I've been having trouble running a few games recently. What happens is that, randomly after playing the game for a while, my computer goes into this weird state similar to BSOD without the BSOD. It locks up, the fans start cycling on and off quickly and the only way to leave this state is by holding down the power button. Off the top of my head, these games include Half Life 2, Portal 2, Cities XL 2012. Within the same time period, I have played LoL, WoW, SC2 and other games regularly without this problem.
Things I have done to try to solve this problem is that I have updated my video card drivers, my sound card codec (?), I've been running a temp monitoring utility as well. The video card runs at 65-66 degrees C when outside games and very often gets to 99 degrees C when in games. Again, getting to 99 degrees happens with a bunch of other games without any problems (that I know of).
I tried running the FurMark VGA Stress test and the computer locks up every time after 10 seconds. This basically proves to me that it is the video card. It seems to lock up the computer whenever the video card temp reaches 102 degrees.
The computer is relatively new (4-5 months old) so I'm not sure what is causing this. Here are some specs that might be a bit helpful:
Total amount of system memory 8.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Total available graphics memory 4095 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 3071 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.17.12.8562
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1200
Secondary monitor resolution 1280x1024
DirectX version DirectX 10
Network Adapter Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)
What do you think?
Things I have done to try to solve this problem is that I have updated my video card drivers, my sound card codec (?), I've been running a temp monitoring utility as well. The video card runs at 65-66 degrees C when outside games and very often gets to 99 degrees C when in games. Again, getting to 99 degrees happens with a bunch of other games without any problems (that I know of).
I tried running the FurMark VGA Stress test and the computer locks up every time after 10 seconds. This basically proves to me that it is the video card. It seems to lock up the computer whenever the video card temp reaches 102 degrees.
The computer is relatively new (4-5 months old) so I'm not sure what is causing this. Here are some specs that might be a bit helpful:
Total amount of system memory 8.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Total available graphics memory 4095 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 3071 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.17.12.8562
Primary monitor resolution 1920x1200
Secondary monitor resolution 1280x1024
DirectX version DirectX 10
Network Adapter Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)
What do you think?