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Originally Posted by MaliceX
That may be what my other friend said as well, except in this case, the sound goes from:
"Doo-daa-dee-dum-dee-la-ma-mee"
then freezes, it just goes
"me-me-me-me-me-me-me" like a broken record.
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Right, that means the computer's locked up solid. You get the broken record effect because the sound card uses a circular buffer (when it gets to the end, it goes back to the beginning), and whatever program was sending stuff to the sound card stopped working.
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My video card couldn't be possibly overheating, it never done this to me before, and even froze on simple programs. Another thing is, Quake 3 Arena should've been affected but surprisingly isn't.
Fullscreen on emulator programs doesn't seem to be a problem.. (zsnes sometimes is.)
Also, it plays SOME older 3D games perfectly, while heavy-loading 3D games, and games like CHICKEN INVADERS freeze up on loading.
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Ah. Quake 3 uses OpenGL, but most stuff (including JJ2) uses DirectX. Try graphics drivers, and try installing the latest version of DirectX
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Originally Posted by Hazel-rah
I always thought it was a cooling issue... my CPU fan stops turning for a few seconds once a day without any reason... I can't explain it.. I cleaned the (-)(-)(-)(-) thing.
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I've seen that happen on a friend's pc, and it was a bit worrying seeing the temperature climb. I think modern motherboards do some fancy temperature-sensing stuff and control the cpu fan speed based on temperature. You may want to look and see if there is an option in the bios to disable the speed control for the fan.
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