PC CD ROM Games crash & freeze?

Question

Please help me get some peace & quiet....!
My young Billy-the-Ninja Warrior wannabe has two or three PC CD ROM Games that, when he plays on the desk top run for about ten or twenty minuites then freeze or crash with no error message. One in particular, WARHAMMER 40,000 Dawn of War - Winter Assault, is perticularly prone to this flaw. Any ideas as to why?
I'm running XP & Norton Internet Security 2006 ( for now!). is this a firewall issue? I doubt it as he does not game on line. I've tried removing & re-installing to no avail.

Answer 1

A huge range of things could be the cause of your crashes.
If your getting kicked after 20 mins or so, here is a small list of the probable causes but without more info on your hardware its hard to make a diagnosis.

Not enough ram. Minimum recomended is usually 1 gig.
Is your processor powerful enough.
Is your computer overheating.
Is your graphics card powerfull enough.
Do have the latest video card drivers installed.
Sound cards are notorious for causing game crashes so make sure its working properly and has the latest drivers installed.

Hope this helps a little.

Answer 2

Computer freezing is just a symptom of underlying serious problems with your operating system; and two possible causes for such occurrence are Virus/Malware and System/Registry Errors. You need to download any good cleaning software such as RegInOut for cleaning your system. Assuming that you have Anti-Virus installed. Also look into the possibility of downloading MalwareBytes. Run scan of all software’s and you would be done with the issue of freezing/lag etc

Answer 3

first,
make sure that the disk is clean
then if that does not work try re installing it

Answer 4

Try to clean it, if that doesn't work, your computer must be not good enough for it.

Answer 5

Hell yes