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First a little bit about my system: Intel P4 3.2 Ghz ATI x800 All in Wonder (AIW) Soundblaster Audigy 2 - Vista beta drivers 5.12.10.1162 dated (8/29/05)
Problem: In any of the games I've tried running in Vista my computer freezes after playing the game for a few minutes (maybe 5-10 min). I say freezes because I don't get a blue screen, the machine doesn't restart, and I can't alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del back to windows. The sound of whatever I'm playing continues for a while then begins looping, but other than that the computer is unresponsive.
I've read that other people have been able to play at least two of these games (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and The Sims 2) in Vista without any problems so I'm baffled why they aren't working. I have installed the games in Vista thinking that my duel booting with XP was messing it up but they still do not work past a certain point. Any ideas would be appreciated; thanks.

Is your machine OC'd?
"Lt. Bob" <Lt. Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

First a little bit about my system: Intel P4 3.2 Ghz ATI x800 All in Wonder (AIW) Soundblaster Audigy 2 - Vista beta drivers 5.12.10.1162 dated (8/29/05)
Problem: In any of the games I've tried running in Vista my computer freezes after playing the game for a few minutes (maybe 5-10 min). I say freezes because I don't get a blue screen, the machine doesn't restart, and I can't alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del back to windows. The sound of whatever I'm playing continues for a while then begins looping, but other than that the computer is unresponsive.
I've read that other people have been able to play at least two of these games (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and The Sims 2) in Vista without any problems so I'm baffled why they aren't working. I have installed the games in Vista thinking that my duel booting with XP was messing it up but they still do not work past a certain point. Any ideas would be appreciated; thanks.

Nope, nothing on my machine is OC'd.
"Zapper" wrote:

Is your machine OC'd?
"Lt. Bob" <Lt. Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message First a little bit about my system: Intel P4 3.2 Ghz ATI x800 All in Wonder (AIW) Soundblaster Audigy 2 - Vista beta drivers 5.12.10.1162 dated (8/29/05)
Problem: In any of the games I've tried running in Vista my computer freezes after playing the game for a few minutes (maybe 5-10 min). I say freezes because I don't get a blue screen, the machine doesn't restart, and I can't alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del back to windows. The sound of whatever I'm playing continues for a while then begins looping, but other than that the computer is unresponsive.
I've read that other people have been able to play at least two of these games (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and The Sims 2) in Vista without any problems so I'm baffled why they aren't working. I have installed the games in Vista thinking that my duel booting with XP was messing it up but they still do not work past a certain point. Any ideas would be appreciated; thanks.