Games crash and freeze in fullscreen mode. HELP!

[Guest]

I have installed all Windows Updates as well with installing SP2. I have
PCTools Registry Doctor that runs often. MS AntiSpyware, ZoneAlarm Internet
Security w/ Antivirus, TuneUp Utilities 2006, all run often as well (normally
daily). I have the following hardware:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB
AMD 64 Athlon X2 4200+ CPU
Geil 2GB Dual-Channel DDR400 RAM
BFG GeForce 6800GT OC 256MB 16x PCI-e
Ultra X-Connect 500W 20-pin PSU

Now to my problem:
Almost everytime I open a fullscreen game, it freezes and forces me to
manually reboot the computer. This has happened in Sims 2 and C&C Generals
Zero Hour. Although I still have other games on this computer that I have
not tried out yet but the ammount of times that this has happened deserves
complaining about. I definitely have the hardware to support this but the
freezing shows otherwise. THe only thing that I see could be a possibility
is, my power supply has 20-pin power connector and my mobo has a 24-pin
connector. I had to buy an additional 20-to-24 pin connector to provide
power to the additional 4 pins. I do plan to purchase a bettter PS in the
near future but am simply waiting for prices to drop. Any other ideas for
me..? Has anyone had a similar problem like this b4 and can help me out?

 

[Rich Barry]

Take a look here
http://forums.pcper.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

 

[Guest]

I have installed all Windows Updates as well with installing SP2. I have
PCTools Registry Doctor that runs often. MS AntiSpyware, ZoneAlarm Internet
Security w/ Antivirus, TuneUp Utilities 2006, all run often as well (normally
daily). I have the following hardware:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB
AMD 64 Athlon X2 4200+ CPU
Geil 2GB Dual-Channel DDR400 RAM
BFG GeForce 6800GT OC 256MB 16x PCI-e
Ultra X-Connect 500W 20-pin PSU

Now to my problem:
Almost everytime I open a fullscreen game, it freezes and forces me to
manually reboot the computer. This has happened in Sims 2 and C&C Generals
Zero Hour. Although I still have other games on this computer that I have
not tried out yet but the ammount of times that this has happened deserves
complaining about. I definitely have the hardware to support this but the
freezing shows otherwise. THe only thing that I see could be a possibility
is, my power supply has 20-pin power connector and my mobo has a 24-pin
connector. I had to buy an additional 20-to-24 pin connector to provide
power to the additional 4 pins. I do plan to purchase a bettter PS in the
near future but am simply waiting for prices to drop. Any other ideas for
me..? Has anyone had a similar problem like this b4 and can help me out?

A friend had a similar problem and it something to do with a conflict
between his graphics card and net framework 2.0, he unistall net 2 and his
computer never rebooted again.

 

[Talahasee]

I have installed all Windows Updates as well with installing SP2. I have
PCTools Registry Doctor that runs often. MS AntiSpyware, ZoneAlarm Internet
Security w/ Antivirus, TuneUp Utilities 2006, all run often as well (normally
daily). I have the following hardware:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB
AMD 64 Athlon X2 4200+ CPU
Geil 2GB Dual-Channel DDR400 RAM
BFG GeForce 6800GT OC 256MB 16x PCI-e
Ultra X-Connect 500W 20-pin PSU

Now to my problem:
Almost everytime I open a fullscreen game, it freezes and forces me to
manually reboot the computer. This has happened in Sims 2 and C&C Generals
Zero Hour. Although I still have other games on this computer that I have
not tried out yet but the ammount of times that this has happened deserves
complaining about. I definitely have the hardware to support this but the
freezing shows otherwise. THe only thing that I see could be a possibility
is, my power supply has 20-pin power connector and my mobo has a 24-pin
connector. I had to buy an additional 20-to-24 pin connector to provide
power to the additional 4 pins. I do plan to purchase a bettter PS in the
near future but am simply waiting for prices to drop. Any other ideas for
me..? Has anyone had a similar problem like this b4 and can help me out?

It's just a guess; however, I have had this exact problem on
a number of occasions, and with Zone Alarm. When I
uninstalled Zonal, and installed AVG, or AVAST4, I had no
more problems with games not running.

I am also a gamer, and I always check whether my
installation is up to par by running a cpu-intensive,
ram-intensive, graphics-intensive game, like Delta Force
BHD, Comanche 4, Armored Fist 3, Ghost Recon, Doom 3, etc.

Zone Alarm was one of the problems for me, and I've heard
similar complaints from others. I also found out I could not
run some Windows software, but that's a story for another
day.


AVAST4 and AVG are both available for FREE on
www.download.com


Good luck!


Tallahassee

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[Guest]

Thanks, I'll try that. I really hope its not NET Framework 2.0 because I need
this for a programming class I am taking. But, I didn't like ZoneAlarm
anyways. I really hope that this is what it is. Are AVG and AVAST4 both
firewalls or antivirus programs?

 

[Plato]

I have installed all Windows Updates as well with installing SP2. I have
PCTools Registry Doctor that runs often. MS AntiSpyware, ZoneAlarm Internet
Security w/ Antivirus, TuneUp Utilities 2006, all run often as well (normally
daily). I have the following hardware:

You have too much CRAP running.