Why do all my games freeze?

[amrit]

Hi, I recently made a PC and decided to load up some games. I first installed Burnout Paradise, started playing it at maxed settings when it froze for a second and then it started up again where it froze from.

I updated the graphics card driver and nothing changed, it always freezes after a few mins for a few seconds.

Could it be a faulty graphics card? or just some settings I need to change?

I have a XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB Graphics Card.

Thanks.

 

[richc46]

Test memory

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Test each stick for 6 passes, then take a good stick and test the slots.

 

[amrit]

I tested the RAM and they're all fine, no errors.

 

[Fumz]

What's your monitor's resolution?

 

[amrit]

1280x1024

At the moment im connected to the TV.

 

[steve-pressman]

Are you over clocking your Graphic card ? If so try reverting to the stock setting and see if the problem still happens. If it does get back to us.


Steve

 

[amrit]

Im not overclocking, I recently made this PC and haven't changed any settings at all.

 

[DirtRider]

Well I had the same card for a week or so and had the same issue and went through pages and pages of how to fix it. After trying every thing mentioned on two Win7 forums plus from the manufactures web site I finally changed back to NVIDIA. All the years I only ran NVIDIA and this was my first ATI card I had ever tried.

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/103399-ati-nvidia.html

CPU intel i7 920 @ 2.66gHz + Graphics Card Radeon HD 5770 1GB

Nearly the same configuration I had

This may help you I hope so 5770 very slow in games, fine otherwise - ATI - Graphic-Displays

 

[amrit]

Could it be the hard drive? Im using a old segate 320GB hard drive, I have ordered a 500gb cavair black hard drive. I will let you know if it works.

 

[amrit]

I was just playing cod4 online and it didn't freeze. It's only single player that freezes.

 

[richc46]

Could the game be defective or have high RAM usage?

 

[amrit]

The ram usage is quite low it goes up to about 23%, and when I open task manager the ram usage is about 2.3gb. (I have 6gb tri-channel)

Is this normal?

 

[richc46]

Based upon your information, it seems to be only one game. If you play online it could be the website, if you installed the software there could be a problem with that. Can you play on another comptuer for a test? Make a system resotore point first, so that it can be removed with no problems.

That is normal RAM usage, not out of line.

 

[amrit]

I just got a error message saying the AMD driver stopped working but recovered, this happened right after the screen went blank with the game running.

 

[richc46]

I would, then download the most current driver. Get it at the game website.