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I`m having trouble with some games lately:
Some recent games, like Medal of Honor 2 or Bioshock, freeze of quit suddenly after some minutes playing.
In the case of Bioshock, after it quites, no other game works (even the ones that always ran perfectly) and I have to reboot the machine to try again.

I thought it could be a memory problem, but after notice that it ONLY happens with games (I`ve never had any kind of similar problem with other softwares), I started to consider a videocard overheat or something like that.

Does anyone have any suggestion what to do?

my machine:
Pentium IV, 3Ghz, 1GB Ram DDR2, Videocard: Radeon X1600 Pro 256MB

Message edited by andregp on 11-19-2007 at 06:25:47 PM

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It could be a heat issue. The newer games are probably stressing your whole system alot more than the older ones did. Have you checked your grahics card's temperature after the "freeze" or "quitting of games"?

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Heat, or maybe a power supply that can't handle the juice.

Are you sure your cooling fan is operational? What temperature does Atitool say your X1600 GPU is running at?

------------------------------ Cleeve
Hardware Editor, Tom's Hardware Guide
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Searching about the subject, I`ve discovered that most video card doesn`t have a heat sensor. I`ve downloaded the recent driver software from ATI and the ATItool...none of them indicates the temperature of my GPU.
So...I guess my video card also doesn`t have a temperature sensor.

How can I know if it is really overheating? Is there any other way?

Message edited by andregp on 11-21-2007 at 12:16:24 PM

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Could you post a screenshot of Atitool running? I'm pretty sure the X1600 has a heat sensor.

------------------------------ Cleeve
Hardware Editor, Tom's Hardware Guide
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Screenshot from the main menu:

screenshot from the settings popup menu (where it should have a temperature/heat monitoring option:

Message edited by andregp on 11-22-2007 at 11:09:59 PM

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Weird.

Did you check the card's cooling fan?

Also, what 12v reading are you getting under load? (Check with Speedfan)

------------------------------ Cleeve
Hardware Editor, Tom's Hardware Guide
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that sucks dude im sorry to heard that

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and my great saviour was....Half-Life 2 - Episode 2!

Whe I ran the game, I've got an error message about "low OS paged pool memory"

Then I searched google about this and this solve my problem:
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/sh [...] p?t=131328

Now I can finish Bioshock

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