Call of Duty 4 Problem

[1VBSulaman]

Since installing COD4 a few weeks ago and updating to 1.4 I have been having a random shutdown problem.

I have the following setup on my computer:

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz Socket AM2
• Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
• Dual Foxconn FV-N88SMBD2-ODOC GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported HDCP Video Card
• Integrated sound until my sound card arrives
• Antec True-Power 650W Power Supply
• 4x BUFFALO Firestix 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
• Coolmax Cosmos Full Tower case with 4 120mm fans

I'm currently running Windows XPsp2 until my new copy of Vista Ultimate arrives. I do not have any additional cooling on the machine at this time though I will be buying a Zalman fan cooler for the processor.

The problem is this....

When I'm playing any other game, from WoW to Battlefield 2 to America's Army I have no problems. When I'm doing anything "normal" on my computer, I have no problems. When I'm playing CoD4 (with or without patches) the computer will randomly shut down in both single player and multi-player modes.

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Do you have the 'Dual Core Optimizer' fix installed? It fixes issues specifically related to gaming on X2 CPUs. Download it from here if you don't have it yet.

 

[1VBSulaman]

I'll try that and let you know what happens. Thanks for the pointer.

 

[1VBSulaman]

Looks like Vista (received last night) solved the problem. Now I just need to fix my audio situation (caused by Vista) and I'm good to go.