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Crysis. Farcry. UT 2004. GTA San Andreas. All have one thing in common- they close after a short period of time. They freeze. Then close. I am doing nothing but playing the game. First it was FarCry way back when. Now it's a plethora of titles just not wanting to be consistent. What is wrong? Nothing is going on in the background, except, that is..CPUMon. But come on now, all of these games? What...

My guess - aliens are in your computer, conspiring with the Illuminati. I could be more helpful if you gave us your system specs. What are you running these games on? Let us know if you are overclocking, or added anything to the system. You could just need to open the case up and blow the dust out. I blame the first sentence on Last FM, they were playing The Dictators "...

My system specs: Asus P5N-E SLi Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Corsair XMS 2GB (4-4-4-12 2T) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB eVGA GeForce 8800GT Creative X-Fi Platinum Logitech Z-5500 Saitek Eclipse Logitech MX Revolution Rosewill 51-in-1 card reader Linksys WRT54GL wireless router Generic CD Drive Windows XP Home Edition, 32-bit I clean my case more ...

Thanks for the info, several possibilities come to mind: 1) What is your PSU? I seem to be asking this alot, but power problems can cause a lot of these random crashes. 2) Windows is bad. I presume you run virus, spyware, malware protection, but you never know. Even if it is just registry bloat, it could be time to reformat your drive and start from scratch. It gives you an ...

Does the computer stay on normally for a while if you are not playing the game? Or does the computer shutdown/reboot at random times? It could also be an overheating problem, but like Skiplives mentions, I would run a couple of those tests before ruling any components out.

I just fresh installed Windows twice, the first was because Call of duty 2 wouldn't load because of msvcr80.dll was missing. same on the second one but i said forget it. it was the first time there was a problem with my computer. even after a frest install. memory has been doing fine since the beginning and i checked it a couple times, it is fine. The computer stays on normally on the os and all ...

msvcr80.dll is not part of windows proper, but it is part of the Net 2.0 package. Apparently, Windows Defender will sometimes remove msvcr80.dll from the windows\System32 folder. Do a search for the DLL and see if it is on your drive, but maybe not where the program expects it. If not, download it from Microsoft and make sure it stays there. Also, what are your display settings for your...

I have a Samsung 206BW going at native res of 1680*1050. Windows Defender, you say. Man oh man when can i find a stable internet security combo. threatfire and avg worked. then avg borked. now windows defender? crap. i will just fresh install. i just like to have a clean slate with no bad histories behind a os install, i guess.

I thought I fixed it by going without Windows Defender and fresh installing but I just recently played crysis and it closed. it's like the jitter repeated noise then it just shut down. no warning. nothing.

Without a DXDiag, from what I am reading you should try updating your graphics card drivers as well as making sure your directx drivers are up to date. A DXDiag would help alot for diagnosiing your issue.