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Guest
Hi,
I have a new pc that I purchased after getting specially built as a games
machine.
Since it arriving Ive had nothing but trouble running games. FTS seem to
give me the most problems. I know that Vista doesnt supposedly like DOOM 3
and Quake( it wouldnt even acknowledge the dvd after installing Quake) but
other games like prey and now bioshock are crashing.
What happens is, as im playing the game, and this happens on each game in
the same way, so its not the games as such, they freeze after maybe a few
minutes or half an hour depending on the game, and then the screen goes blank
leaving me no option but to reboot and then get the option to go into safety
mode if I want.
Prey is intolerant and gives me blue screen in a window. Doom3 lets me play
for a while when I make it windows xp compatible and run it as an
administrator which I do for most games.
Company of heroes runs fine but did crash once. Also on the later levels of
command and conquer3, 'that' crashes when the action and amount of vehicles
and buildings on screen got cluttered, but not when I play the earlier levels
with less activity on screen. My specs should handle the demands im placing
on it. PES 6 goes for a while, but will grash eventually.
Most disappointingly of all, after paying £30 for bioshock and it needing my
pcs specs to run, it only lasts about a minute before it goes wrong aswell.
This was soooo disappointing as I thought that a Vista ready game would be
fine......
Ive read lots of theories on the subject of vista and nvidia compatibility,
but a friend of mine has pretty much the same specs on his machine, including
Vista and prey runs fine.
Ive tried taking away the latest security updates I receive online as that
seemed to make things worse when I installed them.
My specs are:
athlon 64 x 2 dual core processor 3800+2.16 ghz
2 GB of ram memory
nvidia geforce 8800 gts 640 mg graphics card
MS Vista 32 bit
hard drives 160gb +80gb on other
Can someone come up with any solutions as Im at my wits end. Ive always
preferred the pc to the consoles as Ive always felt that it was a better
platform, but xbox bioshock never does this to its customers as it would die
a death in no time.
Ill try anything. Im even thinking of having Xp installed on my other hard
drive as I don't think my OS and Nvidia card like each other....
I have a new pc that I purchased after getting specially built as a games
machine.
Since it arriving Ive had nothing but trouble running games. FTS seem to
give me the most problems. I know that Vista doesnt supposedly like DOOM 3
and Quake( it wouldnt even acknowledge the dvd after installing Quake) but
other games like prey and now bioshock are crashing.
What happens is, as im playing the game, and this happens on each game in
the same way, so its not the games as such, they freeze after maybe a few
minutes or half an hour depending on the game, and then the screen goes blank
leaving me no option but to reboot and then get the option to go into safety
mode if I want.
Prey is intolerant and gives me blue screen in a window. Doom3 lets me play
for a while when I make it windows xp compatible and run it as an
administrator which I do for most games.
Company of heroes runs fine but did crash once. Also on the later levels of
command and conquer3, 'that' crashes when the action and amount of vehicles
and buildings on screen got cluttered, but not when I play the earlier levels
with less activity on screen. My specs should handle the demands im placing
on it. PES 6 goes for a while, but will grash eventually.
Most disappointingly of all, after paying £30 for bioshock and it needing my
pcs specs to run, it only lasts about a minute before it goes wrong aswell.
This was soooo disappointing as I thought that a Vista ready game would be
fine......
Ive read lots of theories on the subject of vista and nvidia compatibility,
but a friend of mine has pretty much the same specs on his machine, including
Vista and prey runs fine.
Ive tried taking away the latest security updates I receive online as that
seemed to make things worse when I installed them.
My specs are:
athlon 64 x 2 dual core processor 3800+2.16 ghz
2 GB of ram memory
nvidia geforce 8800 gts 640 mg graphics card
MS Vista 32 bit
hard drives 160gb +80gb on other
Can someone come up with any solutions as Im at my wits end. Ive always
preferred the pc to the consoles as Ive always felt that it was a better
platform, but xbox bioshock never does this to its customers as it would die
a death in no time.
Ill try anything. Im even thinking of having Xp installed on my other hard
drive as I don't think my OS and Nvidia card like each other....