When 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?
View 4 RepliesI 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
View 3 Replies View Relatedive 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
View 14 Replies View Relatedim 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?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI 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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View 9 Replies View RelatedI 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?
View 6 Replies View Relatedwhat 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 .
View 4 Replies View Relatedso 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
every 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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhenever 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
Well, 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.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'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?
I 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
View 2 Replies View RelatedAbout 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.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI 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.........
I went out of town for 2 weeks, came home and my pc is acting really strange. I've been getting tons of pop-ups, to the point my computer freezes and i must restart. Not only that but it randomly reboots itself even when not being used. Also, when i go to delete files now, the file does NOT go into the recycle bin. I looked at the settings and there is no check mark next to the "do not move files into recycle bin". My BF said he had been downloading things so I figured maybe its a virus or something. I ran Nortons... nothing. Ran AVG... nothing. A friend told me it sounded like spyware so he told me to run Adaware & Spybot. Did that, found a ton of stuff. But when i retarted the pc, it wanted to start in "safe mode". I noticed that most of these pop ups are (search miracle ??) Found info that its a trojan, but i dont know. . I dont know what to do, totally computer illiterate.
View 14 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to access the bios of a computer with another computer, via a direct link or a router? I am sure that the bios have been affected and attempts to boot from either a floppy or cd get ignored in the loading process and the bios canot find the module to activate the periferal devices ie: keyboard, mouse, usb ports. I am at a total loss of how to do this.
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy computer freezes randomly and a message pops up, (this computer is not responding) WHY?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy computer has been running slow and I just did a quick virus scan and I seem to have a 8 trojan horses or something
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have alot of problems with my computer i have alot of pop ups coming up...when i click to get into my computer or into pictures my documents it won't open it just clears everything...when i am on the internet i get redirected to pages that have nothing to do with what i tried to open. i also have a smss.exe opening everytime i turn on the computer and also services.exe
View 1 Replies View Relatedi want to free up space but dont know how, i tried disk clean-up, ccleaner and still not that many space was freeup up also i want my computer to be alot faster because lately its bein very slow.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt appears CNET performs an excellent service to computer users and their desire is to assist individuals acquire computer knowledge.Unfortunately at 63, such input simply is beyond my understanding. I enroll in a class but upon receipt, the printed directions doesn't do/perform as expected. I note your address is changing--I attempted to add the new address to the address folder but my computer will not accept the @ symbol. My question--Is there real basic material to assist one become better acquainted & understand the system?
View 9 Replies View Relatedwell computer has 2000 pro, been acting really slow lately, opening programs etc, lost of useless programs installed i think, tried adaware and spybot,
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy computer freezes sometimes. i get webpages not responding.its IE7 have i been hijacked or something
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn recent weeks the computer screen keeps freezing with the cursor being replaced by the hour glass symbol. This usually happens after several hours computer usage - but sometimes it occurs soon after the computer is turned on.When this happens, I am unable to log off; the computer on/off button does not work when the screen freezes and I have to turn the computer off at the mains.In order to be able to log back into my broadband internet connection I have to turn the computer and and off twice and then on again Sometimes when the computer screen image freezes a message box appears always saying "End programme" (i.e. "End programme - CiceroUIWndFrame" or "End programme - mixer").
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been unable to use Norton Virus scan because before the scan completes, the computer shuts off and the indicator light turns orange like it is in hibernate mode. I have to physically disconnect the power for five seconds to reboot. Is there a way to scan the computer for viruses or remove a particular virus that may be causing this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have purchased a new computer to replace my old one(both are running Windows XP Home) and want to know if Windows XP has a way to transfer all of my files and folders directly to the new PC and also I need to remove everything from my old computer except for the Windows XP Operating system (don't want to leave any personal information in the system) before I either give this to a relative to use or donate it.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedMy computer is really slow and want to know what I can do to make it faster. I ran virus and spyware scan and it's free from all that
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have windows me I have cable hook up my computer is so slow I don't even know where to start. I have norton anti viru when I turn my computer on it takes forever to start up.I always have to get repair for my Internet connection to work right. When I open outlook express and get my e-mail everything is ok then but when I close I get and error message from msn if this keeps happening restart your computer I don't ever want to restart takes forever to come up. I do have my connection with insight to come on when I start my computer should I stop that and connect after I turn on my computer. And also I keep getting norton stopping tnall4c something like that why does this keep coming on my computer.
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