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Black screen after playing Video Games
As the title says, I have this problem where, when I play a video game (mostly any video game) for some time, (It might be to a short 5 minute to a long 2 hour) my computer freezes and I get a black screen. When I push restart, the black screen is still there, so I have to push on "Shut down", I think this is called a hard reset.
I've been searching for help about this issue but it is completely futile. I've tried this thread in this same forum; Random Black screens and freezing with nVIDIA GTX 460
I'll have to say the story about this; I've never had this problem before until I got this new (now kind of old, 1 year old) computer. The old computer had an old motherboard that I don't even know which it was, but I'm sure it was ASUS' too. It also had an Intel Q8800. The rest were the same as today, such as the Nvidia GTX 285. Also, I have a different Power Box, the old one had 650w and this one has 800w, or 750w, not sure, if I need to be sure just tell.
The first time I experienced this problem was on a video game. Yes, this only happens on video games. I can't recall which video game it was first, probably "Heroes of Might & Magic V" or "The Elder Scrolls Oblivion".
Since then, I thought it was my videocard's problem, mostly the driver. I tried using different drivers, doing clean(er) installs and so on, then I thought I fixed it but I realized I didn't.
Right now, this problem is kind of "low" but it happens on my favourite games. It happens on Warcraft III and its expansion The Frozen Throne as well as Age of Mythology. For those that know it, and to be A LOT more specific, WC3 got the screen first when I saw the cinematic for Arthas talking about how he didn't visit that Elven city for a long time since he was a boy. Afterwards, doing something with Nvidia config, I somehow fixed the black screen problem but I know I didn't.
For the Frozen Throne, while playing Rexxar's campaign, I get the black screen at very random intervals.
For Age of Mythology, it crashed at that part where Ajax gets attacked by Trojan cavalry, right when I saved him and started building the base. Then it kept getting black screens out of nowhere. I had "Hardware Sound Acceleration" on, I disabled it, but I'm not too sure if that fixed it or not. Actually, it didn't at all.
Now, I have a theory that perhaps all these black screens are because of my faulty sound card, but I don't think I have a sound card, probably just the Motherboard one. It is Realtek's. As I said before, on that other thread, I tried removing Realtek too but no results at all.
On another note, I also have that "Nvidia Driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered" problem/crash, luckily this problem has stopped. (By the way, I'd rather have this problem than the Black Screen one, I'm sure you'd know why if you ever suffered both. Not saying that I wish I had both problems.)
So, here I am, struggling to fix this problem already. I'll do anything to fix it, but I am also hoping I won't get any MORE problems.
If more information is needed, I will provide it.
Are there any more ideas for this?
P.S. I put this thread on "General discussion" because I am unsure which problem it is, either driver's, graphics card, hardware, sound card, device and so on.
Last edited by Lolwutman; 16 Nov 2013 at 18:35.