed & i replayed the game again & did the same action it crashes again until i reboot . though this only happens with explosions , but not the other cases where it usually works fine afterwards.
3) It could happen after 5 min of gaming & could happen after 1 hour & sometimes i dont get any at all.
for ex. in BIA i had a lockup once in 1st level & i didnt get any afterwards till i finished the game.
4) The crahses/lockups solely occur in games.
what do you think ?? could it be hardware , software , SLI issue or what ?
specs in sig (SLI PC) . i'm using 71.84 official & didnt try other drivers so far.
all crashes/lockups occured while i was in SLI mode & even if i try Single GPU it will be really hard to find out if that had something to do with it because as i said its random & sometimes does not happen for days.
& BTW i think my RAM sticks are fine because i took them from my older PC & they were in great condition & never caused a problem in that PC.