DEP Stops Me From Playing My Games.
Jan 27, 2009
with all the latest games I have bought (gta IV and mirror's edge) I get DEP errors. I tried to exclude them from DEP but my vista won't accept it. So now every ten minutes my games freeze up. What can I do about it? I've read some artikels about shutting of DEP completely. I'm wondering though what that will mean for my security. On some other forums it has been implied that the DEP errors have something to do with faulty hardware.
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Mar 23, 2008
Windows Media Center will stop playing recorded tv. It says it is searching for a solution, and then restarts media center. This seems to happen over and over. It records fine, just does not play through. I am using Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 (build 6001) installed in a Board: ASUSTek Computer INC. M2NPV-VM 1.xx Bus Clock: 200 megahertz. BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS M2NPV-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 1201 09/20/2007. Processor is 2.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Display is NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT [Display adapter] ACR Acer AL2216W [Monitor] (22.0"vis, s/n L74090386340, July 2007) Multimedia is Creative SB Audigy 4 (WDM)
Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II (Encoder/Decoder) I had hoped service pack 1 would solve this problem, but it is no better if not worse.
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Topic pretty much says it all. It happens when I play numerous games - Counter-Strike, Warcraft III, etc. This has never happened when I had Windows XP. I've searched the forums for a solution but have yet to find one. I'm using 'Win Optimizer' right now and I still get spikes (more frequent as of lately). Anyone know a "fix" or solution for this problem?
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Sep 10, 2008
I've had a terrible problem with my computer. I have no idea what the specific problem is (despite hours of troubleshooting), so I'm goign to explain everything as much as I can.I used Vista Ultimate 32-bit for months on my machine and had no problems at all, everything worked great. Then, about 2 months ago, I switched to Vista Ultimate 64-bit because i figured I might as well get all I can out of my CPU. Everything worked fine at first, no major problems. My games and everything else worked just fine. But then, one day (about a month after installing x64), I got this terribly weird lag while playing one of my games. Here's how it always works: The game starts up just like normal and will play normally for a decent amount of time.
Then, all of a sudden, it starts lagging TERRIBLY. My frame-rate drops to almost nothing and my CPU goes up to 80-100%. After a while, the lagging goes away and everything's perfectly smooth, but the the same lagging and CPU rise happens again for a while and then goes away again. It's like a pattern. The sessions of lag generally last a full 1-2 minutes. After this problem first occurred, it never went away. I soon noticed that it didn't just apply to video games either. The rise in CPU usage and the video lag on my screen seemed to happen in a constant pattern no matter what I was doing.....
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Apr 12, 2008
When playing a variety of games, they will shut down on their own at no specific point of the game. Games this has happened to include: Zoo Tycoon 2, NHL08, Railroad Tycoon Platinum & Sim City 3000 Unlimited. Of course all newly created data from the last save is lost.
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Mar 9, 2010
I have been experiencing this problem for some time and am now getting frustrated, Whilst playing several games, Halo 2, Burnout paradise and a few others my pc lags dredfully, to the extent that the games are unplayable, The PC gives a sound indication as if theres a USB device being removed then added continually which is what appears to be causeing the lag but i have not found any way to stop this can anyone help.am running vista home premium 64bit.
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May 15, 2010
When I first got my computer, it worked just fine, I played all my games such as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and WoW on the fullest settings without a problem. Then a few months later it began restarting after anywhere between 30 mins to 1hour+ of playing. I called the makers of my computer, we tried to see if it was overheating but it wasnt, I also tested the videocards, it wasnt that either. Then, out of nowhere it fixed itself for a few months, then out of nowhere it happened again. I restored my computer to an earlier time and it worked for a few days and now it's restarting again.
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Jul 9, 2009
I have a problem with my computer every time I watch videos or play games BSOD shows up showing 0x00000124 other times it can happen randomly!
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Oct 14, 2009
can anyone tell me if its possible to change the generic Vista keyboards shortcuts? I'm having problems playing games (WOW in articular) where I hit Alt F4 or Alt TAB and it takes me out of the game, quite frustrating! I know it will most likely be easier to change in game setup but im hoping to be able to disable the Vista shortcuts or at least disable them for this program etc
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Aug 28, 2008
My operating system is Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit with SP1. The computer downloads the majority of BF2 until the end of the 3rd cd then stops and doesn't say error or anything. It won't allow me to download a patch for BF2 either because it can't specify the file BF2 is in. When I start BF2 it says it can't start up because some file wasn't found and I have to reinstall the application. Which I have tried mucho but won't download the whole shin dig. In the quick info of BF2 where it has the minimum system requirements it doesn't recognize the OS and says that requirement failed but everything else is just peachy.
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Jun 21, 2009
i have this new HPnotebook with a core2 3Gram, ATI 512..When i play games, switch user, my taskbar enlarges and shrinks respectively.. look at the image.. does the resolution of my PC have to do with this? or vista is at fault? or HP is at fault? or me? what to do, HP customer care dont know what they are doing.. Also, they didn't review my specs before sending new solutions.. Giving drivers not compatible for my notebook. I dont know what to do, after i play a game, whether its an officially licensed game or a cracked game. And when i change user, it shrinks.. look at the image..
#1, normal size of taskbar..
#2, size after switching users..
#3, size after playing games..
let if HP is at fault, let this be warning to everyone.. I bought this notebook because i love gaming, but gaming is one of the problem that arises in this model and brand..
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Aug 22, 2008
I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced these annoying freezes that occur randomly in Vista 64. It can happen while I'm playing a game, it can happen while I'm browsing firefox etc. I freeze up about 4 times a day and the only solution is a hard restart.
It is beyond me, I have the video card drivers up to snuff, all updates are installed, virus scanners/spyware scanners, video card isn't overheating, CPU idles at 33 loads at 42. I'll describe the problem a little better other than to just say it's freezing. When the freeze occurs, the entire screen stops moving, I cannot move my mouse, all sound stops working, and if there was a sound playing, it will get mutilated into a nasty buzz.
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Sep 5, 2008
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Mar 23, 2008
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Sep 9, 2009
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When I try to play a DVD through Windows Media Center it is just all fuzzy and static. You can see the picture moving, but it's so fuzzy and pixelated that it's impossible to actually make anything out. When I play through Media Player, the picture is just black. The sound is working fine in both programs.
I downloaded a program called VLC media player, and that plays the DVDs just fine, so does this mean that it is a problem with codecs? I'm not too sure, hence why I'm asking here on how to fix the problem. Obviously I could just keep using this new VLC player, but I prefer using Media Center.
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Mar 23, 2008
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Sep 20, 2009
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Jun 15, 2009
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May 18, 2009
*Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Fallout3.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.12
Application Timestamp: 48f62dcc.....
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2) Windows Completely Updated
3) FFShow Audio & Video Decoder Excluded
4) Fallout 3 Patch 1.5 Applied. It Crashes While Playing the Game, randomly.
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Mar 26, 2008
My new PC with Vista Business edition will not play DVD's on Media Player as I was told it would do. I get an error message saying no encoder installed. The help search said go to options and enable encoder. It still doesn't play. Do I need some kind of encoder?
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Apr 26, 2008
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Sep 4, 2008
I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 and noticed a problem recently when playing music via windows media center. However, having played around in WMP11 also, WMP is doing the same thing so I believe the problem is somewhere in there. Initially the problem started when trying to play a collection of mp3 files off my local drive. Whether it be via an existing playlist or simply by selecting an album within WMC. The problem is that a track plays and then WMC/WMP freezes on the next track. If I skip to the next track that plays, but then the next track freezes. Sometimes the 1st track on the list doesn't play but the next will. Sometimes the 1st plays and then the next won't!
So, I closed WMC and opened up WMP directly. (This happens in both x86 and x64 versions of WMP by the way). If I create a playlist, the same thing happens a track plays, then freezes, if I skip on, the next track plays and then the next one freezes.....
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Aug 20, 2008
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Sep 13, 2008
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Jun 17, 2008
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Jul 29, 2009
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