Hi, The two games I have recently been playing are CS:S and Warcraft three, after a while of playing the sound on the game freezes on one bit of noise and the screen freezes with grey squares everywhere. I thought it was a cooling problem to begin with as my CPU was getting as hot as 80 degrees celsius, but I fitted a new fan and now average about 30 degrees celsius, even when playing games. When I put in the fan I refitted the whole case, and for a few days after that I had no crashing problems, but now they have come back. I don't know what is useful so I will just list everything. Graphics card: ATI Radeon 4870 PSU: Enermax Liberty 620W CPU: Core 2 Quad 2.66MHz MB: Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 RAM: 4GB DDR3 Corsair My graphics card averages about 66 degrees celsius. I don't know if I connected the power to the card wrong, it was supplied with a connector which plugged into the card and then is powered by molex. But when I turned the computer on a message displayed saying I needed to plug another cable in, so I plugged one of my PSU's PCI-E cables directly into the other empty slot on the graphics card. EDIT: I just ran memtest86+ and it found no errors. Any help will be useful!
Hi recursive The temps mentioned sound fine to me, getting artifacts (grey squares, lines on screen) usually means something is wrong with the graphics card. Try lowering the graphics quality settings, e.g. draw distance, image quality, resolution etc. Have you updated the graphics drivers?
Hi, I couldn't remember if I had reinstalled the drivers, bit I did so again last night. After playing for about an hour I got artifacts again, this time grey lines all across the screen. And do you mean for me to lower the graphics quality settings as a fix, or to test if it solves/ reduces the problem? Thanks for the reply.
Just to do a basic test really, as the graphics card has to work harder with higher resolutions, quality settings etc, this isnt meant as fix so let us know if the problem persists.
I lowered all graphics settings in WCIII from high to medium, and the resolution from 1600x1200x32 to 1280x1024x32. I had two 45 minute games with no crashes, which is longer than normal. Does this mean anything?
Its too early to tell, you need to play longer if possible. If it doesn't crash it could mean; * PSU is unable to handle the power requirements * Overheated during load (the temps you mention seem fine, what are the load temps?) * Incompatability or driver issues.
Hi I played for about 2 hours on CS:S with the same resolution change (1600x1200 down to 1280x1024) and everything was fine. It appears that the lower resolution stops the crashes, what does this mean?
