Hi folks, Strange sort of problem I is having. Quite often when I try to play the game CODW@W my comp locks up completely to such an extent that the only way out is the big red switch. The problem is much more evident when running and testing my own map I am making. Sometimes I can even see when it is about to lock up as the screen gives a quick flicker, sometimes it even locks up just running through the startup menus etc. When I get the damn game up and running it can quite easily run through several levels of online mp with no bother.. (sometimes)
Now, if anyone was to pose this problem to me I would imediately say "graphic card driver problem" and have indeed tried just about every driver I can find (at the mo running the very latest nvid drivers)
Last night I uninstalled AVG av just to eliminate that as the cause of the prob.
Sometimes I can see it is going to lock up as the mouse pointer jerks as I am making menu selections.
The game is now fully patched btw, but the problem existed before any of the patches.

My system = AMD Athlon (tm) 64X2 dual
2 gig ram
Win XP PRO + sp2
NVID Geforce 8600 GTS card
MSI V Class mobo
HD has 84 gig free and is defragged every week
Direct X 9c
Psu should well up to it according to son Azz (who incidentaly put the system together for me)
Other games are fine It simply murders Crysis on quite high settings.


Game settings Vid 1152 X 864 (19" crt monitor)
screen refresh = 72 HZ
Aspect ratio = auto
Anti aliasing = 2X
Sync every frame = no
dual vid cards = no
shadows = yes
Specular map = yes
Ocean Sim = yes
Dinamic foliage = no
Bullet impacts = yes
Texture filtering = auto
Anistropic filtering = (on minimum)
Texture quality = auto

Can anyone offer a cure, (be polite please rofl)

cheers doa

I had a similar problem with lock-ups and crashes in CoDWaW (and CoD4 to a lesser extent). Turns out my graphics card (8800GTX) was dying. It eventually gave up altogether and I've replaced it with a shiny new 9800GTX+ - not had any problems so far.

Yup, sounds like the vid card as lostjohnny mentioned DoA. Have you tried grabbing some video card testing software? There's lots out there or you can try using dxdiag to see if that picks up the errors.

Cheers

many thanks lost and fox.

Sounds daft I know but I have a spare exact same card that azz used to have in his comp, I have tried swapping them! it makes no difference, the game still locks up exactly the same way. Prior to him getting his new card we even swapped them between each others comps and mine in his gave no probs for him at all. We even run the same drivers.
We even swapped memory modules ,, once again no probs for him,
I even thought on the lines of maybe it was a heat problem but this case has more fans than the follies ! and if it was a heat problem one would expect it to cause problems with other programs. Its just CODW@W

I have looked in dxdiag fox m8... nothing untoward shows up there either...... Its a one of those wierd intermittent probs, as I said sometimes I can run the game and crack on doing a lot of dying with no problems!
Times are hard (cash wise) so a new card is probably out of the question at the mo.
Azz seems to think it could be the mobo..... anyone got any thoughts on that?

cheers doa

Hey,,,! I just had a crackin good idea... why dont I try his brand spanking new GeForce 9600 in mine !!! (1 gig of DDR3 onboard) that may prove sumpin either way eh?

edited on Mar. 13, 2009 12:29 pm by DadofAzz

Naaa couldn't make any difference there buddy.

Let us know what happens.

Cheers