gaming issues

Hello, this has happened twice already. My laptop (A Sony VPCCW21FX) is around a year and a half old. I would be gaming normally when my screen freezes up, and I would be presented with a BSOD saying "Operating System not found". And I would be forced to force shut down my laptop to get rid of...

Can anyone help me with this problem, appreciated. everytime i tried to open any 3d game, it runs. but after 5 seconds or so, it freeze for a few seconds, then play for another few econds, then it freezes again, then play, then freeze, then play, etc, each freezes lasts longer and eventually...

I recently installed windows 7 64-bit. Everything's running great except for when I play games. Certain games will for fairly long periods (hours of game play) while others will crash within an hour. The only games that I get to enjoy are League of Legends, Batman: arkham asylum, and Fable III...

I wanted to start this thread to warn people about things that have come up during my time testing Windows 8. The largest things that I was hoping to put out is the stuff that is a major break down, and could cause your system to have to be cold shutdown. That was the major idea I had, but...

Hello, I have had my rig since March, and it has been a very off and on experience with it, but I am finally to the point where I am reaching a boiling point with it. It was custom built by the guys at ibuypower.com. I have ran thorough RAM and hard disk tests to check for errors, neither...

Cheers! I'm not sure if someone had this problem but here it goes. Since some days ago my in-game LIVE stopped going on-line in some games. i could suspect that the instalization of halo 2 could had damaged the client, because of that i reinstalled both the client and the redistributable. With...

The Title Is Wrong The Graphics Card Is Actually A Ati Radeon Hd 4550... When Playing A Computer Game.. I Can Usually Get Ethier About 15 mints of gameplay... without this error , and then other times when playing games.. i cant even play it without it getting error.. i played it in window...

Hi Guys/Girls I have never had problems with my graphics card in the 2 ish years i have been running it, with top games etc. However just recently i have been having issues. I am playing Starcraft 2 and the game area starts to do like a pinstripe colour which moves around the game area. Then...

Hello recently I bought a new computer,no warranty sadly.It's a Dell Inspiron 580 i5 650 Nvidia 220 750GB(I replaced the original 1 TB Hard drive with 750 to sell my other computer better),and 8GB of ram.I have been having these errors mostly when playing games like From Dust and Mafia 2.I have...

Computer restarts usually during game play. recently replaced video card, memory and cpu fan. cleaned well no dust bunnies inside.. here is error log and some details of my computer:. It has restarted playing Call of Duty, Magicka, League of Legends, or Watching a movie. When It did it more...

Hi all, A few weeks ago I started having blue screen problems, freezing mostly when I play computer games, sometimes when the computer is idle. I have had a number of different error messages, the most common being IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, I have also had SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION...

heya folks another gamer in trouble here! So here's the problem : when idle, my cpu usage is around 20%, which is allot more than it should be in my opinion. Whenever I start a game, Battlefield : Bad Company 2 which is the game i've been playing allot lately, my cpu usage doesnt come down from...

Hi guys, as the title says whenever i play football manager my laptop just crashes, randomly. It can be within 20mins or a couple of hours into the game, it varies. But it is getting more frequent. It has happened 3 times today. Log Name: System Source...

Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: a BCP1: 00000818 BCP2: 00000002 BCP3: 00000001 BCP4: 82C6C686 OS Version: 6_1_7600 Service Pack...

My friend let me play it for a bit on his PC and I liked it alot, so I bought it off of Trymedia (you download a copy of it and then pay to remove the 60 minute trial) The reason Im saying this is I hear most fixes dont work on a downloaded copy of the game. Anywho, when I start it, most of the...

Hello Windows 7 Forum Users & Admins, I recently wanted to "relive" the classic game but encountered some errors along the way. I spent countless amounts of time trying to find a cure. I have read that playing RTC1 is indeed possible after a couple of minor changes to the exe. file. I...

Was running on Windows vista Home Premium 64 bit, but recently have made the switch to Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Running a Nvidia GTX 260, Drivers are up to date. Never Been Overclocked. But recently have been getting A Fatal Pink Screen of Death Error that crashes the video of my computer...

Hi, I have Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) and every time I try to open a full screen game, it automatically minimizes to the task bar. When I try to click on it, it maximizes for a second, but then reminimizes. Any ideas? (Note: I have searched for other topics concerning this question, but...

Hello. Yesterday I removed (deleted) the game (Original game) "red faction guerrilla". In Win7 game folder, the game there, not deleted. Image: What I need to do? How I need to delete this game from this folder? tnx.

I am running Windows 7 64-bit and have a legal copy of Call of Duty (original) that I'd like to play. I installed the game (seemingly without error) and tried to run it, and got a buffer overrun error. I used the Windows 7 troubleshoot feature to run the program using Windows XP...