Cheat Engine

Nirojan · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:09 am Post subject: my game is being a jerk

I don't know if this belongs in here or in GD, but I'll post it here because fuck the police

anyways, recently I've been trying to play Burnout Paradise again. It was on my C drive, but that's almost empty, so i moved the files to my D drive. After the move, the game wasn't working well. It would sometimes get a black screen, but the audio would continue. Or it would just crash. So, i deleted my copy on the D drive and reinstalled, also on the D drive. After this, I didn't experience the problems from before. However, after I play for about 5 minutes the game will freeze. Once again, the audio will still work fine, but the video just stops and I can't do anything. If I end the process, the monitor that I would be playing on would stop getting a signal somehow. So then I installed the latest drivers for my graphics card, and that kind of helped. But the problem still persists. Although it doesn't happen within 5 minutes now. It usually takes 10 or so minutes. I've also noticed it happens a lot more when I start boosting the car.
This isn't happening in any other games. Also, this used to happen when the game was still on my C drive, but it usually took 2 hours for it to finally freeze like that.
I'm running Windows XP, SP3. 3.5GB of ram... And my graphics card is a "Radeon 4300/4500 Series".

tl;dr: Burnout Paradise is freezing after I play for like 5 mins. isn't happening on other games.

Gniarf · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:39 am Post subject:

It might be your graphic card overheating (we're in summer after all).

Or it might be your power supply unit that's getting old. Compare your PSU rated power with this power consumption estimator. How much margin do you have?

Nirojan · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:59 pm Post subject:

I honestly don't know most of the stuff that was on the site.
derp

SF · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:10 pm Post subject:

Grab an app to see the temps on the gpu. I often use gpu-z

also, what is the gpu you're using? and whats the wattage on your psu?

Nirojan · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:23 pm Post subject:

SF · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject:

59C idle seems quite high. my 4850 is idling at 44C with the fan barely running. Get some canned air and try cleaning the fan on it? Does it even have a fan? Found a source that it pulls 155W under load, so if the PSU is dying and not pushing max watts and everything else is using high-load power, it could be that.

Burnout paradise is relatively new, and while boosting the graphics are sped up by quite a bit, maybe it just can't handle it (anymore?) Do you have any errors/criticals in the event viewer?

goat69 · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject:

SF you ain't grizz baby.

Clear some stuff out the C Drive, then install it.

Gniarf · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:41 pm Post subject:

Hero · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:55 pm Post subject:

There is nothing wrong with your pc. This game dislikes movement. When I moved it to my second HDD so I could reformat my 1tb it crapped out too. You will have to reinstall it. If you have the CD key you can enter it into origin, or hopefully you have the steam version like me.

Nirojan · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:58 am Post subject: