Oh no, not another one. Well, I tried to play Farcry 1, and it locked up the same exact way as Calamity.
\nEverything locks up, but the sounds keep playing for about 10 seconds, then loop very quickly, then loop slow, loop quick, loop slow.. over and over until I reach over and turn the computer off.<\/p>\n
Only these two games are doing this. This FINALLY gives me a way to say “hey. Try playing this game. It locked up on me before around so and so time, everytime”, without the fucking thing being so random.<\/p>\n
But the majority of my games.. Gmod, Mirror’s Edge, WoW… and now Crysis too.. are random, unpredictable… god damn FUCKING lock ups!! I can only pray that if I fix these the two games above, my lock up issue will be murdered.<\/p>\n
I am really thinking it could be something I couldn’t bare to think could be the culprit.. again, but I believe it is. My Video Card.
\nWell, I believe I know what to get. However I got a burning question that still haven’t been answered.<\/p>\n
These 9800GT cards. Most, if not all of them have the heatsink right over where you plug the card into the motherboard. I’m concerned that the poor thing will overheat, because I have my sound card pretty much directly under my video card, in the 2nd PCI slot.<\/p>\n
My slots look like this;
\nPCIEX1
\nPCIEX16(video card)
\nPCI1(video card slightly covers slot)
\nPCI2(sound card)<\/p>\n
No one has been able to help me yet. I’ll probably end up calling the guy that built my computer, and asking him personally if he would know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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