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Utterly confused(games freezing)
I installed a fresh copy of windows 7 64 bit 2 months ago on my brand new custom built PC and have been experiencing freezing issues in games.
The game will freeze for a few seconds the screen will flash and continue like normal or crash to desktop. Ill get a message in the taskbar tray "ati drivers have stopped responding but have recovered".
The thing that has me really confused is i have 4 games that don't do this at all.
Risen
Oblivion
Titan quest
Counter strike source
Ninty percent of the time it will do it in the first 2 mins of booting up the game if it does it at all. Here are the games that experience the issue.
Mass effect 1 and 2
Bioshock 2
Sims 3
Dragon age origins
Fallout 3
The freeze/crash seems to be completely random(if it doesn't do it at boot up). Sometimes i can play these 6 games for hours with no problems.
I have tired 9.6,9.10,9.12,10.1 and 10.2 cat drivers. Im pretty sure i have the newest drivers for all the main components(audio,chipset, bios etc). My CPU is overclocked by 20 percent. My video card is not overclocked. Ive tried doing a clean boot with msconfig and uninstalling catalyst control center.
Anyone have any idea why those 4 games give me no problems?