Games crashing and wierd noise

shootout010 · Apr 3, 2014

Hi guys, apologies if this is not the correct place.

I currently have an Alienware X51 gaming PC with totally standard spec; what they provide.

It has an i5, and a GT 640 Graphics card.

Lately, I had issues with the graphics card due to a 'Kernel Driver malfunction' or something. Dell established this to be a hardware issue, and sent me out a new GT 640, exactly the same, free of charge (under warranty).

Having installed the new graphics card, things seemed to be running great, but then 5 minutes into the game.. the sounds twinge on and off a bit robotic and when this happens, the screen/game lags.

Eventually everything becomes so robotic and clangy/buzzy sounding, the game seems to freeze up and eventually crashes. I have reinstalled my drivers (I think..) and to no avail, it still happens.

The game I play is Arma 2, and I use TeamSpeak 3. I could hear my own voice going robotic aswell as everybody elses.. and also the guys said that they could hear my voice as all crazy robotic too.

Any ideas, solutions or workarounds?

Thanks a bunch!

EDIT: Also, there seems to be no overheating.

Copyright-Wapow · Apr 3, 2014

Might due to hard drive problems.

If your game is crashing try to hear if there are like clicking sounds if so then it is hard drive issue.

Onus · Apr 3, 2014

Remove ALL of your sound drivers (including for the video card, if any), reboot, then install the latest ones, ONLY for the primary sound adapter.

zeph_yr · Apr 3, 2014

Are you speakers plugged into your motherboard directly or does it come from the HDMI port on your graphics cards? I'm like 90% sure that it's the new graphics card that's causing the problem, but there's a chance that your motherboard might be dying.

shootout010 · Apr 3, 2014

zeph_yr :

My headset has been plugged into the front ports, and also the ports on the rear and nothing has changed.

shootout010 · Apr 3, 2014

Onus :

I will try this. Do I remove my sound drivers via device manager.. or control panel?

Onus · Apr 3, 2014

I would do it in Control Panel. You might need to use something like CCleaner to make sure they're gone, but hopefully not. Right now I suspect a conflict with audio drivers for the new video card. You might find something useful in the Windows Event Logs after a crash.

shootout010 · Apr 4, 2014

http://postimg.org/image/3zdavb8g9/

Are these what I should be uninstalling?

Onus · Apr 4, 2014

I am at work an unable to access most media sharing sites. Hopefully another person will see this and respond.

gumbykid · Apr 4, 2014

NVIDIA GPUs install their own sound driver (which I believe is for HDMI output). This has been known to conflict with standard speaker drivers.

Go into Device Manager and disable all the sound drivers except the only necessary one (your headset might not even have a driver).

As for your image, NVIDIA comes with the GPU (remove it), Intel Display Driver is also for HDMI (remove it), and Realtek is for speakers (keep it if you use them, unless you want to update it - then you will remove it).

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