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#1 19 MAY 2006 at 10:38am
Gusington General Posts : 18089 Joined: 16 AUG 2004 Location: US, USMA Status : Offline	Hi all...I've been playing FEAR for about a week and love it. However, my rig is tad on the elderly side and occasionally locks up while running the game. I have downloaded all of the latest NVidia drivers and the game itself automatically adjusts its graphical detail to the specfic machine its running on, but i still get the occasional lockup that drains joy out of what is otherwise a great game. Any suggestions? I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon. - Rayfer
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#2 19 MAY 2006 at 10:44am
LongBlade General Posts : 20586 Joined: 2 MAY 2003 Status : Offline	OK, it may not be a driver issue. The next suspect is hardware. Your PC is a bit old. How does it compare to the minimum specs? I am the Ancien Regime
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#3 19 MAY 2006 at 11:17am
Gusington General Posts : 18089 Joined: 16 AUG 2004 Location: US, USMA Status : Offline	Well, the minimum specs are listed as a P4 1.7 GHz...my processor is P4 2.5 GHz. My memory is 1GB and my vid card is a NVidia 6800GT,both well beyond the minimum specs...[& I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon. - Rayfer
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#4 19 MAY 2006 at 11:56am
LongBlade General Posts : 20586 Joined: 2 MAY 2003 Status : Offline	OK, next step. Have you spent any time on the support forums for the game? They may have something there. Also, have you patched the game to the latest version? I'd patch it first if you haven't, then I'd spend some time reading the support forums for advice. I am the Ancien Regime
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#5 19 MAY 2006 at 12:19pm
Gusington General Posts : 18089 Joined: 16 AUG 2004 Location: US, USMA Status : Offline	Yep, the game is patched up to the latest version (1.4). It does so automatically when booted up. Haven't visited their forums yet though... I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon. - Rayfer
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#6 19 MAY 2006 at 3:15pm
Armed and Homeless Centurion Posts : 407 Joined: 15 OCT 2004 Location: 0 Status : Offline	Have you had overheating issues in the past? Can you stress your CPU and check the temperature to see if that may be the issue? Do you get a similar lockup with other games? Your specs sound sufficient, I don't think its a resource shortage. Also, the 6800 GT is a rather power hungry card, if you experience similar lock ups with stressing your computer it could be a crappy powers supply unit. [i]The problem with political jokes is they get elected.[/i]
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#7 19 MAY 2006 at 3:36pm
Gusington General Posts : 18089 Joined: 16 AUG 2004 Location: US, USMA Status : Offline	Hmmm...the only game that has similarly locked up was AoE III and once I lowered the settings a bit and got the latest drivers the lockups stopped. I have the latest drivers now, but I assumed the video settings chosen by the game utility would be alright. Maybe I should manually turn them down. I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon. - Rayfer
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#8 19 MAY 2006 at 5:09pm
Armed and Homeless Centurion Posts : 407 Joined: 15 OCT 2004 Location: 0 Status : Offline	Yeah start with that. What motherboard do you have? I'm assuming this is a custom built system yes? [i]The problem with political jokes is they get elected.[/i]
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#9 19 MAY 2006 at 9:31pm
Gusington General Posts : 18089 Joined: 16 AUG 2004 Location: US, USMA Status : Offline	No sir...its a Dell 8200. It runs great 99% of the time. I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon. - Rayfer
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