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screen freezes in the middle of the game

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vavinashraju
vavinashraju Original post #1
Nov 24, 2007 at 10:04 AM
i have a nvidia 6600 graphics card and i updated my system with the latest nvidia drivers and then i installed age of empires ....i have played this game on my system perfectly before..........but now it is suddenly hanging in the middle of the game so i updated the game to its latest by patching..... still the problem was there
now i tried the game company of heroes.....in this also the screen freezes in the mddle of game........and i have even played this on my pc before ......and nothing is working not even the ctrl alt del ...i hv to restart my system....please help me
i have posted this in Q&A but vaibhav has asked me to post it here so i made another post here
neerajkumar_4
Nov 24, 2007 at 10:39 AM
1.may b ur GPU has some issues. try other games and check.
2.did u overclock it?
vavinashraju
Nov 24, 2007 at 7:18 PM
no i have not overclocked my graphics card.....
vish786
vish786 #4
Nov 24, 2007 at 7:24 PM
the question itself has answer, remove latest drivers & install previous ones.
vavinashraju
Nov 24, 2007 at 7:33 PM
ok i will try that and reply.....but some newer games were asking me to update my nvidia drivers so i updated them
bkpeerless
Nov 24, 2007 at 8:07 PM
i think u installed wrong updated driver
vavinashraju
Nov 24, 2007 at 8:30 PM
i installed these drivers which are the latest i think ....NVIDIA ForceWare Release XP 32bit 169.09 Beta