Whenever I'm playing a game, the game will crash at random points.?

Question

Don't ask me what messages I'm getting because it's different for every game. Some of the games that I play are Everquest, Oblivion, Warcraft 3, Neverwinter Nights 2. All of these crash at random points. I have the updated drivers for my video card. Here are my specs to help YOU, help ME.

Windows XP
AMD Athlon(tm) , MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
1024MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS

Please help! My games are unplayable, rendering my computer almost useless!!! I have updated video card driver, Spybot and lavasoft anti-virus, and i regularly disk clean-up and defrag when needed.

HEEEEELP!

Answer 1

I don't think your problem has anything to do with a virus or trojan...
Have you tried re-installing the latest DirectX runtime files?
Perhaps your computer is overheating. Open up the computer and see if the CPU fan is clogged with dust. Use a can of compressed air to clean the CPU fan & heatsink. Also, check your video card's fan.

If that didn't help:
Assuming that your hard drive is fine (no bad sectors, and the file system has no errors), then you can try this:
Disable your internet connection and load up one of your games. Lower the screen resolution and set all the 3D features of the game to their lowest values (or disable them). If all goes well, then only modify each setting until the game crashes. Perhaps a particular 3D setting is crashing your computer.
If you can play the game with all the 3D settings at the previous level, then your problem has to do with your network connection. (If you're playing multi-player)

Answer 2

Whats incorrect is your show driving force has failed because of the severe volume of severe grapgics the driving force has to show as a manner to superb this you need to no longer set up any Sims video games and get rid of all your video games yet save the information and reinstall them once you have deleted each and every little thing on your pics show driving force.

Answer 3

sounds more of a heating problem to me.
Maybe your video card is defective. I know NVIDIA has lifetime warranty.
Maybe you can call them up.
I had an ATI and it kept lagging. Frezzing for 5 seconds then back to normal it was from video card. I'm gonna shoot for the video card it might be defective or something.

Answer 4

Hi. Use 'Task manager' to stop any programs you do not need from running in the background. Make sure you have enough RAM, usually a gig is OK, so this is probably not your problem. Make sure your CPU and GPU are running cool enough.