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Weird crash when playing games

Discussion in 'Windows BSOD, Freezing, Restarting Help' started by Scorch1994, Dec 3, 2012.

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  1. Scorch1994 Newcomer, in training

    Hello, sometimes when I'm playing games, the pc freezes and the screen turns into a bunch of squares with 2 random colors, or the screen will start flashing random colors.
    http://I.imgur.com/W0tfT.jpg
    http://I.imgur.com/UVSZb.jpg

    Videos of screen flashing
    Dishonored
    Skyrim

    In Dishonored, the crash only happens when I go to where the crosshair is on this image.
    I'm playing with 1900x1200 resolution, and I tried some different resolutions and at the lowest resoultion possible (800x600) the game doesn't crash.
    2012-12-02_00002.jpg

    My laptops specs:
    gtx 260m
    Intel Core2 Duo P9700 2.80GHz
    4 GB RAM
    Scorch1994, Dec 3, 2012
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  2. Tmagic650 TS Ambassador Posts: 18,753   +62

    Are you expecting more from this laptop than it can do?
    Tmagic650, Dec 4, 2012
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  3. Scorch1994 Newcomer, in training

    I've played games that are more demanding with no problems before, but the screen flashing is something that's started happening only recently.
    Scorch1994, Dec 4, 2012
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  4. Tmagic650 TS Ambassador Posts: 18,753   +62

    Is the laptop over-heating?
    Tmagic650, Dec 4, 2012
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  5. Tmagic650 TS Ambassador Posts: 18,753   +62

    Post any minidumps by going to C:\windows\minidump. Minidump files have a .dmp extension. Select all the .dmp files. Right-click sending the files to a compressed(zipped)folder. Upload that folder as a file here
    Tmagic650, Dec 4, 2012
    #5

  6. Scorch1994 Newcomer, in training

    Here's the minidumps. When playing games the temperature is usually around 70-75°C

    Attached Files:

    Scorch1994, Dec 4, 2012
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  7. Tmagic650 TS Ambassador Posts: 18,753   +62

    Are you over-clocking. The minidumps point to general Windows instability with an Nvidia driver issue. Is Windows fully updated, running Windows Update manually including all optional updates
    Tmagic650, Dec 4, 2012
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  8. Scorch1994 Newcomer, in training

    I haven't overclocked. I have the latest driver for my graphics card and I'm going to install all the optional updates in Windows Update right now.
    Scorch1994, Dec 4, 2012
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  9. Tmagic650 TS Ambassador Posts: 18,753   +62

    Okay, let us know how it goes...
    Tmagic650, Dec 4, 2012
    #9

  10. Scorch1994 Newcomer, in training

    Nothing changed.
    Scorch1994, Dec 9, 2012
    #10

  11. Tmagic650 TS Ambassador Posts: 18,753   +62

    Replace the video card
    Tmagic650, Dec 9, 2012
    #11

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