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Old December 21, 2010, 11:17 AM
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Ok so my brothers computer crashes while he games. It just says that the program has stopped working. It has windows 7 ultimate, Asus p7h55-m, skill ripjaws 4th 1333 mh, core i5 760 and an xfx 6850. Thoughts?
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Old December 21, 2010, 11:24 AM
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Passes all stability testing? Memtest, Prime95, OCCT, Furmark?

BSOD, or program stops working? Which games? I've had issues with Fallout NV on my perfectly stable system.
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Old December 21, 2010, 11:24 AM
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make sure it's not a cracked game. update all drivers for 6850 or a good old game reinstall. would be the first place to start. also make sure the card is not overheating but it doesn't sound like it. Just to be sure the system doesn't crash just the game?
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Old December 21, 2010, 11:51 AM
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Nah I don't think his system crashed.. I think he is getting that dialogue box at the bottom-right corner when your graphic display fails (crash to desktop)... from what I am interperting from experience.

Did you do a clean install of your display drivers?
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hows temps and voltages?
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Old December 21, 2010, 01:37 PM
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Voltages for CPU are stock. Ram is set to 1.6v. I have done all the tests and nothing.. They're all fine. CPU is 50 degrees under load, so that's fine. I don't know about gpu temps. The games he's playing are empire total war and Napoleon total war. They're through steam. I just installed windows 7, so catalyst 10.12 is the only driver ever installed on it.
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I'm pretty sure Windows 7 keeps logs of crashed applications in event viewer, unlike previous versions of Windows, it actually gets some pretty useful information.

Hit windows key+r and type in eventvwr, look under the logs that fall under the time frame.
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