A shot in the dark i know, but i'm a little ticked.
My PC's worked fine up until a few weeks ago i was happily playing half life 2 (the new eps 1) then suddenly it just blinked out and i could hear the music in the background looping over the same beat! this continued to happen, and yesterday i bought Prey, five minutes in - the same.
So yep i know this could be one in a million things and probably some virus hidden deep in the bottom of my drive but any suggestions?
Please don't suggest it's a hardware problem, i have a very high spec PC that can run Oblivion, half life, fear and the like in the highest settings perfect. (that is up until a few weeks ago) so there must be something else happening.
It's probably a virus, though i've just finished a full sys-scan with Norton (all definitions updated) and it came up with two problems that i said were cleaned, but still the problem happens, any ideas?
To recap:
5 mins in - blinks out.
Sound loops / jitters away.
??
2006-07-23 12:46:38 · 4 answers · asked by thedaveidentity 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
PLEASE TELL ME WHY SOME A-HOLES JUST FAIL TO READ THE QUESTIONS!!
update the game!
IT HAPPENS ON MORE THAN ONE GAME!!!
update the drivers!!!
I JUST SAID I WAS ABLE TO RUN HALFLIFE 2 FINE UP UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO!! IF I NEEDED TO UPDATE THE DRIVERS THEN IT WOULDN'T HAVE WORKED PREVIOUSLY!!!
MEMORY!!!!!!!!
2 gig not enough??????!!!!!!
Though the fans, now that could be a lead :-)
2006-07-23 20:32:36 · update #1
1. check out the fans, something is heating up?!
2. I'm gonna jump way out there, now, and say that I suspect you are running Microsoft's virus magnet?!
That probably says it all.
Unix clones like BSD and GNU/Linux run all of the game servers, the 'Internet', Tier 1 servers, Tier 3 servers; Microsoft.com, Hotmail.com, (both run on 15,000 Linux servers, each), and Yahoo runs on FreeBSD, while 100,000 Google.com servers cluster in Linux...
I think it is well nigh time that you learned about the real gaming OSes, that are FREE, and don't crash.
http://pclinuxos.com for the LiveCDrom that doesn't need a hard drive to run! But, you can install in 20 - 40 minutes. Contains 1,600 games, programs, apps....
Most the games, Quake servers, all the Hollywood movies since "Titanic - 1997", are done in Linux, or, MAC OS X (DarwinBSD) for "Shrek2".
Gaming lists, here: http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/
Gaming OS: http://transgaming.org/
You might have to do a bit of learning, to get it all switched over, though you can still go back to the virus magnet, on occasion!
2006-07-23 13:04:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you gone to the website for the game and seen if there might not be a lot of people having the same problem? Sometimes games are released and they have bugs, so the company releases a patch. I'm sure you've checked, but, never hurts to ask..
2006-07-23 19:51:55 · answer #2 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you updated your graphic cards drivers or directx?
It's quite possible it's them. I had the same problem running games on my old computer.
If not that, trying looking for game updates on the official site.
2006-07-23 19:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you need more RAM. Close all running applications that you don't need.
2006-07-23 19:57:39 · answer #4 · answered by Burnsie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋