OK, here\'s the situation, whenever i play any of the good and new games (WarCraft 3, HalfLife, Diablo 2, even PlaneShift at the logon screen) my computer locks-up with no error/warning/etc messages and after a short while unfreezes if i\'m lucky... usually it just stays locked up.
This is really getting me PO\'d because i cant play the games i like usually. Its really weird, too. Whenever i play online i have no problem; it rarely, if not at all, locks up.
The computer is:
500mhz celeron
256MB ram
GeForce 2 MX
Some sort of Sound-Blaster sound card, rather good i belive
Windows XP (ugh, \"better OS\" my arse, i cant play Settlers 2 Gold Edition! ;( )
and is made by HP (i think thats the problem, right there, but im not sure
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i dont know much else about the damn thing, except that when i play WarCraft 3 it locks up big-time lots of times, but when i play a game like StarCraft it NEVER locks up. I mean, NEVER EVER locked up on StarCraft, EVER! I play Half Life single player and it will eventually lock up somewhere at random times, usually staying locked-up. Same with Diablo 2, it will eventually lock up at random times and usually stay locked up.
However, the only thing that ceases to make them lock up is when i go online with a game, for example i play the Half Life mod called Natural Selection and join a internet game, and it doesn\'t freeze; however when i go play a LAN game with myself against bots in the same mod it locks up then. Same with Diablo 2, it will lock-up in single player and LAN, but will not lock up in Multiplayer on battle.net...
and then you have the curve ball WarCraft 3. It seems like it doesn\'t care if its online or not it\'ll still lock up at one random time and stay locked up [and if im lucky un-lock]. However, its only when im at the gameplay [and title screen/menu] portion will it lock up. I can sit and wait for the game to start and it will be \"jumpy\" locking and un-locking for mere seconds, and as soon as the action starts... BLAM! locked up again.
Oddly enough when it locks up i can go over to my other computer (thats a Packard Bell, 120mhz, <128mb ram, old no-name brand video card i think) that has a network line (with a HUB sharing a DSL internet connection) setup between the two computers (the HP and the Packard Bell) and when i open up the network shorcut on the Packard Bell when the HP is locked up the HP unlocks! Unfortunetly the Packard Bell is in another room, causing me to run back and forth like a ****ing monkey trying to unlock WC3 just to close the damn thing out. X(
[And its not just games, either, the computer will freeze up on things like audio and/or video of any type. thank goodness IE isn\'t effected by this.]
Help me. ;(
