Games crashing..

alan_simon

Hi all, I recently bought a new graphics card (an MSI 8600GTS) and have just installed it today. The only problem is once I get about 10 seconds into a game, the game crashes. Not to desktop, but it stops working and the sound loops. I was wondering what could cause this. I took off the case, and lowered the details and the game worked fine. Does this mean I need more cooling? if so, where can I get it, and what's it gonna cost? (I already spent 160 on the card, and 50 on a new PSU )

Thanks in advance,

Alan

Hal1

Make sure its seated correctly on the mobo and all power cables are connected to the card. Finally update your display drivers.

alan_simon

i cracked open the case and the card is seated fine. I switched power supple just in case it was a dodgy one that i had plugged into the card. And the drivers are the latest nVidia has.

Hal1

What is the wattage of your PSU?

alan_simon

Its a 450W brand new sharktoon psu. I was trying to play a game there, and before one of the levels loaded the computer stalled, bluescreened (there was a lot of info on the blue screen and I was unable to read it) and then rebooted. Is it a faulty GPU? Or a cooling issue.

Cheers,

Alan

B00MSTICK

Have you overclocked anything?

alan_simon

nope, I wouldn't know enough about computers to overclock:p the card is factory overclocked, but I would have thought the dirty big fan on it would have taken care of any heat. My CPU is running at 47 degrees, and using nVidia monitor the max reading I was getting was 52 degrees on the GPU. So what do you reckon? Faulty card or too hot?

alan_simon

This is really starting to annoy me. The system boots up fine, runs fine, performs grand in nVidia stability tests, got me a much improved score on PC Mark 05, but it still crashes when I try to play a game!! any ideas?

footfall

Had similiar problems with my last 2 video cards i bought...GE7950GT and a GE8800GTX....
Spent months trouble shooting the GE7950...replaced motherboard same problem, reinstalled OS same problem, tried every driver available same problem....games would hang with black or corrupter screen, sound would loop....sometimes i could get it back to desktop...other times i would have a display driver detected a fault warning in windows error....sent it back and the new working without a problem.....
Then i bought a new GE8800 and similiar game hangs and blue screens...problem was much worse in Vista than XP...Was'nt going to waste months this time...brought it back 4 days later..............new card no more problems.......:D

Id say bring back and report it as an intermittant display fault and get a new one ASAP...
PS.....make sure you have all the info required because first thing they normally say is... its heat problem or software problem !!!!!......even go a little over the top if needed....you know like , a couple of times it had a corrupted post screen etc etc .....

alan_simon

Cheers footfall, I just arranged to send it back to dabs. But due to them re-pricing the card (it went up 30 quid since I bought it) their just gonna refund me and leave it at that. So now I have 160 odd quid to spend on a new GPU. Any ideas guys?

Cheers,

Alan

footfall

In that price range have a look at the new ATI cards.....3850 --- 155 euro's
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=342319

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/AMD-Radeon-HD-3800,review-29753.html

read through the 21 pages of the review.....

The card is faster that the 8600GTS and a slower than the 8800GTS 320mb.

Looks good for the price ...