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Hi, I have a really bad problem. When I play certain games, after a while the monitor goes black and says no signal. It has happened when I play TycoonCity New York, The Sims 2, and Worms 2. I meet the minimum requirements, and it has happened:
without an extra gig of RAM
with an extra gig of RAM
without a new monitor
and with a new monitor
Please help!!!
Answer
seems like you're having a problem with the graphics card installed on your pc or it needs an update. try to run a windows up on your pc and check to see if it has a drive update for your graphics. also download the latest Direct X through the microsoft website. this should help resolve any gaming issues.
seems like you're having a problem with the graphics card installed on your pc or it needs an update. try to run a windows up on your pc and check to see if it has a drive update for your graphics. also download the latest Direct X through the microsoft website. this should help resolve any gaming issues.
while gaming monitor loses signal! help!!!?
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During most games the screen loses signal and goes black and sound goes too. Have to do hard reset.
Screen of bfbc2 goes completely black or sometimes flashes black and white and have to alt tab and close it completely.
During play of heroes of newearth the sound suddenly makes a screech as the screen either flashes black or goes black. It will resume its self after about 30 seconds but either with lag or the colours have been screwed up.
Graphics card works perfectly so its not that
Power supply is far greater than my pc need so its not that
and ram has been tested and is working perfectly
Could be anything else.
PC specs
Processor: intel core duo E6700
Mother board: Asus P5L1394
Ram: two1gb ddr2 sticks
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX
Power supply: cooler master extreme power plus 700W
and i meet the requirements for the games i play
lots of people say its because i dont have enough ram but i dont see how that would cause it.
oh yes jeff L im using win 7
Answer
I'm going to take a shot at this, even though it is really stupid of me to answer without actually testing your system. Remember that I'm guessing, but my guesses are based on more than 30 years of experience in electronics, around 20 years of experience in designing and building computer hardware, and around 30 years of computer programming.
First, you definitely do not have enough RAM. The minimum for any modern version of Windows and gaming is 4G. The symptoms that you are describing are classic RAM problems. Remember that your computer has dozens of hidden programs running at the same time.
Second, if the error were due to corrupted video RAM or any other hardware or driver issue, the system would not recover, ever. It would always require a reset.
What is probably happening is that your system is running out of RAM, and is caching to the hard drive. When that happens, your sound and video will mess up temporarily, then return, but you will experience severe speed degradation, I mean severe lag, until you reboot. I'm assuming that you are running MS Windows, but regardless, once the OS begins to cache to the hard drive, it does not stop until you reboot. Some people think that hibernating or sleeping is the same as shutting down their computer; but they are not. You must do an actual reboot or shutdown to end the caching.
If your video is messed up, and does not return correctly, as you described for newearth, it probably means that the video modes have been switched, and video RAM is corrupted. This is common, and is usually due to poor programming by the game developers, or bad drivers from manufacturer. Sometimes it is due to hardware glitches but not often. It probably happens because you ran out of RAM and the game programmers did not allow for a "graceful exit" upon unexpected errors. It could also be caused by a virus checker or some other program trying to pop up a message box or something.
You might try playing the games in the lowest resolution possible, and see if you can play them longer. Also try to stop as many background programs and services as possible, especially any memory intensive ones, any programs that create popup message boxes, any programs that start and stop unexpectedly, and any programs that access the hard-drive during gameplay.
There is no way to know for sure without actual testing, but I hope this gives you some ideas to go on, and helps you understand why lots of people say its RAM. There is much more to say about this, I wish someone else could elaborate on this. Good luck!
I'm going to take a shot at this, even though it is really stupid of me to answer without actually testing your system. Remember that I'm guessing, but my guesses are based on more than 30 years of experience in electronics, around 20 years of experience in designing and building computer hardware, and around 30 years of computer programming.
First, you definitely do not have enough RAM. The minimum for any modern version of Windows and gaming is 4G. The symptoms that you are describing are classic RAM problems. Remember that your computer has dozens of hidden programs running at the same time.
Second, if the error were due to corrupted video RAM or any other hardware or driver issue, the system would not recover, ever. It would always require a reset.
What is probably happening is that your system is running out of RAM, and is caching to the hard drive. When that happens, your sound and video will mess up temporarily, then return, but you will experience severe speed degradation, I mean severe lag, until you reboot. I'm assuming that you are running MS Windows, but regardless, once the OS begins to cache to the hard drive, it does not stop until you reboot. Some people think that hibernating or sleeping is the same as shutting down their computer; but they are not. You must do an actual reboot or shutdown to end the caching.
If your video is messed up, and does not return correctly, as you described for newearth, it probably means that the video modes have been switched, and video RAM is corrupted. This is common, and is usually due to poor programming by the game developers, or bad drivers from manufacturer. Sometimes it is due to hardware glitches but not often. It probably happens because you ran out of RAM and the game programmers did not allow for a "graceful exit" upon unexpected errors. It could also be caused by a virus checker or some other program trying to pop up a message box or something.
You might try playing the games in the lowest resolution possible, and see if you can play them longer. Also try to stop as many background programs and services as possible, especially any memory intensive ones, any programs that create popup message boxes, any programs that start and stop unexpectedly, and any programs that access the hard-drive during gameplay.
There is no way to know for sure without actual testing, but I hope this gives you some ideas to go on, and helps you understand why lots of people say its RAM. There is much more to say about this, I wish someone else could elaborate on this. Good luck!
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