Nvidia card problem (I think)

[Space Cowboy]

Very strange problem here. Thing is, it's not entirely HL2 specific but people here have really good knowledge on hardware.

I've got a 128 MB Nvidia Geforce Ti4600 Card. HL2 has been working fine for ages but about a week ago I've been having major problems. Game loads fine but then it will freeze for about 30 seconds then I'll be able to play for maybe 5 seconds then it will freeze again, ultimately ending up with some graphical problem. Needless to say the game is totally unplayable.

Doesn't happen with just HL2 as well. Rome: Total War has the same problem. problem occurs as soon as it loads from the menu to the game.
I've turned off antialiasing ages ago and I turned it back on but to no avail (sp?).
I've tried reinstalling graphics drivers, scanned for spyware, cleaned the registry. Nothing helps.
The weird thing is that the problem happened so suddenly.
Hope someone can help me out or point me to a hardware forum of sorts.
Specs are:
Pentium 4 2.53 Ghz
512 MB RAM
Windows XP
Nvidia Geforce 128MB Ti4600

 

[D7™]

dunno m8 tbh,if you get no joy here try http://forums.guru3d.com/

 

[dogboy73]

Not what you want to hear but if it's happening on all games it sounds like it could be a problem with the card. check to make sure the fan is okay. I had a problem with an old 9800 Pro where the fan was knackered & the card kept overheating! By the time I realised I think the card's GPU was fried!! Gutted :-(

 

[MonkyD]

I'm getting exactly the same problem. My game was fine at first but now is practically impossible to play is it will lock up for 10 seconds or so every few steps. The sound jutters and

I have a NVidia Ti4400 with latest drivers. P4 3.0 and 1gig ram.

Any help would be appreciated. My fan seems to be working fine.

 

[ZoFreX]

Check that you actually have the latest drivers - compare the version listed on the drivers being used to what it says on nvidias website.

 

[TEDR]

have you got latest drivers nvidia, latest sound card drivers etc motherboard agp drivers etc etc

and turn down your settings antialiasing turn it off and anisotropic filtering turn that off too.

 

[MonkyD]

Thanks but no luck.

I tried turning antialiasing and anisotropic filtering off aswell as trying windowed mode.

Strange thing was that I managed to get to the "Anticitizen" mission before I had any of this trouble. I've formatted my hard drive since and completely reinstalled everything including all up-to-date graphic, sound and motherboard drivers. I also tried disabling my onboard sound in BIOS to check to see if the sound card was at fault bit no luck.

It's a shame as this game was damn good before this happened.

 

[fooldall]

Hey Monky, it's a stretch, but try reseating your card. You might also try rolling back your driver to an earlier version to see if there is some type of driver incompatibility going on there. Just a thought.