Alright so i made a new PC in June:
AMD Athlon 64X2 6000+
Asus M3A78-CM
XFX 4850 XXX
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB)
And so when i play games such as, Mass Effect, Borderlands, and rarely Left 4 Dead, the video would cut out and either
a) vertical stripes would appear and audio would still be going, i can't move or interact or anything but the sound still goes. Restart is needed.
b) it blacks out with stuttering audio then hangs forever until i restart it.
Now i was thinking my computer is overheating and that i'd see if a house fan pointed at the everything would help. And it did, in games like Mass Effect i would be able to play for long amounts of time without a single problem, same thing with Borderlands, and it has never come back with L4D.
But now they're back even if i'm blasting cool air at everything, and the weird part is that they seem to occur in certain places.
For example in Mass Effect near the end (not really a spoiler) where you need to activate a turret so that it can slowly shoot a dropship down, it crashes anywhere from 2-10 seconds after the dropship is shot down.
And now in Borderlands, (again, not really a spoiler) i'm driving around the rust commons looking for Patricia Tannis's tapes and as i get the second one, the above image is what i get.
So please if you guys could shed any light on this it'd be great. (i've updated my video drivers aswell, as of today 9.10)
AMD Athlon 64X2 6000+
Asus M3A78-CM
XFX 4850 XXX
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB)
And so when i play games such as, Mass Effect, Borderlands, and rarely Left 4 Dead, the video would cut out and either
a) vertical stripes would appear and audio would still be going, i can't move or interact or anything but the sound still goes. Restart is needed.
b) it blacks out with stuttering audio then hangs forever until i restart it.
Now i was thinking my computer is overheating and that i'd see if a house fan pointed at the everything would help. And it did, in games like Mass Effect i would be able to play for long amounts of time without a single problem, same thing with Borderlands, and it has never come back with L4D.
But now they're back even if i'm blasting cool air at everything, and the weird part is that they seem to occur in certain places.
For example in Mass Effect near the end (not really a spoiler) where you need to activate a turret so that it can slowly shoot a dropship down, it crashes anywhere from 2-10 seconds after the dropship is shot down.
And now in Borderlands, (again, not really a spoiler) i'm driving around the rust commons looking for Patricia Tannis's tapes and as i get the second one, the above image is what i get.
So please if you guys could shed any light on this it'd be great. (i've updated my video drivers aswell, as of today 9.10)