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So im playing on my girlfriends computer which is a new 64 bit windows ultimate with I3 processor @ 2.13 gh.z video card is Radeon HD 4500. 3 GB ram

It freezes up completely when im playing. no warnings or error messages. All settings can be put to high, but even at all low settings it still freezes.

I know what is NOT the problem.
It's not a memory issue. I use a program to tell me amount of ram i am running while gaming and havnt gone beyond 2.2 gb usage on high settings.
It's not an overheating issue. I use a cooler and i play in a cold environment.

I play on a way crappier computer than this one when im at home and it dsnt freeze up like this.

please help, thank you.

Ultimate 32bit or 64 bit?

Radeon HD 4500 mobility?

That's an integrated GPU, your 3GB of total RAM is giving some amount to the GPU.
You can change the amount of VRAM being reserved for the GPU to maybe 512 instead of 728.

Catalyst Control Center -Information Center - Graphics Hardware

you want to disable hypermemory .

But I forgot how.

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Go into your windows logs and see what the error message is and copy paste it here if you want...

Open Event Viewer by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Event Viewer.‌ If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

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LITOralis.nMd wrote:Ultimate 32bit or 64 bit?

Radeon HD 4500 mobility?

That's an integrated GPU, your 3GB of total RAM is giving some amount to the GPU.
You can change the amount of VRAM being reserved for the GPU to maybe 512 instead of 728.

Catalyst Control Center -Information Center - Graphics Hardware

you want to disable hypermemory .

But I forgot how.

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Go into your windows logs and see what the error message is and copy paste it here if you want...

Open Event Viewer by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Event Viewer.‌ If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

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yes 64 bit ultimate and yes integrated video card(its a laptop).

Could you tell me in steps what i have to do? would help a lot.

I'm not sure how to disable hypermemory in Vista.. I used to use a 3rd party program called ATI Tray Tools, ATI Tray Tools Generic Discussion - Guru3D.com Forums

download:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733

Tip 1.Regedit

You coul try this with regedit not sure it works though… HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATITechnologies\CDS\0000\0\Memory There will be an “hypermemory” string modify it to No (0x00000000) instead of Yes (0x00000001)

Tip 2.ATI Tray Tools

Download ATI Tray Tools and install it if you haven’t already - then go Tools & Options, General Options, Advanced, and uncheck “Enable ATT Shared Memory”. If that doesn't help make sure to reboot and add the check back.

Tip 3.Vista and newer

Something like advanced display options in Vista can configure hypermemory from screen properties i think.


ATI Tray Tools

I cant find how to disable/limit the hypermemory in CCC. and the trick in ATI tray tools dsnt work.

I'm not comfertable trying stuff in the cmd cuz its not my pc

while seeding seeding the server with around 10 people it worked fine on asad... then we switched to kokan and more people started joining and it froze withing the first 20 minutes.

bumpy bump

Are you actually talking about "Superfetch"? How to disable Superfetch in Windows 7? | Windows 7 Themes

I'd rather suggest upping the pagefile then disabling that, though.

'[R-COM wrote:SnipingCoward;1601797']Are you actually talking about "Superfetch"? How to disable Superfetch in Windows 7? | Windows 7 Themes

I'd rather suggest upping the pagefile then disabling that, though.

Will disabling this fix my problem? I already upped the page file cuz i thought maybe it was a memory issue bit its not.

From what I read superfetch dsn't have anything to do with freezing. it just makes applications load faster.

EDIT: Also might i add, the pc passes all recommended system requirements on http://www.systemrequirementslab.com by far.

I do not believe that turning off superfetch will cure your problem.

This might be a driver issue.

It still might be an overheating issue - unless you know the temperatures you cannot be sure. Some laptops are badly designed and will have trouble with heat when playing games.

Does Event Viewer show anything suspicious?

[R-COM]SnipingCoward wrote:I do not believe that turning off superfetch will cure your problem.

This might be a driver issue.

It still might be an overheating issue - unless you know the temperatures you cannot be sure. Some laptops are badly designed and will have trouble with heat when playing games.

Does Event Viewer show anything suspicious?

I checked my drivers they're all up to date. temperature is around 65 while gaming and around 45-50 when just browsing or watching movies.

Next time it freezes ill look at the log, but as of now i cant rly find anything.

FYI, last night I played kozelsk(I can never play a full map without freezing up) for the whole map on all low setting and the moment we got to kashan and apache was coming towards us and we killed it i froze up the instant the apache blew up in front of us.

[R-COM]SnipingCoward wrote:I do not believe that turning off superfetch will cure your problem.

This might be a driver issue.

It still might be an overheating issue - unless you know the temperatures you cannot be sure. Some laptops are badly designed and will have trouble with heat when playing games.

Does Event Viewer show anything suspicious?

I checked my drivers they're all up to date. temperature is around 65 while gaming and around 45-50 when just browsing or watching movies.

Next time it freezes ill look at the log, but as of now i cant rly find anything

bump bump

daily bump

So no fixes? I've done everything imaginable besides turning off my anti-virus software.

I have same problem, just freeze on a game-play.
Core I7 -980x
Geforce GTX480
6GB RAM

Its no overheat or something like this
I play all games at max setting and have no problems, but BF2PR i just don't know what to do, i try everything

I`d put my house on it over heating. The GPU and CPU share the same heat sink over a heat pipe to a heat sink to a fan. The temp is from your CPU and the GPU is further down the pipe. SO you can add allot of temp to that before it gets to the heatsink with the fan.

Do you have any freezer pack from when you go camping or a large bag of frozen peas.. put a bag on your table cover with a thin towel or pillow case. Then sit your laptop on top. see how long it will run for then. Do not block air flow to the side of your laptop.

THIS IS ONLY TO TEST AND KEEP THE LAPTOP COOL WHILE YOU TEST FOR OVER HEATING. I am not suggesting you do this all the time. JUST TO TEST.