My games hangs up, and I have to force shut down!

I have the zepto 6224 with 2,0 ghz, 2 gb ram and vista home premium. Some games hangs up and I'll have to force shutdown. Games like c&c generals zero hour, hitman blood money and bioshock.
Sometimes the games freezes the first 5 minutes, or I can play for hours and then suddenly it freezes.

The picture freezes totally, and the sound goes on and on in repeate.
I don't think it's a hardware issue, but i don't know. Really hope it's a vista fault or something.

Please help me ;\

 

im not sure...im no expert but it almost sounds like what my brothers computer was doing when it was overheating. have you been monitoring your temperatures?

 

It sounds like either the graphics driver or Vista.

There are two Vista patches mentioned here which include improved reliability with display drivers. Also look in the threads about the 6225WD regarding the most recent Nvidia driver.

John

 

im absolutely positive it's not overheating. the problem occurrs on really low temperatures

 

I had this problem mostly on my desktop and once on my laptop. Its that when your playing a game the game freezes and you hear the sound and everything yea, even sometimes after forcing to shutdown the game the sound still remains yea?.


I fixed this by doing the following, dont know if all of these steps are neccesary but it worked for me so yea.

Uninstall your driver, restart, reinstall preferable the 163.44 from laptopvideo2go.com and restart again

Uninstall your sound card driver, restart, install the latest updated drivers for your sound card, if its realtek HD audio get them from the realtek site and then restart again.

Apply the following patches
http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html
(dont install #2 since your not running SLI) and restart

Hopefully the prob should have gone by now

Let me know how this goes for ya

 

I got that issue as well on Win XP with 163.44...
I think it's the driver though, cause it only began since I switched to 163.44

 

Weird, I've got 163.44 also but never had any problems in games. You could also try the newest driver in the 15x series from nvidia.

 

i get an error when im trying to install the: 163.44_forceware_winvista_32bit_english_beta.exe
Somethine about the system can't recognize my vga-drivers. :\

I get errors when i try to download the vista patches John Ratsey posted earlier in the thread. then i get the error: "this update is not for your system". (it's on Norwegian, have some problems translating it )

 

you download the drivers 163.44, download the modded inf file, extract the drivers, replace the modded inf and then run setup.exe

try the vista patches i mentioned in my post

also this update is not for your system means its already installed

 

u dont understand, 16.344 are installed. it's not the drivers im installing but the nvidia hotfix, i get errors saying it's not compatible with my drivers.
Same goes for the vista patches, wtf!?