Need help please!

[1low_s10]

ok so I been fighting with max payne game it keeps crashing?so I thought it was the game but now I doubt it!I borrowed a neighbors game awhile back AHR(american hot rod) street drag,so I was playing that then all of a sudden it freezes making this funny noise then it reboots my pc.Now I have an ultra pc with a biostar p4m800 motherboard,and yes all my drivers are updated!now heres whats funny before anyone says I cant run games on this,I have in the past with no problems now they all freeze?can someone help?

[Tuteuk]

ok so I been fighting with max payne game it keeps crashing?so I thought it was the game but now I doubt it!I borrowed a neighbors game awhile back AHR(american hot rod) street drag,so I was playing that then all of a sudden it freezes making this funny noise then it reboots my pc.Now I have an ultra pc with a biostar p4m800 motherboard,and yes all my drivers are updated!now heres whats funny before anyone says I cant run games on this,I have in the past with no problems now they all freeze?can someone help?

if you are using the onboard video.....64Mb is not enuff to run some of the newer games out there,

After cruzing the max payne website it would seem I am right..


Q: Does Max Payne require a 3D accelerator?
A: MAX-FX engine is built from the ground up to take full advantage of 3D acceleration. There is no software renderer in the game.
Q: What about OpenGL?
A: We're supporting DirectX only, because of its much broader support, which will greatly lessen compatibility issues for players. And DirectX's current state allows for all the speed and functionality of OpenGL.
Q: What are the system requirements?


A: Minimum (minimum graphical detail):450 MHz Intel/AMD Processor (or compatible)96 MB RAM 16 MB Direct3D Compatible Graphics Card
Recommended (Medium graphical detail):700 MHz Intel/AMD Processor (or compatible) 128 MB RAM 32 MB Direct3D Compatible Graphics Card Hope this helps..

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[1low_s10]

Q: What are the system requirements?



A: Minimum (minimum graphical detail):450 MHz Intel/AMD Processor (or compatible)96 MB RAM 16 MB Direct3D Compatible Graphics Card Recommended (Medium graphical detail):700 MHz Intel/AMD Processor (or compatible) 128 MB RAM 32 MB Direct3D Compatible Graphics Card Hope this helps..

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well my pc is a p4 3 gig 800 khz running 1024 mb ram and I have a 3d accelerator and is running 32 mb and like I said a few months back I ran the game and it played fine my american hot rod street drag even freezes now? havent even tried my NFSmw with the cd! and when I ran this game before I was only running 512 mb rams? so I am lost and like I said all my drivers are up to date!

[Tuteuk]

sounds to me a registy sweep and maybe a virus scan and check your start up files, try Spybot S&D...it works great

[1low_s10]

rann all those scans nothing really comes up I ran spybot earlier and only found 1 thing I defragged and still crashing my games?

[87wildside]

Stop playing games.

[12sws27]

buy a new computer

[1low_s10]

sorry no to both,if I have to within the next couple weeks Ill buy a video card just good enough to play simple games like max payne american hot rod and nfsmw!

[12sws27]

then just buy a XBOX 360

[Joker2040]

I would go for a new graphics card... I'm thinking about upgrading mine myself

[Stickdeath08]

What kind of noise are we talking about? Is it a clicking type noise?

If it is, it's your hard drive... I had an 80g hard drive from Western Digital a while back and played some CSS and CoD:4 on it and after a few weeks of buying the hard drive while playing CSS my game locked up and my computer started making awful clicking noises and the computer shuts off and restarts itself... I even put my hands over my head because I thought something was about to blow up.

At first I just put up with it but after awhile the computer would reset and when it tried to reboot it couldn't find the hard drive at all.

Best thing I can say is if you're running XP, pop the XP CD in and go to the repair option. Run a checkdisk I think the command in the console is chkdsk. If the check comes back with a corrupt hard drive it should recommend you to fix the problem. I did this and it ran good... for a week. I did it again and it worked for 3 days and it got worst from there so I backed up what I could off the hard drive and threw it away in the trash and bought a 320gb from tigerdirect for like 45 bucks and haven't had problems with it.

[1low_s10]

no its not a clicking type noise its like if you down load a song and you play it and the song freezes its that type of noise.everytime my pc restarts it starts just fine,when they crash I get the black and blue screen.

[crazzyyredneck]

Video Card Issue most likely, Tryt uninstalling and reinstalling Direct X. Re-install video drivers. Upgrade your video if you can, maybe go with at least a geforce 7600, Im running a 7900GTX, pretty decent card, probably check newegg, Got mine for $150

[1low_s10]

Imma look for one under $100 dont have to be superb but at least a decent card

[1low_s10]

ok in my even viewer for my hotrod game here is the info I got!
date 5/6/2008 source application error
time 5:42:36 pm category none
type error event id 1000
Descripton
Faulting application hotrod.exe version0.0.0.0,faulting module d3d8.dll,version 5.3.2600.2180
fault address 0004ee3f.

[C4Tom]

Go to newegg.com

I just saw a 256meg 8800gt card for $100... it's pci-e though.

Try uninstalling and a reinstall??

[1low_s10]

yea I can only run pci or agp on here!