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Sivian · 09-30-2009, 10:36 AM

I just bought a new PC in the last two weeks. Dell, Vista, Intel Dual Core 2.7, 6GB Ram, and I bought an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT graphics card for it.

I had been playing Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 2, the trial for Lord of the Rings Online, and Sins of a Solar Empire fine for about a week. After that the Lord of the Rings Online gave me a blue screen and reset my computer, I tried to play again a little later and from then on after playing the game anytime for about 3 minutes to a half an hour my computer would freeze in the game and make a crackling noise from the speakers. I would have to shut off my computer. This was the only game with the problem and I read that a lot of people had problems with this game, everything else worked fine.

Three days later (today) I was playing Warhammer for about an hour and it worked with no problems. I continued playing the game later and it froze the same way LOTR does, I reset and tried again and the same happened after about 2-3 minutes of being in the game.

When I was looking for answers to problems for LOTR I read a post where the guy said to download nTune and to change an option for the fan to either help with overheating or to see if that caused the problem. I downloaded that program and am able to open it but whenever I go to accept the agreement under the performance menu I click on agree, get the blue screen and my computer resets, the same way it did for LOTR the first time. There is also an Nvidia Monitor icon on my desktop, if I click on that I also get the blue screen and reset.

After the problem started I also saw someone say to redownload the drivers for the graphics card, in a help forum for LOTR online. I don't know if I had done that in the first place so I did that. Same problems but when I play games after that all the text is moved to far to the left and to high up, so it cuts off some words if they are put near the top or the left side, how do I fix that? Also LOTR Online now allowed me to use Direct X10, so I guess I probably didn't have those downloaded in the first place when the game was working fine or when the problems started.

No problems with Sins of a Solar Empire, yet, but I haven't tried it in the last two days. So it was working after the first problems started, like Warhammer, but I don't know if it will now.

09-30-2009, 10:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sivian Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 10 OS: Windows Vista	Games are freezing when I try to play them I just bought a new PC in the last two weeks. Dell, Vista, Intel Dual Core 2.7, 6GB Ram, and I bought an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT graphics card for it. I had been playing Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 2, the trial for Lord of the Rings Online, and Sins of a Solar Empire fine for about a week. After that the Lord of the Rings Online gave me a blue screen and reset my computer, I tried to play again a little later and from then on after playing the game anytime for about 3 minutes to a half an hour my computer would freeze in the game and make a crackling noise from the speakers. I would have to shut off my computer. This was the only game with the problem and I read that a lot of people had problems with this game, everything else worked fine. Three days later (today) I was playing Warhammer for about an hour and it worked with no problems. I continued playing the game later and it froze the same way LOTR does, I reset and tried again and the same happened after about 2-3 minutes of being in the game. When I was looking for answers to problems for LOTR I read a post where the guy said to download nTune and to change an option for the fan to either help with overheating or to see if that caused the problem. I downloaded that program and am able to open it but whenever I go to accept the agreement under the performance menu I click on agree, get the blue screen and my computer resets, the same way it did for LOTR the first time. There is also an Nvidia Monitor icon on my desktop, if I click on that I also get the blue screen and reset. After the problem started I also saw someone say to redownload the drivers for the graphics card, in a help forum for LOTR online. I don't know if I had done that in the first place so I did that. Same problems but when I play games after that all the text is moved to far to the left and to high up, so it cuts off some words if they are put near the top or the left side, how do I fix that? Also LOTR Online now allowed me to use Direct X10, so I guess I probably didn't have those downloaded in the first place when the game was working fine or when the problems started. No problems with Sins of a Solar Empire, yet, but I haven't tried it in the last two days. So it was working after the first problems started, like Warhammer, but I don't know if it will now.