Game freezes

[andymartin1000]

Hi,

Whenever I start playing Rome, the games freezes up within about five minutes. I've downloaded the most uptodate drivers for my graphics card and installed patch 1.1, but this makes no difference to the problem. Basically everything stops - sound, graphics etc. I'm unable to close the program down by pressing ctrl, alt & del. The only way I can unfreeze is by switching my PC off at the mains and then rebooting. I've attached my DxDiag file to the post and would appreciate some assistance.

Thanks, Andy

 

[AndrewT]

Can we see your settings.txt and system.log files please.

But you could try editing settings.txt and set master_volume=-1, which disables all sound. If that helps, look for an update to your sound driver.

 

[andymartin1000]

I've attached the settings.txt and system.log (zipped - it won't let me upload as .log) files as requested. I'll also try changing the sound settinds as you suggested and let you know how I get on,

Thanks,
Andy

 

[AndrewT]

Well this one is a puzzle, I see no problems in there at all. If the sound thing makes no difference, I begin to suspect a hardware problem. Do you have any temperature sensing on your PC? If not, install one like http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php and see what it says.

 

[andymartin1000]

Changing the sound settings hasn't made any difference. I downloaded SpeedFan as recommended and after the freeze (following reboot) a temperature is shown for the graphics card of around 120 deg C (fan much noisier than usual), which then cools to around 100 deg.

Andy

 

[AndrewT]

Good lord, it should be less than 60 degrees. You have a real cooling problem there.

 

[andymartin1000]

By way of an update, I've upgraded my graphics card from an nVidia 6200LE to an nVidia 8600GT and the problem seems to have resolved itself.

 

[AndrewT]

Great to hear, thanks for the feedback. You must have had a hardware problem with the old card, either caused by or causing the extreme temps you were seeing.