Game Freezes

[joeheathuk]

RECENTLY UPGARDED VIDEO CARD TO GEFORCE4X 440 AND 448MB OF RAM, AND HAVE ALL THE LATEST DRIVERS AND UP TO DATE DIRECTX. HOWEVER SINCE THE UPDATE I HAVNT BEEN ABLE TO PLAY ANY GAMES INCLUDING MEDEIVIL TOTAL WAR AND COUNTERSTRIKE, HOWEVER AGE OF EMPIRES STILL PLAYS WITH NO PROBS. THE GAMES EITHER DONT PLAY, FREEZE OR THE BLUE WINDOWS ERROR PAGE APPEARS. I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS COMON WITH TOTAL WAR GAMES BUT NOT COUNTERSTRIKE. I TRIED TO CHANGE THE AGP APERTURE SIZE (WHICH I'VE BEEN TOLD IS A POSSIBLE CURE) BUT MY BIOS DOES NOT HAVE ANY SETTINGS TO DO SO AND COMPAQ ADV ME THAT IT CANT BE DONE. I HAVE A COMPAQ PRESARIO 5000 WITH A VIA CHIPSET MOBO RUNNING WINDOWS98SE. ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREAT BECAUSE I'M AT AND END HERE!!

MANY THANKS

 

[I Fix 4 U]

do you have the latest directx 9c ps in the future dont use all caps as it is considered shouting and rude.

 

[joeheathuk]

sorry, just pissed off with these games. its been happenin alot with activision games but there is no support. yeah have dierctx 9c. puzzled?
thanks

 

[I Fix 4 U]

run directx diagnostics by going to run and typing dxdiag. there try all of the tests for directx video and sound etc.

 

[joeheathuk]

yip got it. all is in order but problem persists.
thanks

 

[joeheathuk]

yip all in order. no problems with directx.

 

[I Fix 4 U]

is it all activision games or just some games and by different companies.

 

[joeheathuk]

apparently it is a lot of activision games call of duty total war etc... if you go to the total war forums at http://p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotalwarfrm2 there are alot of similar cases to mine but no solutions......

 

[I Fix 4 U]

i'll look into it.

 

[Normal_crimi]

In the DirectX Diagnostic tool, make sure everything in DirectX Features is enabled. If you've already done that then try changing your settings in the nVidia Control Panel.

 

[The_PC_Gamer]

Try nVidia's website, write to the support. Maybe They'll provide anything valuabe. If not, might as well exchange the card (MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO SIMILAR PROBLEMS first)

 

[Monk]

What are the specs on your computer system? Are you overclocking anything at all?

 

[upl1nk]

hum mm I've seen that happen... try removing one of the RAM DIMS and then run the game and see if it crashes...

 

[joeheathuk]

Hi sorry i havnt re posted. I eventually got the game working. I'm not too sure what i done exactly. I turned the monitor refresh rate down to 60 Hz and also the hardware acceleration down a notch along with the audio acceleration. Also i couldn't change my agp aperture setting in bios and the maximum the game would let me change it to was 32mb, so the game in battle mode goes pretty slow at times, but not to worry. My comp is pretty old so there must have been a compatibilty issue with my new graphics card being too good for my system or something along those lines. Well all being the game has been working well but i just have to see if the rest of them work as good.

thanks

 

[I Fix 4 U]

well try a few things out and make sure it works, then try and figure out what you did. the point of this place is so others can benefit off of the questions and solutions. then we can just report this thread as solved.