MenaceInc
Staff Member
At last guys, it was the RAM.
I downloaded Prime95. Made the Blend test. Waited 10 mins, and it didn't finish. I said oh well, and closed it. I tried the other tests. Benchmark finished correctly with no errors. I then tried an other program for CPU stability, no errors.
After that, I downloaded a stability and benchmark test for the GPU. Talking to my brother, I realized that we didn't actually change the GPU. When the program ran, computer recovered from freeze, and I ran the test. It said test failed and told me to restart computer. Upon restart, executed the program, and the test went on. After 30 mins, it didn't finish. I exited it noticing that there might be a chance for the GPU to not be the prime foul here.
After a while, I called up my friend to bring his computer. It has a Geforce 9400 GT with an upgraded CPU and 4 GB RAM. Then, I replaced his Graphics card with mine. Guess what? It was still freezing in games! That phased out the GPU, since his card works perfectly on his comp. Second, it was the RAM turn. Upon replacing them, no freeze! Launched the game several times, and it still didn't freeze.
That made me happy to know the truth since 2008. xD
Thanks you guys for helping me out here. Just 2 more questions. What would you suggest to upgrade? Is 4Gb good? 32-bit OS can use as a maximum 3.2 Gbyte of RAM. So would I benefit from expanding it?
Second, should I upgrade my GPU or the CPU for better gaming experience?
My CPU is fairly similiar to yours in clockspeed but Core2 Duo CPU's do better clock for clock than Athlon's so your CPU should do perfectly fine since mine hasn't given me any problems. I would recommend you upgrade the Graphics card since I'm fairly sure that it would be the bottleneck in your system. As for recommendations, I'm not too sure what to suggest considering I've no idea of budget or what current market prices are. Saying that, the 58** series by ATI seem to have impressed everyone lately so that would be a good start I guess.
As for the RAM thing, 4gb is perfectly fine for any gamer out there (unless you want to run UT3, Bioshock, GTA4, Crysis and Crysis Warhead all at the same time) but I would suggest you get a 64bit version of Windows. There's no real cons to 64bit anymore unlike back in the XP days and you can get full use out of your RAM (if you somehow run enough applications to fill it up ).