Games Crash, Screen Flickers, Yellow Triangle of Doom
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I've been having this problem lately, and it's getting annoying now. After some time, say 20-30 minutes of any gameplay, my game freezes and the screen turns black. I have to get the task manager out to end the process of the game. After this, this mysterious yellow triangle with an exclamation mark appears. When I hover my mouse over it, nothing shows up. Clicking on it does nothing either, and when looking at the icon in the taskbar properties it is given "no title". When this triangle is present, my computer freezes for a second, screen flicks to black, and then on again for a couple of seconds whenever I move windows, or minimize or maximize windows. The only way to fix, and temporarily, is to restart my computer. Anyway to prevent this from happening? Permanently?
The triangle of doom:
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System info:
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit with Service Pack 1 build 6001
Motherboard: Nforce 680i LT with latest drivers and BIOS version
Ram: 4GB Corsair XMS2 (reads 2.5gb due to the 2 graphics cards being 768mb and Vista 32bit.)
Video Card: 2x 8800GTX 768mb with latest drivers
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
That "yellow triangle of DOOM" might be malware sappin your Ghz. Open task manager and look under user processes and end them all except ones that are obvious, like virus scanners. Post a screen shot of the user processes before you end any of them, I may be able to identify them for you.
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"Generic..." being my username.
I just noticed I have a lot of processes running...
Wow, 64 processes... Ok, try disabling everything except System, nVidia and anti virus/antispyware processes, I dont see anything that looks out of place or alien. Off note, whats your screen resolution, 1900 or 2100 something?
EDIT: Try super Anti-spyware rather then Ad-Aware, its faster and has updates to its database almost daily.
EDIT 2: Errm, not ad-aware, I ment spybot S&D. ^_^;
Winkey+R
Msconfig -> Services
Check, "Hide all Microsoft Services"
Hit the, "Disable all," button
Reboot
Try playing a game.
[QUOTE=Scientwist;16490436]Wow, 64 processes... Ok, try disabling everything except System, nVidia and anti virus/antispyware processes, I dont see anything that looks out of place or alien. Off note, whats your screen resolution, 1900 or 2100 something?
EDIT: Try super Anti-spyware rather then Ad-Aware, its faster and has updates to its database almost daily.
EDIT 2: Errm, not ad-aware, I ment spybot S&D. ^_^;[/QUOTE]
1680x1050. I scan weekly, both for viruses and spyware.
[QUOTE=Shadow187(FP);16490898]Winkey+R
Msconfig -> Services
Check, "Hide all Microsoft Services"
Hit the, "Disable all," button
Reboot
Try playing a game.[/QUOTE]
I might have told you the wrong information. This freezing is random. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, so it'll be a bit harder to replicate. I'll try this though, thanks!
Update: Just happened again. It's still here. :frown:
I remember reading something a long time ago about some Vista desktop recovery thing... Something along the lines of that. It might be related to that.
Increase your Virtual Memory. That is what the triangle meant in XP, I haven't encountered that problem in Vista yet, but thats possibly because I have more ram than I need.
[QUOTE=mgear;16528780]Increase your Virtual Memory. That is what the triangle meant in XP, I haven't encountered that problem in Vista yet, but thats possibly because I have more ram than I need.[/QUOTE]
I have 4gb of RAM, though it reads 2.5gb because of the 32bit Vista and my 2 graphics cards, both with 768mb of VRAM. Is 2.5gb enough? What about the VRAM?
[QUOTE=oogaboogaman;16529332]I have 4gb of RAM, though it reads 2.5gb because of the 32bit Vista and my 2 graphics cards, both with 768mb of VRAM. Is 2.5gb enough? What about the VRAM?[/QUOTE]
It's enough for most stuff. But I just mentioned the virtual memory because of the yellow triangle.
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"Generic..." being my username.
I just noticed I have a lot of processes running...[/QUOTE]
Over 10 svhost.exe's running, holy fffffffffffff
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