- Nov 6, 2012
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Hey Guys,
I'm having a fairly annoying problem with my Tower PC where no games I try to play work. They all seem to freeze/crash/lag/flicker black/or not load at all.
The catch is that not 12 months ago I was playing these same games on this system just fine. (I stopped for Year 12 studies). Now no games at all will work.
I updated the NVidia drivers, thinking that that was at fault, and that didn't work. I then tried to install the drivers with the clean install method, didn't fix it either.
System Specs are as follows:
Intel Core i7 920 @2.67Ghz.
6GB of Memory (RAM)
DirectX v11
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (Total Available Graphics Memory 3835mb, Dedicated Video Memory 1024mb, Shared System Memory 2811mb)
--Let me know if you need to know anything else
The Games I have which all don't work are:
Just Cause 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty Black Ops
Driver San Fransisco
Burnout Paradise
Portal 2
Need for Speed Undercover
Sims 3
Crash information: Generally the game will open up, get to the main menu, and I'll press "start game", and it will either freeze on the loading page, become completely unresponsive with a black screen, or it will load into the game and lag till it crashes. Burnout Paradise specifically starts showing game elements and flickering before crashing. I found that I could get Modern Warfare to run once, it lagged quite a bit but was slightly playable. I walked around a bit to see what happened, and the whole game froze every few moments. But then I walked into a room and as soon as I stopped facing the outside area the game worked perfectly. No idea why that happened, but perhaps that helps diagnosis 😛
The settings for each game remained on what they were when they last worked 12 months ago, but I've tried to lower the settings completely and it doesn't work.
When Modern Warfare 3 crashed it complained about a Direct X problem. When Driver Sanfransisco crashed I was presented with a tooltip saying "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 306.97 stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
I upgraded to Windows 8 (64x) yesterday, but the problem occurred just the same before and after the upgrade. I was previously on Windows 7 (64x).
If you could help me in any way, that would be so great. I've spent ages trying to fix this to no avail. Next stage is wipe the drive and reinstall everything 🙁
Thanks so much in advance,
Gavin
I'm having a fairly annoying problem with my Tower PC where no games I try to play work. They all seem to freeze/crash/lag/flicker black/or not load at all.
The catch is that not 12 months ago I was playing these same games on this system just fine. (I stopped for Year 12 studies). Now no games at all will work.
I updated the NVidia drivers, thinking that that was at fault, and that didn't work. I then tried to install the drivers with the clean install method, didn't fix it either.
System Specs are as follows:
Intel Core i7 920 @2.67Ghz.
6GB of Memory (RAM)
DirectX v11
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (Total Available Graphics Memory 3835mb, Dedicated Video Memory 1024mb, Shared System Memory 2811mb)
--Let me know if you need to know anything else
The Games I have which all don't work are:
Just Cause 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty Black Ops
Driver San Fransisco
Burnout Paradise
Portal 2
Need for Speed Undercover
Sims 3
Crash information: Generally the game will open up, get to the main menu, and I'll press "start game", and it will either freeze on the loading page, become completely unresponsive with a black screen, or it will load into the game and lag till it crashes. Burnout Paradise specifically starts showing game elements and flickering before crashing. I found that I could get Modern Warfare to run once, it lagged quite a bit but was slightly playable. I walked around a bit to see what happened, and the whole game froze every few moments. But then I walked into a room and as soon as I stopped facing the outside area the game worked perfectly. No idea why that happened, but perhaps that helps diagnosis 😛
The settings for each game remained on what they were when they last worked 12 months ago, but I've tried to lower the settings completely and it doesn't work.
When Modern Warfare 3 crashed it complained about a Direct X problem. When Driver Sanfransisco crashed I was presented with a tooltip saying "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 306.97 stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
I upgraded to Windows 8 (64x) yesterday, but the problem occurred just the same before and after the upgrade. I was previously on Windows 7 (64x).
If you could help me in any way, that would be so great. I've spent ages trying to fix this to no avail. Next stage is wipe the drive and reinstall everything 🙁
Thanks so much in advance,
Gavin
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