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7 ***** for games

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by crunchie, 2010/01/24.

  1. 2010/01/24
    crunchie

    crunchie Inactive Thread Starter

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    Installed 7 64bit, fully updated. Installed Crysis, Crysis warhead, Call of Duty4 and 2, GRAW 1 & 2 and they all crash.
    Latest ATI drivers, up-to-date motherboard drivers etc.
    Had GRAW and Crysis running with zero problems on the same pc with Vista 64bit installed. Only thing that has changed in the hardware is I now have a WD 1Tb Caviar Black installed.
    Crysis will run in 32bit, but crashes when I exit the game.
    All games have the latest patches installed.
    Roll on SP1 :(.

    Anyone have any ideas?
     
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  2. 2010/01/25
    Arie

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    I would suspect your overclocking. But without seeing the actual BSOD's there's not a lot else I could say.

    You can say "but it works fine on XXX ", I will just say that another OS will use the memory in a different way, so that's my bet.
     
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  4. 2010/01/25
    crunchie

    crunchie Inactive Thread Starter

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    Before I installed 7, I returned everything to stock settings in the bios, including enabling C&Q just to be on the safe side.
    Games just do not like running on it.
    When I had Vista I could have my processor clocked to 3800MHz as well as overclocking the RAM and I had no problem running the games.
    Am thinking about dual booting 7 with XP to see how I go. All the games that crash are pre 7 release, so they should work fine with XP.
    Just to clarify. The games do not crash the computer, they crash to desktop.
    Once out of the game I check the temps and the processor is running at 48C and the 4870 about 50C. Ambients of around 30C.
     
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  5. 2010/01/25
    Arie

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    IC. Well I have no experience running games on Windows 7. I suggest you try to check some gaming sites to see if other people are reporting problems running 7 with those games.
     
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  6. 2010/01/25
    bluzkat

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    Also... check the manufacturer's website for 'patches' (call me "capt. obvious "). :D
     
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