Games Freezing And Becoming Unclosable
Mar 23, 2008
On a lot of my games (especially games running on the Source engine), my game will suddenly stop responding. When I try to close them by right clicking on their button in the taskbar and selecting "Close", the End Application dialog box pops up and I click End Application, but nothing happens. If I try to end the process for the game through CTRL+ALT+DEL, this also does not work, and the program sits there eating up my RAM (but having a very little effect on my CPU). If I try to restart the computer, the program still refuses to close, and so the computer cannot shut down. I have to flick the power switch on the back of the computer in order to shut it down. I am at a loss at what to do to resolve this problem.
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Jan 11, 2008
I have recently purchased a new computer and for some reason every time I play any video game it locks up after about a good 20 to 30mins of play. I have updated all the drivers for my graphics card, motherboard, updated windows. Do not know what the problem is. Also the CPU temp idle is about 35 to 45 C and MB is about 35 to 40 C
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Jul 3, 2009
My Buddy has had a problerm with his new rig, he would play a game and it would randomly freeze out of nowhere, it can range from any game from Crysis to Counter Strike. What will happen is everything will freeze (he cant even ALT+CTR+DEL)
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Mar 27, 2009
Everytime I open a game the game freezes for about 10-30 seconds, and then begins to load.. This also happens when closing takes about ten to thirty seconds, and then finally closes... This happens with every single game I had.. This didn't happen in the beginning but started about three to four months ago.. I searched for other threads in different forums.
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Dec 11, 2009
I have been having a problem with my video card (xfx geforce 9600 gso 768mb) randomly freezing up in games for a while now. I purchased a barebone from tigerdirect.com and had it set up and everything worked great for a little bit, but then it started to randomly freeze up in games. I was thinking that there were some conflicting drivers that were causing the error. I reinstalled vista and it worked OK for a little bit then started again.
I have been looking around everywhere to see if I could find any way to fix the problem. It turns out there are a lot of people with similar problems as mine with the same card. I tried all of the different methods that had been mentioned to help them fix their problems and none of them worked. This has been going on for a few months. It's really weird..................
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Sep 5, 2008
just got some games loaded and I used to have ATITray Tools which would let you keep the frame rate and temps in the corner during game play, anything like that for Nvidia? Just ran Quake4 at full specs and had Nvidia performance control panel turn the fan to 90%... but would like to monitor the temps and frame rates on this and other games. 9800GT 1GB. ( as soon as the new card arrives.... back to ATI tools.
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Mar 23, 2008
I recently purchased a laptop with Business. It has no games at all. How can I upload the games that come with Home?
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Aug 26, 2008
I bought a new lappy recently and was dismayed that it had to come with vista and I was not allowed to dual boot or anything or else void my warente. However that is not what I am here to rant about, ok I got it a month ago, it worked fine for the first 2 weeks then BAM It began freezing, and I mean total system lock up hard restart etc etc . If I leave it for half an hour or so it eventually goes black and displays an error "Login process has failed to create the security options dialog" I've been looking at solutions and calling tech support and all I've gotten is
1) reformat everything and reinstall Vista. - Did not help 1 iota, the problem came back a week later.
2) uninstall Asus live updates - done and no effect
3) press Ctrl + Alt + Del and fix - Not going to work its freezing just after startup (or during) and nothing responds other then force restart.
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Feb 15, 2010
About two years ago I bought a Vista HP laptop. Recently when I went on vacation with my children the snow storm holed us up in the hotel with nothing to do. So they used my laptop alot. After this, my laptop did not work properly. About 1 minute after I turn it on it will freeze completely. After about ten minutes it will unfreeze but proceed to execute all of the clicks I made during the time it was frozen. I am at about an intermediate stage when it comes to computers.
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Mar 9, 2010
I have an XPS 720 H2C that up until 2 nights ago, was running fine. Then all of a sudden, my OS (Vista Ultimate) started freezing after about 10 minutes. I am unable to do anything when this happens apart from press the power off button.
I haven't installed anything new.
I haven't updated anything.
I haven't done anything unusual.
I have Norton Antivirus running in the background etc
The system is a Quad Core 2.93ghz, 4g ram (although Vista only allows 3...bah) and it's a 32 bit OS. I have a Zotac 1gb GTX 285 Amp GFX card, a Blu-Ray drive and a Liteon DVD DL RW and a SoundBlaster X-Fi card. So no changes. Nothing. The system has crapped out on me. I have rolled back to 2 previous save points (first one made no difference) and I have also installed the latest updates to try and fix it. Nada. Still crashing. I now throw myself at your mercy and hope you don't tell me to get a Mac/Linux - tell me my OS is lame, that Dell is overpriced crap (I got my second hand dirt cheap).
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Mar 17, 2010
A few weeks ago my computer died whilst playing online poker. Got the BSOD followed by computer refusing to boot at all. In the end I got it to boot up from the cd drive to run memtest86 and windows memory diagnostic to check my 2gb RAM. Sure enough both of these scans found errors and so today I opened the machine up! Took out 1gb or stick of RAM, and left the other 1gb in the machine. I then ran both memory tests again and this time no errors were found! So in my mind I had removed the faulty RAM and maybe vista would start for the first time in weeks! It did start to my relief and it seemed to be running ok. Then all of a sudden while browsing the net, the computer just froze. Now it keeps freezing often and randomly, sometimes even just by moving the mouse!
One bit of good news is that it is JUST freezing and no longer giving me various BSODs. Does it keep freezing because 1gb of ram is not enough? Another interesting thing is that when the system died on me 2 weeks back I was playing online poker and was always wondering if this caused the problem. Then today I ran a virus scan and it was scanning fine until it came to scanning one file which froze the scan and computer. The file was the following - c:Program filesfull tilt pokergraphics... widget.Tournamentinfo.PNG. Obviously this file is from the same site I was playing poker on. Does that mean anything or am I reading too much into it? Main thing. Is 1gb of RAM enough to run Vista without freezing randomly all the time? I would have thought it was, but I'm not that clued up!
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Jun 9, 2008
Ok, my computer is fairly new, about 2 1/2 weeks old. And past week or so, I been experiencing random and sudden freezing. The first time it happened was when I was playing BF2. Another time when it happened was when I was browsing the web and listen to iTunes. So far, my computer froze about 6 times. I know it froze because there is a repeating sound of either my game or the songs. And also the Num Lock light won't turn off or on and the mouse pointer is frozen. Hodling CTRL+ALT+Delete does not respond. Just now, while browsing this forum using the key "Page Down", it froze. It's like any sudden movement will freeze my computer.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have tried all the recommended solutions, Restore to a time when it wasn't happening, got rid of McAfee Software, had Dell technicians remote in for several hours 2x, had a friend remote in to look for conflicting software and no one anywhere can find the problem. Ditto on freeze ups, opening e-mail, writing a word doc, editing a pic, anything thing, anytime. o time frames but it always happens once a session. I run Webroot virus/software, uninstalled it and still had freeze ups. Dell is confounded. Sometimes get blue screen, sometimes not.
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May 10, 2009
I just recieved my new Dell with Vista 64-Bit Home Premium on Friday (the 8th) and since the initial start-up, I can be doing anything (web surfing, viewing task manager, any program) and without any warning the program just stops responding. In most cases I can't minimize or close the program and clicking Start - Restart even does not respond. The 'only' way to end this and restart the computer is by actually unplugging the power cable.
Viweing the Event Viewer I see that within 2 days, I have 83 Error messages listed under Windows Logs - Applications (These are the red buttons under the LEVEL column). All updates are installed. I have to write this quickly before the bugger freezes up again.
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Jan 2, 2008
I recently purchased a new computer. It has been plagued by freezing and crashing ever since i bought it. (just froze) I also have unfrequently had the (just froze) "nvlddmkm display driver has stopped working and has recovered" message. Could that account for the frequent freezing. The thing is that it is not accompanied by a black or blue screen.
This freezing usually occurs during IE7 opperations, but also occurs while playing games and fiddling with gadgets. (just froze) I have 2gb and wondered if this could be the problem - i seem to remeber reading somewhere that when you have 2gb or + it frequently freezes.
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Feb 14, 2008
i have a compaq C700 laptop running vista home premium 32bit. While trying to install KB938371, my computer freezes when the bar is about 2/3 done in windows update. I am forced to turn my computer off, and do a system restore to get my laptop working normally again. what I can do to install this update successfully as it looks necessary for getting SP1 later.
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Apr 11, 2010
For the past few days, I've been having problems with my laptop. It keeps freezing up, usually when it's idle (Which I can't afford because I download torrents while I sleep). This is my laptop: Toshiba Satellite L305-S5933 - P T3400 2.16 GHz - 15.4" TFT Laptop reviews - CNET Reviews I'm pretty experienced with computers, but I'm stumped on this one. Usually, I notice this:
1.It's usually happens when it's idle, and running uTorrent.
2.If uTorrent isn't open, it's when a lot of programs are open.
Nothing special happens, all that happens is that the computer freezes up, with no error message. The only way to restart it is to go and take out the battery.
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May 21, 2009
I've been using Vista since 01/2008 without any issues. Now I have a melt down of sorts.
My computer is an HP Pavilion dv6775us laptop with Vista Home Edition 32bit. I was doing my standard evening email check when I clicked on a hyperlink to check UPS shipping on a recent online purchase and my mouse (PS/2 touchpad on laptop) froze up. Ctrl-alt-del doesn't work either. So I hard restart. Here is the sequence of events that followed:
Restart normal --> mouse won't work, ctrl-alt-del won't work. hard restart
Restart safe mode --> mouse works, everything seems normal. restart
Restart normal --> mouse won't work, ctrl-alt-del won't work, screen shifts to black with cursor. hard restart
Restart safe mode --> mouse works, system restore. restart
Restart normal --> mouse works for a minute or so. system locks up. shut down.
I tried to uninstall software, but Vista safe mode doesn't allow it. I tried accessing the internet via safe mode + networking, no love. The mouse and keyboard work fine in safe mode, but only 1-2 inputs in regular mode before freezing up. What are my options besides a Vista reinstall (can't as I'm working offsite on assignment, no Vista CD's).
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Dec 1, 2008
I am new to this forum and new to Vista. I am not a whizz so cannot open base and take things apart but being disabled,and quite ill, I spend most of my time on my computer. I play with graphics and animate. I also make jigsaws, and am doing my family tree so spend a lot of time on the internet.
My computer keeps freezing and it is driving me mad. Task manager has become my best friend!!! I use incredimail but I have the purchased version and the vista edition so i think it should be fine. It freezes on any jobs whether on the internet, opening folders, searching ancestry.com or emails. I run regular virus scan, spybot and ccleaner. I don't download games etc as I try to keep my computer as clean as possible.
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Apr 16, 2008
Don't mean to be redundant but I have read & re-read Richard Eagle's reply regarding applets freezing WM up. I am a Stationery maker (don't do applets though) & belong to an active Stationery Group. I am now in possession of 2 of these 'headaches' in my mail. I've read the article Richard referenced regarding the old Java. I have Sun Java on here & I am using Vista. I've had 20 yrs of experience with computers but for some reason I am not able to grasp Richard's explanation. First of all, I'd really like to get these 2 applet's out of WM & then, if Richard would, try explainng to me what he's stated before.
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Oct 18, 2009
Afte updating to SP2 my computer then stoppe dstarting up. I have tied booting in safe mode, and system restoring after startup repair....none work. So I'm going to reinstall vista and changed the bios to boot from cd , click install then choose te language but it get stick on the next screen of 'please wait.
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Nov 11, 2009
Is anyone else having problems with vista (with SP1) freezing after the latest batch of updates that came to me today?
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Aug 5, 2009
My Vista x64 Ultimate system has been rock stable for 2 years now. Recently - and it happens more and more often - it started behaving on me... Here is what happens: One of the applications currently running freezes (it may be IE 9, Windows Mail, or even a system utility like Task Manager). I'm unable to close or even kill it. Within several seconds to one minute, ALL other apps do the same (i.e. become unresponsive); the mouse cursor permanently changes in the spinning blue circle - and all I can do is the hard reset! The only hint is that when it happens (not always - just twice so far) the screen goes blank, and a single small "FAILURE - Security Options" message window is displayed, saying: "Logon process failed to create the security options dialog". Clicking OK closes it and the screen comes back, but Vista is still dead.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have vista home premium. The first time i turn on my comp each day vista freezes on desktop screen. I reboot and it fine. I looked in event viewer and the error which is happening when it freezes is to do with ACPI. Error message:IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 7, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance. IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 6, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance. etc.....I have been assured this is a Vista problem and not hardware.
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Sep 25, 2008
I have an HP xw9400 Workstation with Vista Business x64 SP1. Every day or other day the entire system just locks up, no screen of death, just everything is frozen. When it freezes I cannot move the mouse, use the keyboard, I do not see any movement from any taskbar or gadget bar icons so I know the system is completely locked up and its not just a mouse/keyboard issue. I also removed the wireless mouse/keyboard and used USB and PS2 connect mouse/keybard and still freezing. I upgraded the BIOS. Made sure I have all the latest Windows Updates Upgraded all the drivers I can think of Upgraded the SAS controller firmware Made sure Kaspersky is always running and up to date (anti virus/firewall enable) Uninstalled any software I did not think is needed. Made sure the PC is connected to a UPS and that the UPS is functioning well...........
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Jan 19, 2009
I just recently upgraded from Windows Home Premium 32bit to the 64bit version and I am having problems with it randomly freezing. The freeze up usually occurs when I am installing a program, just starting to download a file, and even sometimes when I am surfing the web. When my system freezes it like everything locks up...mouse, keyboard, HDD, monitor...everything. The only way to restore my system is a hard boot. I had no problems with Vista 32 bit and it ran well for almost a year so I have a feeling it is a software problem.....Not sure what is causing the freeze ups…sometimes it will run for hours and then freeze sometimes it will freeze 5min after I boot it up…seems to always happen when I’m doing something in windows…
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Sep 25, 2008
so here's the situation...i'll just spit it all out and hopefully you can make of it what you will: System freezes up...without warning...without stutter. It's as if im looking at a screenshot of my screen on paper (no faded out windows from unresponsiveness and no moving mouse)...and it happens instantly and swiftly. Completely random too, no difference if I have a load on it or not. Also happens when the screensaver is up. When I boot the computer...the mobo splash screen won't go away unless I have my HP C4180 disconnected...(what the heck?). the printer does have a card reader...but there's no card in it. With the splash disabled...it seems to be halting at the USB Mass Storage detection. is there any way to fix this? Both issues appeared 3 weeks after I build the machine...so maybe drivers or something? I've run the latest version of memtest for over an hour...and it hadn't brought up any errors...
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Jan 29, 2010
When online, it was freezing, and I then turned it off because it won't allow me to shut off using the Start button. I then turned it on, and the statement appeared on the black screen.
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Oct 31, 2009
when I turn my computer on and windows loads I can't click on my task bar it's froze up... So I hit Cntl alt delete and hit switch user but click on my same user I can use it. My desk top I can click on... Also when I am online my computer freezes up too I do same thing and it unfreezes. I am running windows vista home premium 32 bit..Dell XPS m1530. I have ran my avg virus scanner and it shows no viruses.
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Dec 21, 2008
I have been having trouble with my computor freezing up. This started a couple of months ago and now it happens everyday. I have to turn it off and restart it everytime.
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Sep 13, 2009
Recently purchased a Dell Studio 540, I'm running Vista Home Premium 64bit. All was good until i tried to install my wireless adapter (D-Link). System runs ok but then freezes up about 5mins after initial start up. I can take the d-Link adapter out and i don't have this problem so I was thinking the D-link was causing all the problems. I went and purchased an Edimax EW-7728ln wireless PCI Adapter. Installed but I'm still having the same problem, freezes up after initial start up
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