07-26-2005, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-26-2005, 04:01 PM by [CAKE]anonymity.)
i've been running wow and hl2 for quite some time. I got my wow account in aprill and even before that I was playing on my sisters. I got hl2 when it came out.
I have wow installed on my slave hd and hl2 on my master. I set up my room fan and took of the sides of the case to help cool it off. I started hl2 and i was able to get to the end of red letter day, so about 45 minutes before it frooze. Then I logged on to wow and was only able to play for 10 minutes the first time, then 15 the second before the freeze. After each freeze i rebooted then logged back into the game as soon as possible. This is why I dont think its an over heating issue.
Some video issues, I have had these issues before with this driver. On wow everything in the envoirnment and the automap flashes pretty frequently. Then after a short while it freezes. On hl2 the opening sequence with the gman wont display any video except some flashes, but runs the audio fine. Once I see the text "point insertion" everything is fine. On the menu screen I had a massive FPS drop and the audio would be really skippy (As if it were about to chrash, but never does). I turned the shader detail from high to low, and that fixed the menu issue. Hl2 also gets a very similar thing when I go underwater. This is what leads me to believe its a video problem.
I have wow installed on my slave hd and hl2 on my master. I set up my room fan and took of the sides of the case to help cool it off. I started hl2 and i was able to get to the end of red letter day, so about 45 minutes before it frooze. Then I logged on to wow and was only able to play for 10 minutes the first time, then 15 the second before the freeze. After each freeze i rebooted then logged back into the game as soon as possible. This is why I dont think its an over heating issue.
Some video issues, I have had these issues before with this driver. On wow everything in the envoirnment and the automap flashes pretty frequently. Then after a short while it freezes. On hl2 the opening sequence with the gman wont display any video except some flashes, but runs the audio fine. Once I see the text "point insertion" everything is fine. On the menu screen I had a massive FPS drop and the audio would be really skippy (As if it were about to chrash, but never does). I turned the shader detail from high to low, and that fixed the menu issue. Hl2 also gets a very similar thing when I go underwater. This is what leads me to believe its a video problem.