This happens mostly in Borderlands, but it does happen in other games too.
In Borederlands this happens whenever there are lots and lots of particle effects in the game.
Say when I shoot 3 rockets at a time, or a car explodes. If it happens right near me, my whole PC will freeze and the screen will go blank, but it seems to go the colour of the particle effect.
I've noticed this when a scag spit some kind of blue explosion at me, my screen was a blank blue, when I shoot lots of rockets, it goes grey, and once a car exploded and it went fully white.
This also happens occasionally in TF2. When a spy once cloaked in front of me, the pinkish particle effects caused the same freeze/lock-up and my screen went fully pink.
When this happens I am unable to control,alt,delete or alt-tab.
My PC is fully locked up, the clock on my keyboard is even frozen. I have to hold the power button down and restart.
If I just press the restart button my pc will restart but the screen remains a blank colour of the particle effect.
This is very frustrating especially with Borderlands because it happens with almost every play. I can only get about 15-20 minutes in before it happens.
I have tried cleaning out the dust in my PC (there was harly any anyway) and I still get this.
My specs are:
Asus Striker II Formula
Asus 2 GTX 260's in SLI (I have the latest drivers too)
4GB Ram DDR2
Intel Q6700 Quad Core CPU
Windows 7 x64 bit
My PC should be able to run this fine, even TF2, it seems to be a particle problem, some component is unable to handle the particles.
If anyone knows anything about this, I would really really appreciate it if you helped me out. Thanks.
Post temps
OK so before my CPU was [highlight]52c[/highlight] ([highlight]130f[/highlight]), and my MB was [highlight]51c[/highlight] ([highlight]124f[/highlight]) just on the desktop.
In game the MB stayed the same, but the CPU reached [highlight]70c[/highlight] ([highlight]158f[/highlight]) before freezing.
I have opened the side of my PC case, and set the CPU fan speed to 1000 RPM instead of the default 600 RPM.
Great results:
[img]http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1931/40411465.png[/img]
[img]http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6633/73766158.png[/img]
I think this might just fix the problem. I will reply again if the problem persists. Thanks for that CombineGuru, I didn't even think to check the temperatures. :bang:
Your GPUs might be overheating to.
If the CPU still overheats you might consider getting this
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233032&cm_re=lga_775_cooler-_-35-233-032-_-Product[/url]
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