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Name: Dave2718
Date: December 14, 2003 at 13:31:11 Pacific
Subject: Game freezes when online
OS: win2k pro
CPU/Ram: xp1800 / 768mb pc2100
Comment:

I have been play Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne for that past 5 months. Everything was working fine untill about two weeks ago. When I am playing games online the computer will freeze up and I have to restart my computer. System Specs:
XP1800 @ 1.53 GHz
768 mb pc2100
160 gig WD HDD
350 watt PSU
MSI TI-4200 128 mb

Here is what I have tryed so far...
•swapped the memory with some that I knew worked
•checked for virus' at housecall.trendmicro.com (found none)
•reinstalled Warcraft
•put in a second hard drive and loaded xp on the new drive.
•went to MSI website and they said to check the IRQs. Both the graphics card and the onboard Network adapter were on IRQ 11. I thought that might be the problem so I checked an XP machine that worked. That computer also shared the IRQ...

It only crashes when playing games online. I don't know where to go from here... Any suggestions?

Thanks
Dave


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Response Number 1
Name: andrew34kay
Date: January 21, 2004 at 16:56:51 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Looks like u should think of buying a new graphics card. Built in ones are not really meant for extreme gaming. Check the system requirements for teh game and that should give you an idea on what to expand on ram, etc. As for crashing online, it could depend on your bandwidth, 56k cable, DSL, etc. But try to get a new graphics card (I reccommend ATI Radeons and GeForces)install it and go the bios menu at system startup and disable the builtin graphics card, that should free upo the IRQ and might solve the problem.

hope it works.
Andrew


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