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Freezing when closing notes - JayBiggS - 05-19-2011
I'm having a strange problem. I get a hard freeze when I close/exit some notes(letters, whatever). It appears to be random, but definitely tied to closing the note dialogs. The screen freezes, but I can still hear the ambient sound effects. I can sometimes see the windows "hourglass" loading cursor and am able to move my mouse around, but I cannot Alt-tab or Ctrl+Alt+Del. I am forced to reboot. Some notes I can exit fine.
I saw the troubleshooting thread that mentions *something* similar to this, with a possible fix, but frankly I do not want to bother playing the game with those post processing settings turned off.
I bought the game off Steam.
I will say this, the fear of my PC freezing adds an extra layer of horror to the game
PC Specs:
XPS 730X Intel® Core™ i7-920 (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache)
Memory: 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 at 1066MHZ (3x2GB DIMM)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce GTX 285 1024MB
Hard Drive: 1TB - SATA-II, 3GB/S, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache
Operating System: Windows Vista® Home Premium Service Pack 2 64-bit
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 2233
nVidia 3dVision Glasses
Video Driver: 260.99
RE: Freezing when closing notes - Tanshaydar - 05-19-2011
Is your graphic card drivers up to date?
RE: Freezing when closing notes - skypeskype - 05-19-2011
This happens to me too. But it doesnt freeze. The FPS just drops to like 20 for 4 seconds. I have an NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti. The drivers are fully updated. Strange, indeed.
RE: Freezing when closing notes - plutomaniac - 05-19-2011
Install the latest drivers for your gpu, these:
Windows Vista/7 x64:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-275.27-beta-driver.html
RE: Freezing when closing notes - JayBiggS - 05-19-2011
(05-19-2011, 08:20 PM)plutomaniac Wrote: Install the latest drivers for your gpu, these:
Windows Vista/7 x64:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-275.27-beta-driver.html
Will do. I will report back if it works/doesnt work. Thanks everyone.
RE: Freezing when closing notes - JayBiggS - 05-19-2011
Ok, updated my video driver, and all is working. Thanks again guys.
RE: Freezing when closing notes - plutomaniac - 05-20-2011
that always work. Have fun...