Games crash.

eXg. focus · Post by **eXg. focus** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:13 pm

My COD4 and Assassin's Creed games keep crashing my computer. They'll lock-up, the sound will skip for a second while video is frozen, and I have to use the reset button to get out. No CTRL+ALT+DEL or ALT+TAB, or ALT+F4 will work.

The post-processing on these games looks very similar, so I'm wondering if they're built on the same game engine. I haven't really looked to heavy in to that, but in every other application, everything runs fine.

I've got my fan set to 100% and my GPU is not overclocked. I don't get any artifacts, so I'm thinking the GPU itself should be mostly ok.
Any input is appreciated.

Post by **CaMeL** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:14 pm

hey b, try looking in the application event log and post your findings. quick way to get to the event log start>run>eventvwr then hit ok.

the hex error code should give us some clue.

supercat1 · Post by **supercat1** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:42 pm

i can at least tell you focus that they are definitely not the same engine. cod4 is built on a proprietary infinity ward engine (that was also used for cod5) while assassin's creed is another proprietary engine.

post-processing is easy to make look similar because the math behind those shaders is all the same, just the level that the developers take it to.

however, i have had issues with cod4 freezing up on me, and it happens probably at least once a night. i have no solution for it, other than to wait it out as it tends to eventually un-lock up. tf2 does the same thing to me.

assassin's creed i believe just has been bug ridden on pc from the get go.

Post by **CaMeL** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:44 pm

supercat1 ill fix your problem when i get there

eXg. focus · Post by **eXg. focus** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:17 pm

Thanks guys. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it's not the end of the world.

supercat1 · Post by **supercat1** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:36 pm

eXg. CaMeL wrote:supercat1 ill fix your problem when i get there

oh i know you will. i can't wait for you to unfreeze my tf2.

BugZz · Post by **BugZz** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:52 am

if you have and creative sound card uninstall the sound drivers and reinstall. It'll fix your prolbem

eXg. focus · Post by **eXg. focus** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:46 pm

BugZz wrote:if you have and creative sound card uninstall the sound drivers and reinstall. It'll fix your prolbem

I honestly suspect there's something to this. I had to do that for WoW

supercat1 · Post by **supercat1** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:06 pm

i believe that also helped my problem a little by reinstalling my sound drivers. also, another common sound problem is make sure that if you have a realtek onboard chipset to disable and remove all drivers for it. i think that was a cod4 issue when the game was released back then.

Post by **CaMeL** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:14 pm

i had to disable the front jacks in the realtek application before i could play cod4 or cod5.

Post by **eXg. Pun1sher** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:41 pm

I had the same issues on the old Pun1shment rig, and had to purge all vid drivers, and reload.

BugZz · Post by **BugZz** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:20 pm

eXg. focus wrote:
BugZz wrote:if you have and creative sound card uninstall the sound drivers and reinstall. It'll fix your prolbem
I honestly suspect there's something to this. I had to do that for WoW

Dont feel bad i play WoW too