I've been getting some crashes in Far Cry that make it impossible to beat this one level, so I think it may be a cooling problem. I have:
6800 Ultra with some unofficial drivers (soon to be changed to nvidia ones)
Asus socket 939 motherboard
3500+ CPU with a thermaltake HSF
Lian-Li v1000 case (2 built in fans; NO EXTRA FANS CAN BE ADDED)
Audigy 2 soundcard
ALL LATEST DRIVERS
Cool+quiet on
COMPUTER WAS PREBUILT ONLINE FROM WEBSITE
On 1600x1200, at this one area it would always just have all of these weird colors of screen, and I'd have to force shut it down. In CoD with the same resoltion, the same weird-color-lines things happened after some explosion. When I turned Far Cry down to 1024x768, it didn't crash at this one area, but later on, it froze periodically until it would just freeze for good and I'd have to force shutdown. I can't replace any computer parts or anything really. I've heard from someone else that he plays Far Cry with an AMD processor at like 80 degrees C and he's fine. So is this a cooling problem or not? Should I maybe get the new official NVidia drivers, or is it a problem with my motherboard?
Don't make me do anything that may mess up my computer like opening the case up and replacing parts. I can't do that. If I really have to, I can maybe replace a fan.
6800 Ultra with some unofficial drivers (soon to be changed to nvidia ones)
Asus socket 939 motherboard
3500+ CPU with a thermaltake HSF
Lian-Li v1000 case (2 built in fans; NO EXTRA FANS CAN BE ADDED)
Audigy 2 soundcard
ALL LATEST DRIVERS
Cool+quiet on
COMPUTER WAS PREBUILT ONLINE FROM WEBSITE
On 1600x1200, at this one area it would always just have all of these weird colors of screen, and I'd have to force shut it down. In CoD with the same resoltion, the same weird-color-lines things happened after some explosion. When I turned Far Cry down to 1024x768, it didn't crash at this one area, but later on, it froze periodically until it would just freeze for good and I'd have to force shutdown. I can't replace any computer parts or anything really. I've heard from someone else that he plays Far Cry with an AMD processor at like 80 degrees C and he's fine. So is this a cooling problem or not? Should I maybe get the new official NVidia drivers, or is it a problem with my motherboard?
Don't make me do anything that may mess up my computer like opening the case up and replacing parts. I can't do that. If I really have to, I can maybe replace a fan.