Video game freezes during explosions, please help!

[notasmartone]

So I have this video game called Joint Task Force and a while ago it used to run perfectly with medium graphic settings. Now however it freezes during explosions even with the lowest quality settings possible on my PC. One more thing: it also has a map editor which doesn't open, it says file type registration failed. Whatever you need to know tell me ind the comments and I will provide you the information.

 

[woodenbox]

Have you tried re-installing the game? Also, how do system resources look while playing the game? Is everything getting maxed out, or do you have plenty of CPU/GPU/RAM not being used?

 

[notasmartone]

Have you tried re-installing the game? Also, how do system resources look while playing the game? Is everything getting maxed out, or do you have plenty of CPU/GPU/RAM not being used?

Re-installing is the first thing I did. How do I monitor the system resources?

 

[notasmartone]

Holy shit 1,65 GB of my 2 GB of RAM is being used during the game free is only 95 MB, CPU usage is 69% it even went as high as 98%

 

[woodenbox]

Sounds like your system is overloaded. The explosions probably cause resource usage to spike. Do you have a lot of other programs and services running in the background?

 

[notasmartone]

Sounds like your system is overloaded. The explosions probably cause resource usage to spike. Do you have a lot of other programs and services running in the background?

No, I usually try to close as many as possible. Skype mainly, sometimes uTorrent too.

 

[woodenbox]

You can try increasing virtual memory to see if that helps at all. How are you doing on HDD space?

 

[notasmartone]

You can try increasing virtual memory to see if that helps at all. How are you doing on HDD space?

I have 840 GB free on my hard drive.

 

[woodenbox]

Any improvement when you increase virtual memory?

 

[notasmartone]

You can try increasing virtual memory to see if that helps at all. How are you doing on HDD space?

How much should i put into the inital memory box and how much into the maximum box? Also how do I permanently stop some processes I have never seen before?

 

[notasmartone]

Any improvement when you increase virtual memory?

No, but I put 1000 MB as initial memory and 1650 MB as maximum, I think the problem lies there.

 

[woodenbox]

Try setting your maximum to 4096, double the physical RAM you have.

 

[notasmartone]

Try setting your maximum to 4096, double the physical RAM you have.

Well setting the maximum memory to double of the RAM I have didn't work, but could I somehow bring down the RAM usage?

 

[notasmartone]

Make sure that your system meets minimum requirement for playing it. Game may freeze due to less available hard disk, low capacity RAM and processor. So I would suggest you to follow these simple tips to avoid your games from freezing:-

- Disinfect your system using some reliable antivirus program.
- Upgrade hardware (RAM, CPU, graphics card, etc.)
- Uninstall unnecessary programs (Games, crapware, toolbars, etc.)
- Click Start> |Run| Type msconfig > Enter > Start Up. Uncheck the boxes for the programs that you think you may not use often.
- Clean all the junk files, registry errors and all the cache (Must use reliable program like I always use RegInOut for it.)

Thank You 🙂

As I said before, this game used to run prefectly even with medium settings so the problem doesn't lie there.
Could you please tell me a free reliable antivirus program.
I can't afford new hardware due to a thight economic situation.

 

[ronnrenee]

You gotta have a slow rig to not be able to play that game. but I can help.

Try hitting the windows key and r at same time. Type msconfig to bring up the mc utility. Goto startup tab and uncheck everything. Hit apply, ok, and hit the restart button.

You dont need any of these running in the background while you game. They are just programs you would double click to open anyway. They are programs like itunes, quicktime, bloatware, and other third party programs.

If your slow rig ran it before this will help your performance a lot, maybe even better than it ran before.

If this doesnt help, you could have viruses, need a good reg clean, or your rig is about to poop the bed...

 

[ronnrenee]

scan your computer with malwarebytes too, before you install your antivirus. Its free.

 

[crookedmouth]

Also there is a freeware utility called GameBooster which easily shuts down unneeded process while you game. It's not some magical program that will actually boost performance, all it does is make available more of your RAM. It sounds like you need to really go through manually and check out what's eating all your ram but after you do that I find this is a quick way to handle jumping in and out of gaming. If you want to try it, I suggest not using the newest "Razor" version but the older 3.5.6 version. To me the newest version is crap.
GameBooster 3.5.6
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Game-Booster,0301-25567.html

 

[notasmartone]

Make sure that your system meets minimum requirement for playing it. Game may freeze due to less available hard disk, low capacity RAM and processor. So I would suggest you to follow these simple tips to avoid your games from freezing:-

- Disinfect your system using some reliable antivirus program.
- Upgrade hardware (RAM, CPU, graphics card, etc.)
- Uninstall unnecessary programs (Games, crapware, toolbars, etc.)
- Click Start> |Run| Type msconfig > Enter > Start Up. Uncheck the boxes for the programs that you think you may not use often.
- Clean all the junk files, registry errors and all the cache (Must use reliable program like I always use RegInOut for it.)

Thank You 🙂

As I said before, this game used to run prefectly even with medium settings so the problem doesn't lie there.
Could you please tell me a free reliable antivirus program.
I can't afford new hardware due to a thight economic situation.

OK, you can use AVG free version, Avast or NOD32.

scan your computer with malwarebytes too, before you install your antivirus. Its free.

I scanned my PC it found 9 infected files but couldn't remove them because of a incorrect function, any tips?

 

[notasmartone]

Thank you all for helping me, the freezes are less frequent now, but I looked this game up on can you run it and it passed everything with a reserve, so I don't undestand why this game keeps messing with me. Also is there a program which will tell me what kind of RAM do I have so I can buy more?

 

[notasmartone]

Also there is a freeware utility called GameBooster which easily shuts down unneeded process while you game. It's not some magical program that will actually boost performance, all it does is make available more of your RAM. It sounds like you need to really go through manually and check out what's eating all your ram but after you do that I find this is a quick way to handle jumping in and out of gaming. If you want to try it, I suggest not using the newest "Razor" version but the older 3.5.6 version. To me the newest version is crap.
GameBooster 3.5.6
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Game-Booster,0301-25567.html

I dowloaded this gamebooster and could you tell me what the numbers in the left-upper corner show, mine are somewhere around 20, 22 or 24 usually.

 

[ronnrenee]

If you couldn't remove the viruses with avg use malwarebytes. Its free and it will find all the viruses, malware, trojans, and even tracking cookies. Its probably the best tool you can use to remove viruses. Takes 3-10 minutes for a scan and Its free.
www.malwarebytes.org

 

[crookedmouth]

I dowloaded this gamebooster and could you tell me what the numbers in the left-upper corner show, mine are somewhere around 20, 22 or 24 usually.

That is your frames per second(FPS).

 

[notasmartone]

scan your computer with malwarebytes too, before you install your antivirus. Its free.

I did, and it found 0 errors.

 

[notasmartone]

I dowloaded this gamebooster and could you tell me what the numbers in the left-upper corner show, mine are somewhere around 20, 22 or 24 usually.

That is your frames per second(FPS).

Is that low?

 

[notasmartone]

Could my operating system be a problem? Last time I ran this game on Windows xp now I'm running this game on Windows7.