Games Cause PC to Lock Up
My computer is a P4 2.66GHz running XP with the latest updates from Microsoft and 1G of memory. About 2 months ago I upgraded my video card to an Nvidia 6600 series card (friend upgraded and I got it free). I downloaded and installed new drives.
My computer works fine for most tasks... standard office tools, email, internet and some computer games... C&C2. With C&C3 I had to manually de-tune graphics capability to prevent lockup. With newer games like Orange Box, I get about 2 minutes of play before lockup. I then started looking at older games that I played in the past (Oblivion, Civ 4 and Halflife 2) and noticed that they lock my machine up as well. The more graphics a program uses, the faster it locks up/
It appears something is wrong with my settings, but I can't figure it out.
Help.
Rodandy...