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.

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.

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.

supercat1 ill fix your problem when i get there

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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