Gaming Freezes

[Donutz]

I just set up a new Athlon 64 754 pin system. I am running a 3000+ processor. 1Gig of ballistics ram, Geforce 4 Ti 4800 se graphics card, 550 watt power supply, and a western 120 G 7200 Rpm hard drive. I used to run the graphics card in my older XP system and it ran great with games such as Raven Shield...now that I built this new system, the game will tend to freeze up here and there for about 10 seconds at a time...sometimes it will not freeze up at all and other times it seems to freeze up a lot. I just downloaded a demo of Swat 4 and the game constatly freezes up...I even turned the graphics down low..... Most, if not all, of my drivers have been updated...I believe there are not any more updates as of yet....like I said, my old system seemed to run fine....any suggestions or clues as to what I might need to look at or do? Thanks a lot,

Donutz

 

[meltdown75]

Hi there...

Geforce 4 Ti 4800 se graphics card

^ That is the only thing that stands out to me when I see your specs. Curious - have you reinstalled the title(s) you are playing since setting up your new system? Debcribe the 'freezing' - would you say it's an audio or graphics issue? Do you defrag? How about any additional software running in the background?

 

[Donutz]

I have reinstalled all the titles with my new system...the freezing is just the graphics and just on the games...they will frezze for only a couple seconds then come out...so if it is in a session when it is frozen, I can press my windows key, and as soon as it unfreezes it puts me back into windows...nothing will freeze up while I am in windows...but the game will still be running, just minimized. I just defraged last night and I don't have anything running in the back ground on swat...but on raven I have team speak running....the only thing that really gets me is this graphics card has not given any problems with my older XP system...

 

[meltdown75]

Hmm. Check your BIOS settings and make sure the AGP is set to 8x and not 4x. Aperture size doesn't really matter but I prefer 128 or half of the memory I have on my video card. I've never played either of those titles but I'd be checking the site to make sure it's not a game-specific issue or something that could have newly arisen due to your new specs - for example compatibility with your new audio / video setup.

 

[Kaspian]

check the fan/heat sink of the graphics card...... i had a similar problem with my games with the freezing/locking up every so often....the fan on the card was loaded with so much "dust bunnies" that it could hardly spin......i replaced it with a bigger one.......