Games Freeze But CTRL+ALT+DEL Fixes It!!

[jamespage17]

When playing most of my games they eventauly lock up, however ctrl+alt+del and then just clicking cancel makes it jolt back into action. What conclusion can you daw from this??

Specs-
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 OC'd 3.42Ghz.
XFX 780i Motherboard.
Kingston HyperX RAM 1066Mhz.
Zotac GTX260 216 Edition.
Corsair 450W VX Power Supply.
Western Digital Blue 320GB Hard Drive.
Antec 900 Gamers Case.
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7.
DVD/R Drive.

Prime95 Stable and temps are fine on everything.

Any help would be nice.

 

[Maziar]

Don't do ALT+CTRL+Del and see whether if it gives any errors or not,also make sure you have the latest VGA drivers installed

 

[jamespage17]

Don't do ALT+CTRL+Del and see whether if it gives any errors or not,also make sure you have the latest VGA drivers installed

Ok so i just wait??, and yeah i do, i have 191.07 drivers for gtx 260.

 

[Maziar]

I mean if u don't press ALT+CTRL+DEL does it give u any errors or you have to press those keys ?
Also did this happen with an older driver too ?

 

[KidHorn]

Somewhere, software is being stuck in an infinite loop. Could be the game, the video drivers. Who knows. When you ctrl+alt+delete, you break the loop.

The solution is to replace the offending software, but you will likely have to use trial and error. Get the latest version of the game, drivers, etc... and see if it fixes the problem.

 

[jamespage17]

Somewhere, software is being stuck in an infinite loop. Could be the game, the video drivers. Who knows. When you ctrl+alt+delete, you break the loop.

The solution is to replace the offending software, but you will likely have to use trial and error. Get the latest version of the game, drivers, etc... and see if it fixes the problem.

Well i have newest drivers so ill check for game updates, i was wondering, can physx cause this problem?

 

[Maziar]

Disable it and check