Building A Gaming Rig
Jan 28, 2007im prepering for my First Build and im not sure as to which OS to get XP Pro or XP Home? The 32bit or the 64bit?
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64bit - Currently Building New Computer
Sep 3, 2008I used my student status to obtain a copy of windows XP Pro 64bit edition. I am currently building a new comp and I was wondering if it was worth a damn? If not I will stick with XP Pro for now.
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Dec 9, 2004I just ordered a motherboard, memory, case and processor.. Can I put this together and throw in my old hard-drives. this work I am using xp pro.
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Apr 19, 2007When building a new computer for gaming, what XP version is most satisfactory? the 32 bit or the 64 bit version? Are the advantages of the 64 bit version going to out weigh the cons of driver and app support?
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Aug 17, 2010I was playing Dragon Age when the game freezed horribly. It displayed flickering green dots all across my screen and I had to manually restart my pc. When I came back into windows XP, the only thing I saw were large black and white rectangulars all across my screen. So I decided to let it rest for 30 min before trying again.When I did that, the black & white rectangulars were gone and I could do everything normal again. Except for gaming. When I tried Dragon Age, it crashed again the same way. After another 30 min, I tried another game (a hl2 mod, which doesn't tax the system that hard) and it froze again after a while (say 2 minutes), but my screen didn't display the strange rectangulars anymore
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Jun 26, 2005What is <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx" target="_new">Windows XP Professional x64 Edition</A> like for gaming & are there any driver issues with it
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Aug 2, 2006I have a window flashing on the task bar briefly. Just a little box like a new window opening that appears then disappears without opening a window. It usually doesn't bother me, but when I'm playing a game like far Cry for instance, it minimizes the game, which besides being very annoying also causes the game to play poorly sometimes when I go back into the game. Does anyone know a way to figure out what program is causing this or how to stop it?
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Aug 24, 2010what graphics card will work best for me for my computer for gaming ?i hae a computer that i bought that was custom built but i know only so much about it ( i did not build it). i have been having trouble playing certain games i have bought with requirements like minimum of intel pent. 2.8 HTor amd athlon 2800+ 768MB / 1G RAM and video req of MIN: nvidia 6800GT (SM3) or ATI x*))XT (SM2) with latest aplicable drivers .
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Nov 15, 2006so I needed those few extra frames in medieval II and so I set the BIOS auto-overclocking to "sergeant" level (lol) and played MTWII and suddenly the PC shut itself down. I quickly disconnected the power and opened the case to smell burning plastic and red hot heatsink
BF2142 does not make the PC freeze up and squeek, though
Black Screen Appears After Gaming
Jan 20, 2007every time i finish playing a game and exit out of it to return to windows. all i get is a black screen with my mouse curser, everything is still there i just carnt see anything. to fix this everytime i just push the windows button on the universal remote to media center, it starts up i exit out of it then everything is normal. just a little anoying having to do this after every game i play.
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Aug 5, 2005Whenever I play a graphically intnsive such as Doom3 or Painkiller, every so often the screen freezes for 15-30 secs then all is Ok again.I have a P4 3.2, GeForce4Ti video card and 1Gb RAM so I don't think the
hardware is a problem
From Gaming To Black Screen - Update
Jul 1, 2008Well, I have mixed emotions posting back here on TSG. I would have liked to have done it for a happier reason. I've been gone for a while (no computer problems lol) but I hate to return by mentioning that I have a problem with my trusty old Dell. And to make matters worse, this is my 1,666th post. Anyways, I was playing The Sims 2 and all of a sudden, out of the blue, the screen goes completely black. The little green monitor light starts blinking (like it does when you leave the monitor on) and the computer is running but the hard drive activity light isn't attempting to do anything.
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Oct 23, 2007I just had a new system built last week and loaded XP x64 as my operating system. I am seeing a huge decrease in my framerate while gaming and was told on another forum that XP x64 is probably the culprit. I thought that going 64 bit would be an improvement over 32
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Nov 6, 2008I'm going to build a new rig and I'm torn between xp 32-bit for $80 and 64-bit for $150. I am primarily a gamer, the new system will have:core 2 duo E8500 3.0 ghz
asus P5Q Pro mobo2gb gskill DDR2 1066 ram2 x 320gb hitachie drives in RAID 0evga gtx 260Drivers aren't the problem. My question is, will I notice any difference in speed/load times/frame rates with xp 64-bit? Or will 32-bit running off a raid 0 be fine?
Seperate User For My Gaming -one That Uses Less Startup Entries.
Oct 29, 2006I want to create a seperate user for my gaming,one that uses less startup entries.Minimal resource usage.I have 1 gig of ram,but have alot of other crap on my puter,virus spyware etc that I dont need when Im gaming.Ive noticed memory leaks and paging probs while running oblivion and wondering if this will work by tweaking this user account using much less resources
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Jun 13, 2005ive tried installing latests and original drivers for the gfx card, but it hasnt done anything. although i noticed the new 5.6 catalyst drivers freeze my system around only 5 minutes into a game. i also get the same freezing problem when running 3dmark, a gfx benchmark program. the only clu i have is from event viewer, which says the following under systems tab
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Jul 31, 2007About a week ago, I performed a fresh reinstallation of Windows XP Home (I posted here about it) in order to allow it to work with my new motherboard. Since then, everything had been working fine until I experienced a sudden Blue Screen of Death, yesterday, while playing the game 'The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay'. I rebooted and attempted to play the game again, but experienced another almost identical Blue Screen at a different point in the game.
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Apr 7, 2006I have seen a similar problem posted previously on this forum. But after reading it i think this is a different problem, so, here goes: I recently bought a new graphic card: Radeon all-in-wonder x1800xl. Installed it on a clean system (did a reformat before i installed). The problem occurs after usually 30-60 minutes of gaming (so far with oblivion, black & white 2). The game freezes for about 30 sec and then goes into blue-screen mode.
The message is as follows:
Kernel-Data-inpage-error stop error screen
then there are a lot of numbers etc.
I have sometimes noticed a slight change in fan noise prior to freeze (speeding up)
After reebot everything's back to normal.........