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bossdodgers
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Since installing SP1 I am having problems with games freezing after random length of times. I have tried all the Nvidia drivers and am currently on the WHQL 40.72's. These are the only drivers that "recover" after a couple of seconds from the hang. The music carries on playing in the background so it is not the infinite loop problem. All the other drivers I have tried just freeze and I have to reset to get out of the game. I have had this problem for about 6 weeks now and cannot find the cure.
I have reformatted the hard drive and re-installed Windows XP
without the service pack and the problem goes away, however, as soon as SP1 goes on the problem returns.
I have checked all my Sys32 files and registry and there are no conflictions anywhere.
It is not a heating problem as I have checked the temperature and I dont want to have to get rid of SP1 by reformatting as it is necessary for future updates.
The freeze can happen anywhere between five minutes and an hour.
I have also tried disabling the audigy but it makes no difference.
I have also noticed that when the games freeze for a couple of seconds, the sound carries on normal and so does the game itself while it is frozen, as in the game will be a couple of seconds further on as if it hasnt even froze which is a bit strange. Its as if the game hasnt frozen but it just freezes on the screen for a couple of seconds.
Maybe this could be of help for a possible solution!
It has got to be Driver and SP1 related because as i said before, some drivers freeze totally and i have to restart the comp and the 40+ drivers unfreeze after a couple of seconds.
ANy one got any ideas?
My specs
AMD Athlon 1.4 DDR (Pc2100)
512 DDR RAM
GeForce 3 Ti500
Creative Audigy
Windows XP with SP1
I have reformatted the hard drive and re-installed Windows XP
without the service pack and the problem goes away, however, as soon as SP1 goes on the problem returns.
I have checked all my Sys32 files and registry and there are no conflictions anywhere.
It is not a heating problem as I have checked the temperature and I dont want to have to get rid of SP1 by reformatting as it is necessary for future updates.
The freeze can happen anywhere between five minutes and an hour.
I have also tried disabling the audigy but it makes no difference.
I have also noticed that when the games freeze for a couple of seconds, the sound carries on normal and so does the game itself while it is frozen, as in the game will be a couple of seconds further on as if it hasnt even froze which is a bit strange. Its as if the game hasnt frozen but it just freezes on the screen for a couple of seconds.
Maybe this could be of help for a possible solution!
It has got to be Driver and SP1 related because as i said before, some drivers freeze totally and i have to restart the comp and the 40+ drivers unfreeze after a couple of seconds.
ANy one got any ideas?
My specs
AMD Athlon 1.4 DDR (Pc2100)
512 DDR RAM
GeForce 3 Ti500
Creative Audigy
Windows XP with SP1