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Problems starting games

jerome2710

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Hello guys!

I hope this is the good place to post my topic.....

I have some problems starting up my games... The computer is just new, so I'm not very happy that it doesn't work already... The games I've tried:
COD4 sp:
Works well!
COD4 mp:
Crashes after the windowed startup screen...
Crysis 1:
Crashes after loading the game. When I press a key when it asks me to, it crashes...
Crysis 2:
Crashes in the installation... It just freezes...
Far Cry 2:
Crashes after the windowed game startup screen. The editor gives me an error that it must be closed because it's not reponding after I open it. The benchmarktool works though.
3DMark Vantage:
Works, but with a lot of artifact. Some kind of DLL missing, after I installed a patch it was working well. Only my screen resolution was too small, but that has nothing to do with this.
3DMark06:
Works extremely well! (25678 Marks!)

What could it be?
I started to try a few things my own. Formatted my HDD, shut the computer off for half a day, resetted the BIOS, installed Windows7 x64.
No changes, same errors...

The computer is now off for a week already because of school. Wednesday next week I'll be putting it in his case, when the problem is not solved for the week after, I'll bring it to my local computer shop for research...

Specs:
Intel Core i7 920 with TRUE Real Copper
Asus P6T (non-deluxe)
Corsair 3GB 1600-CL9
XFX HD4870x2 (second is in order)
Fortron Everest 1010W
Samsung HD103UJ
Old NEC IDE DVD-Drive

Thanks a lot for helping me!

PS: I have a feeling that it's my hard drive, but I don't know why... It's brandly new...

Greetings,
Jerome
 

jerome2710

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Anybody? Does my overclock corrupt Windows each time mayby? Running at stock settings again in the same OS doesn't matter. I'll be trying to reinstall W7 this week and wait with overclocking. Let's see if it runs then.

C'mon people!
 

GeekTech

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This hard to say what problems? can be,

- Broken Hardwares
- Wrong Drivers
- You using original Windows Operation?

I need more information, what you have done? have try other drivers?