Comments on: PC Woes

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:20:15 +0000

How old are your video drivers? I used to see that sort of thing when drivers became out of date. Often it’s not really an issue in the game, usually it was caused by a newer version of DirectX that needed to be installed with some other game or something.

At least, that was the case in my experence.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:52:07 +0000

If you’re using any of your existing parts for your new system, start with the power supply. If that’s faulty it will destroy system stability faster than anything else. The behavior you got when trying to use a higher powered video card seems to point in that direction as well.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:24:57 +0000

You should make yourself a pre-xmas present. For Mirkwood launch. My father also needs a new system, it has trouble to boot up and has become slow as hell, motherboard, RAM, HD defective – but he says it is still working, after all…

But I already decided to buy him a new desktop. We will go shopping when we see a good xmas offer.

By: xXJayeDuBXx

xXJayeDuBXx — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:34:09 +0000

Wow, sorry to hear that.

By: Oakstout

Oakstout — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:07:39 +0000

I feel your pain. I went through the exact same issue. My system would Blue screen of death right in the middle of a 25 man raid and well, when your the off tank, that can be a bad thing. I spent weeks trying to track down the issue, only to reinstall windows xp and purchase a new video card. I did a reinstall of World of Warcraft as well. This has apparently fixed the BSOD but, I still get a little bit of video stutter every now and then, but who knows if it just isn’t lag from their server.

I will be much happier when they start releasing MMO’s on Consoles and let you hook up a mouse and keyboard to run them.

By: Merric

Merric — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:03:34 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been there before and it stinks, so you have my sympathy. If it makes you feel any better though; I’ve been running LOTRO pretty well on Win7 x64 so I think you’ll have a very positive experience once all is said and done.
Maybe this might help for today?

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ip_cyber_mondaythe_megadeal_roundup