System crash when playing 3D games

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Originally Posted by Thorns

I had a similar problem with a Creative sound card under WindowsXp
i tried the latest drivers with no luck then i uninstalled and reinstalled the sound card useing the Windows provided driver and the problem went away Good Luck!

Do not use the updated driver for Creative sound on windows update.

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What is this Windows provided driver? The one that comes with the Creative CD or..?

start - run - msconfig - START UP tab - uncheck nwiz.exe and rundll32.exe. Apply - OK, yes to reboot. Try it now.

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Originally Posted by Dahmiren

When I play 3d games action games, like Half-life mods and Call of Duty my computer crashes and I hear high pitched noise from my speakers. This happens usually after a few minutes of playing. I have done a little research, but haven't found an answer yet, but in Creative's forums people claims it to be a driver problem. I have tried creative patches, VIA 4in1 and PCI latency patches but none of them worked. Also any driver(VGA) updates and bios updates didn't have any effects on. I'm not sure about this, but when I enabled CMSS 3D in Creative Media Source, my problems started or at least at that time they started to come and I didn't have any kinds of problem for two months. And when I disable it, it turns on automatically when I start to play.

Some information about my computer:
Mobo: Asus A7V8X-X VIA KT400/333 Chipset
Processor: Amd Athlon XP 2200+ 1,8 GHz, 3D Now
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Graphic Driver: Asus V9560 GeForce FX 5600
Hard Drive: Maxtor Diamond 80 GB
DirectX version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Home Edition (Service Pack 1)
Memory: 512 MB DDR 333MHz

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I had a friend who had the same problem. It was a combo of a melted card and bad powersupply.

If you got an extra comp, stick the graphics into it and try to play a game. Or, ask a friend. Could isolate the problem.

also get the updates for the games