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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited November 2011 in Graphical and Sound Issues
Hi

when playing STO after just a few minuets (15-20mins) the game crashes..my screen goes blank (displays a dark cream or blue colour) and a strange noise comes out of the speakers.

I then have to switch of my PC manually and then reboot. I have an alienware aurora 6 gig ram Nvidia GTS 240 1GB an intel i7 2.4ghz..its a pretty well specd PC just don't understand the crashing..when i first got the game last april (that's when i got the PC) i could play for hours and it was fine.

the problem then started happening on other games im playing aswell. I have updated my video card drives but still no success. I'm not a very technical person
any help on solving this problem would help.

thanks.:(
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2011
    Hello my friend,
    Try to see if your cooling system is ok , check fan for CPU , GPU , chassis , use an air blower to clean up dust from all the cooling parts .
    **** down the PC , open your pc case side , boot up , and look if all fans are working. Looks like heating problems.

    If all fans and cooling parts are ok , then , you may have to check memory , cpu , gpu , there are some utilities ( search web ) for memory , cpu , gpu stress tests.

    Hope I helped you
    Sebastian.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2011
    I'm gonna throw my 2 cents in here .....

    Do you know what version of the dirvers you are using??

    Open up the Nvidia Control Panel and select HELP then SYSTEM INFO

    I ask because I recently installed 285.58 (released October 24, 2011) and it was giving me issues. I would startd the game and play for a bit then logged off, when i tried to log back on I would get a D3D error message when the game tried to load. I would have to reboot my PC to get the game to work again. The NVIDIA Helper thing would also stop responding every now and then.

    So I uninstalled all the NVIDIA stuff thru the control panel and reinstalled drivers 280.26 (released August 9, 2011) which I had been running just fine since it was releases. You can get the older drivers here;

    http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

    It's worth a shot ..... I'm runnin a GTS250 but the drivers are the same for both cards.
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