Hello, friends.
Okay, well, I had a P IV before, with a GeForce Fx5500, I ran FFXI with no problems at all!
I recently purchased a Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz PC, 2 GB DDR II RAM, 320 GB HDD, Nvidia 7600GT Gfx card, WinXP Pro.
Obviously, the game looked much sweeter than what the FX5500 used to churn out..
But, I never really played the game for long enough. Three days ago, after joining a party, I experienced a long freeze.. and I mean ranging from 10-15 seconds. Mp3s started looping, mouse and keyboard weren't responding, and FFXI of course, was also unresponsive.
According to one of the party members, I had the Red Bubble of death over my head (disconnection icon). So, I decided to disconnect, exit playonline, and reconnect.
But, to no avail. The freeze would occur every 20-30 mins or so. Its ridiculously annoying! After joining the party, the freeze would occur even in a city / town, as well.
Okay, played yesterday for almost 6 hours, everything was fine, until I joined another Party . This time, the game locked up, and right after the lock-up, I decided to use NvidiaMonitor.
AFTER launching the Nvidia Monitor in the background, my PC started locking the game for 10-15 secs again every 15mins or so, but this time, my entire PC restarts (happened to me 3 times so far). Therefore, I decided to unscrew my PC case, and I think my 300W Power Supply is at fault here. Should I upgrade to a 350W-400W one? The box on my GFX card say "Minimum" requirements = 300W, but we're talking about a power supply here, kinda different from running on the "minimum" required GFX card which just results in grainy graphics...
I have two 12v lines, one says 12v1: 13a, and 12v2: 8a.
I would love to hear some comments, the shop from which I bought the GFX card is slightly far, so I would like to save myself the trip, if necessary.
A faulty card, or shabby power supply?
