[MaxAvidy]

I put this on a hardware forum, but I think it might be vista related.

Well here's the scoop. I have, what I thought was, A very good system. Unfortunetly games keep on crashing. HL2, Supreme Commander, you name it, it seems to crash. I get Runtime Errors. Sometimes that my memory is full. Game freezes. And sometimes the whole thing just exits. (not to mention that vista keeps crashing explorer and I find myself constantly having to restart the explorer.exe application. I'm running the 64-bit version of ultimate just for reference. My brother, who has a much less powerful system does not have the FPS problems that I have. For instance, playing Garry's Mod on HL2 if I'm facing away from the action I'll be getting close to 300 fps, but when I turn towards the minimal stuff going on I'll get 9fps while my brother on his stock dell (not even an XPS) gets maybe 25 to 30. Also for some reason or another my ping will shoot up at the same time.

All in all I'm pretty p.o'ed that I spent this money on quality parts and nothing seems to be working right. and yes i've updated drivers reinstalled... reformated. The computers sees all my equipment, recognizes my 8 gig of ram and my two video cards (SLI does do the much extra when I turned it on)

Thanks for any help in getting my system to live up to what it's made up of.



System:


Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Windsor 2.8GHz Socket AM2 Processor Model ADAFX62

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate DVD

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

2 -EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

SeaSonic M12 700W Power Supply

2 - G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

2 - PHILIPS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner

ASUS 22" 2ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor

Antec ATX Mid Tower

Logitech THX Z-5300e 280 Watts RMS 5.1 Speaker

[DaveA]

I do NOT think it is a hardware or a Vista issue, it is a issue with the Games.

Which of these games were DESIGNED to run on Vista and/or a 64 bit machine?

I think you should check with the GAME makers and see if they have a FIX or two for their products. This goes for the online games as well.

You gamers went through this when XP came out, the old 98 games just did not run that well.

[MaxAvidy]

Supreme Commander was supposedly a "made for vista game." That and my friends who are using vista, including my brother have vista and they don't have any problems, so it is something unique to my system.

[DaveA]

Are these other systems 64 bit as you state that yours is?

Do you have Vista64 drivers for ALL of your hardware?

[MaxAvidy]

Yes and Yes.

[jrbuergel]

Try removing half your installed RAM memory, so its down to only 4 GB, and re-seat those memory modules firmly as well. It may sound strange, but this may help, also open the case and check that all the connections are fully pushed in and correct. Also you can run a full system diagnostic test on all the computer's hardware components, since just one faulty item can really cause some problems. Have you checked for any specific error messages?

[Rich-M]

Is your ram MODEL # amongst these listed on this page:
http://www.memory-configurator.co.uk...a-Edition.html