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Problems with Games recently
I've just run into occasional problems recently. Not sure if its the OS, Win 7 conflict or what.
Started about a month ago with steam games, Mafia 2, SR 3..occasionally, maybe once a day or once every other day, screen would freeze/lockup totally. To the point that mouse pointer would freeze, alt/con/delete wouldn't word and I had to do a hard restart by holding in the PC button. It seemed to happen mainly when character was in motion, running, driving etc..
First I thought it was a Steam conflict but it happened occasionally too on Dragon Age 2 and every once in a while while surfing the net on safe, reliable pages..you'd switch pages and move your mouse pointer from one side of the page to the other and then it would freeze.
This only happens occasionally..
Its a Dell quad core bought in Feb 2011, ATI card 5700 series, 1gb ram..
Wondered if this sounds like a dusty video card, mouse or keyboard problem, or the OS/Win 7 needs to be reinstalled totally?
Hasn't happened in a couple of days but I guess if it continues, maybe I should reinstall the OS?
Reinstalling is a pain naturally but I'd rather do that then do these hard restarts.
Of course, I'd hate to reinstall and find out it was meaningless to do so, that something else was causing this...
Any thoughts or tips on this issue? Thanks!