your gfx card is too fast for the processer i think its somethig like this when your processer is running at the high speed with your gfx card and when u are running a game your processer speeds up with your gfx card so now when it comes to stop the game the cpu is moving too fst like whne u slam the brakes of a car at 100 miles per hour it would take time to slow down it would then hit into the on comming tree somehting like your processer it is moving too fast to slow down so it just restarts u need to upgrage your processer i am not a 100% sure but i think its that
having your GFX card be too fast for the processor is BS, GFX cards do primarily graphics related work, while the processor coordinates stuff in modern games, runs physics engines etc. you can run HL2 on a p4 1.7 ghz proc fine. an Axp 3000+ is more than good enough, my a64 3000+ does nto seemt o cause lag in games at all unless I am running something intensive in the background. unless you are refering to the enviroment 7 or 8 years ago when the CPU was stressed a lot more in gaming due to GFX cards being relative crap back in the day, that is entirely wrong and even then, having a more modern GFX card would take work off of the CPU if the game enviroment was similar to how it was back in 99. in sum, there is no such thing as a too powerful part, if he got a crappy graphics card insteed, the only thing that would happen is that he would have lower frame rates and would lag in graphically intensive scenes
I see, xelink, i can play this game on my other computer that is a Pentium 4, 1.0 ghZ, its just that someting weird is happening on this one... although, a mobo and COU upgrade is more than necisary. Socket A is just crap...
dude i heard cases of it at a computer place where i helped out during summer for some cash when they updated the cpu it worked fine
never the less a lot of advice you give is crap. only reason why a CPU update might have helped in the instrance is because the CPU was unstable from damage due to overheating, excess OCing, etc.
k, I swapped the memory from my dad's computer, same diff. I want to fix this damn thing.... :censored: I just put a new Zalman cpu fan in, so it does not overheat, sure of that... nothing in my damn system overheats...grr... I might bring this into a refurb place, see what they think.
actually, if i do upgrade it, I would have to upgrade my mobo as well... Socket A is dieing out... I need at least a 939 board and cpu. but I want to wait for awhile, until i can afford a whole new build. I'll be needing a new hdd (probably sata), a new DVD burner (probably a NEC one), new gfx (PCI-e), etc. The prices should go down in a few months... Plus I'm possibly going to finally get a higher paying job, so I'll have money in a few months. I can possibly run the game on my other computer. I don't care, I'll be a bit busy with my new site anyways...
