Momentary freezing in games

[PBMangan]

This problem just appeared while playing Doom 3, the game freezes and the audio continually skips then it will advance a frame of two then hang, then it's back to normal for a while. All my games were playing fine, now the problem has spread to all 3-d games.

I updated video drivers, chipset drivers, updated windows, defragged the harddrive scanned for adware, spyware and viruses. Reinstalled directx, Tested memory, cleaned the registry. Nothing is working wtf? Help please?

 

[GullyFoyle]

Overheating video card? Do you have a program to monitor the temperature?

 

[tyler811]

Pc specs chief but you did not say you updated sound drives. Many times games will start freaking and many people blame it the video card or spyware.

The best investment I made was a SB Audigy 2 then an X-Fi. Fixed me right and by the looping sound this might be your problem.

 

[HeXploiT]

Normally something like this would be attributed to slow drive/lack of ram.
Wouldn't be surprised if you had a problem with one or the other that you have yet to discover.

 

[Calculator83]

Originally posted by: Perry404
Normally something like this would be attributed to slow drive/lack of ram.
Wouldn't be surprised if you had a problem with one or the other that you have yet to discover.

Yea,, u need more ramz

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was your PSU. What PSU are you using with your 7600GT SLI setup?

 

[coloumb]

Randomly freezing problems are a PITA to troubleshoot as it could be ANYTHING in your system.

Replace the thermal compound between the gpu fan and gpu
replace the thermal compound between cpu fan and cpu
Power supply - Buy a PSU you can return to a store - install psu and see if the problem goes away.
Re-seat the memory modules
Verify all cable connections are secure
Verify all cooling fans are working properly [gpu, cpu, case, psu, etc]
Try running the system with the side cover removed [maybe one of your cooling fans isn't working properly].
A component on the motherboard might be failing [due to heat generated while playing games]