e46_m3
Established Member
My current set up is:
Core 2 Quad 6600
Asus P5B
4GB RAM
1GB BFG GTX280
500GB Seagate SATA300 32MB cache HDD with 450GB free space
650W PSU
Creative Xi-Fi Xtreme Audio
Vista 32 bit SP1
DX10
I am totally peeved with PC gaming - my old set up (core 2 duo and 8800GT) used to do weird things in games so I bought a new CPU, PSU, graphics card and HDD and still the same things happen. Im running the latest Nvidia drivers (7.15.11.7813 - not Beta drivers) from their website and Vista was reinstalled from scratch yesterday so what could cause this?
When Im playing a game (UT3 just now for example) the game either just freezes up or the screen goes all different colours like purples and reds etc so its unplayable - only way to make it go away is to ctrl-alt-del (but not end the process/task) and then when I go back everything is back to normal and works ok for another few mins till it happens again making the game almost unplayable.
Any ideas? I thought it was my old set up not being powerful enough but its obviously not that and after spending over 500 quid on an upgrade Im well ****** that its still not working and games are virtually unplayable - the only common pieces between old and new are the mobo, soundcard and RAM and everything else has been replaced.
I havent tried it in any other games as this is exactly the same as what it did before on my old setup but I know if I install anything else Im going to get the same problem(s). It doesnt do anything anywhere else except in games hence my original thinking it might have been maybe the graphics card but this is brand spanking new and a GTX280 should wee all over UT3 without any problems.........
Help me - please
Core 2 Quad 6600
Asus P5B
4GB RAM
1GB BFG GTX280
500GB Seagate SATA300 32MB cache HDD with 450GB free space
650W PSU
Creative Xi-Fi Xtreme Audio
Vista 32 bit SP1
DX10
I am totally peeved with PC gaming - my old set up (core 2 duo and 8800GT) used to do weird things in games so I bought a new CPU, PSU, graphics card and HDD and still the same things happen. Im running the latest Nvidia drivers (7.15.11.7813 - not Beta drivers) from their website and Vista was reinstalled from scratch yesterday so what could cause this?
When Im playing a game (UT3 just now for example) the game either just freezes up or the screen goes all different colours like purples and reds etc so its unplayable - only way to make it go away is to ctrl-alt-del (but not end the process/task) and then when I go back everything is back to normal and works ok for another few mins till it happens again making the game almost unplayable.
Any ideas? I thought it was my old set up not being powerful enough but its obviously not that and after spending over 500 quid on an upgrade Im well ****** that its still not working and games are virtually unplayable - the only common pieces between old and new are the mobo, soundcard and RAM and everything else has been replaced.
I havent tried it in any other games as this is exactly the same as what it did before on my old setup but I know if I install anything else Im going to get the same problem(s). It doesnt do anything anywhere else except in games hence my original thinking it might have been maybe the graphics card but this is brand spanking new and a GTX280 should wee all over UT3 without any problems.........
Help me - please