11/29/2010

Why...

All my games (X-Com, Fallout New Vegas, Left for Dead 2) that i've been playing recently (barring Civ5) crashes to desktop constantly. I see my pc resources used up nearly 100% which is probably why its crashing.

What are my options to preventing this?
My pc is overclocked, so i'm wondering how much a difference it will make to unclock it.
Maybe it is Steam that is the cause of the crash?
Maybe it is just pc games in general are more buggey?
Maybe I need to upgrade my pc, ram (2 gigs), video card GEForce 8800), processor 3.GHz?
I have the most up to date video drivers and have uninstalled and reinstalled the games.
Maybe I need to reformat my pc...?

Any suggestions?

3 comments:

  1. BronteNovember 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM

    I know this will wound like a broken record, but I cannot stress the importance of a competent virus-checker.

    I have had to rebuild my PC from scratch four times in the last 9 years. Three was because of a virus that wrecked everything. Once was an unfortunate spill.

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  2. GrimnirNovember 30, 2010 at 7:36 AM

    You need an upgrade. Newer games are going to rock your video card, make your processor cry, and eat all you nomnomnom RAM right up. Hell, you probably just need a new PC.

    If you want to start on an upgrade path, put another 4GB of RAM in it. That'd be 6GB total, and would probably only run about 100$. I'd say a new GPU would be up after that (which usually comes with a PSU upgrade).

    Or get just play console games until 2015 since that's apparently when the next gen consoles are coming out. =/

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  3. JomuNovember 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM

    thanks guys
    i was thinking ram; or somehow connect my 360 to my pc monitor, just don't really know how to do that

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