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Re: Game Locks Up PC !!!!!

• ScratchMyBalllz 12 Posts

  Fri, Apr 19 2013 11:19 PM

  Posting this to see if anyone else has had this issue and maybe could shine some light on the problem.

   

  My game will occasionally lock up my computer and force to me to do a hard reboot.

  1. I have tried Maxthon4, Commodo Dragon, Firefox, Chrome, IE and still get the same issue.

  2. Pop up blocker disabled.

  3. Flash up to date and cache size set to over 100kb

  I even did a reformat of Windows 7 64bit and still that didnt help. I use the same computer to play Battlefield 3 and other FPS games with no issues, but nothing but headache with WGT.

   

  System Specs:

  CPU:FX 6300 (3.5), 16 gig DDR3, GTX 580 vid card, 128 gig SSD and 1TB HD ( I have even tried  launching browser from both drives) 

  I can play the game with no issues from work on crappy pc with XP, may have to just bring that junk home to play.

  I have no temperature issues, makes no sense..........if anyone has any ideas would be appreciated, Thanks!

• keidan 311 Posts

  Sat, Apr 20 2013 10:50 AM

  Hard to pin down with the number of possibilities.  All I can suggest to start is to run your task manager and monitor your performance while you're playing.  A freeze requiring hard reboot may be due to the OS running out of resources (memory) or some other program stepping on memory allocated to running the OS. Another possibility is that your current graphics card/driver is not keeping up with the newer versions of programs demanding graphics resources. 

  If your memory usage is not maxing out (where you can chase down the memory hogs) then you can start to investigate why a specific program is the problem.  Obviously the less stuff running in background the better.  Check that your graphics card has the latest driver for your system. 

  And finally, you may have to take more time and start digging deeper into log files / crash reports to troubleshoot the problem with plenty of online resources to guide you.  A machine like yours where you run a number of games demanding most of your system resources (per game) will tend to run into conflicts now and then e.g. shutting down a game does not necessarily mean that it "let's go" of the resources/memory allocated to it (rebooting after finishing a game is always a good idea before moving on to something else).  Good luck!

  -Keith 

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Sat, Apr 20 2013 11:12 AM

  Could be a few things causing this.

  The drivers in your graphics card could need updating.

  Be sure your using the correct Bit version of Flash for your computer. For example, if you're using a 64 Bit version of Windows, you'll need to download the 64 Bit version of Flash. You can read more about this here.

  You can also try using this older version of Flash player. 10.3.183.75

• borntobesting 9,774 Posts

  Sat, Apr 20 2013 11:22 AM

  If you can run the game on a old PC with no problems then you have something on  your new PC that is causing the problem with WGT. As Richard said check out your drivers. Also you might run a diagnosis on the drive that had flash installed it to see if there is a problem  with it, Even though you have your browsers on both drives, flash should only be installed on one drive. If  you do by some chance have flash installed on both drives that might be your problem if you do and the versions are different they could be causing a conflict that is causing your PC to freeze. 

• ScratchMyBalllz 12 Posts

  Sat, Apr 20 2013 11:30 AM

  Thanks for the feedback, there are a few suggestions I hadnt tried....crazy thing is, I could play a few days in a row with no issues, then I may lock up 3+ times in just a few hours.