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Computer freezing in the game Dark Age of Camelot

For starters here are the specs of my computer-

Radeon 9600 XT
P4 3.06 ghz
1 Gig Mushkin RAM (two 512 sticks)
Abit IS7 Mobo
Windows XP
Dlink Wireless Card

Ok.. my computer I've had for about 6-8 months and up until about a week ago I have never had a problem with it. Basically I will be playing Dark Age of Camelot (DAOC) and the computer will lock up entirely. The amount of time seems to be completely random.. sometimes it's 5 minutes sometimes it goes all day without this happening.

So far I have tried.. new memory/new cpu/reloading windows XP/redoing all the drivers/windows xp SP2... and nothing has worked.

Also I haven't once experienced the computer crashing while not running the game. I also don't play any other games so I wouldnt' be able to tell you if it freezes in anything else or not.

Thanks!
Nick

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markoid

ok where to stat. Games freezes can come from many number of issues. Things to check
1) is there a patch for the game ?
2) are you running the latest drivers fro the video card and sound card
3) are you running the latest SP and directx ver
4) disable AGP fast writes in the BIOS

adaware

You also could have a very fragmented paging file, try diskeeper, and do a boot-time defragmenting

NickBottomley

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I changed out my video card for another I had lying around.. and I haven't had a lockup in over a day so I'm 99.9% sure this was the problem. I'm not sure what it could be that's wrong with the card.. I guess they just go bad sometimes? Because it definately wasn't overheating.. strange. Now I am just hoping that the place where I got it will exchange it for me (they have been good about this sort of thing in the past). Thanks guys appreciate it!