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[Freezing during attempt to open fullscreen game]

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Hi all, my first post here.

Lately, I don't know what is going on, but my computer used to be able to run Battlefield 1942 and Counter-Strike 1.6 perfectly. I formatted my computer and went on a long vacation, I come back and find my computer not running the games listed above. Everytime I open the game, load into the fullscreen section, my whole computer would freeze and I would have to manually restart. I am not sure if this is a hardware or a software problem.

Here are briefly my computer specs:

Intel P4 2.4GHz Processor

ASUS P4S533 SiS 645DX Motherboard

ATi Radeon 8500 Video card (With the latest video card driver from ATi.com)

256MB DDR Ram

Thanks for your help

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Welcome to neowin, and enjoy your stay :) stick around too, and you may never leave..

to your problem, you said you reformatted your computer and all, not sure if you did this, but make sure every driver is up to date, especially your video card which may be causing this problem.

So check out that, and if that is not it, get back to us.

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yea, welcome to neowin mate :fun:

as mistical said i'd check for driver updates regarding your motherboard and graphics card. it doesn't seem to be faulty hardware since you were able to run those games before without any problems.

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No, I never installed any of those programs after I bought my computer (for 2 years) and games worked on my computer... I did everything I would have done before and my games don't work :(

My friends suggests my video card having a problem, since normal computer usage (surfing the web etc) is 2D, and gaming is 3D, so... yaa :cry:

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