The Big RACE Freeze Thread

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

I saw a lot of guys which have big issues with freezing pc's during a race, please let me do some investigation and check this poll.

 

[Damian Henderson]

Before i use this,also freeze

Shame

Yes you can use the driver's if your not using none English XP.

 

[Mtommi Tam]

I will try this driver
NVIDIA OpenGL 3.0/3.1/3.2 Support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris

 

[Mtommi Tam]

Now,my place is am 04:00,
Ok,need to sleep,
tomorrow i shall fix pc again

Thx more m8 help me

Thx
Mtommi

 

[Mike Coleman]

If my window XP is not a english version,can use it ?

Yes, they are international drivers.

 

[Mtommi Tam]

Try these:

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html#dl

These are the latest drivers from nVidia. Very very good set.

10 days without a freeze

last night,i use it,no freeze,i play more time.....7 hours
Now,is 1 day,
Now,i hope 1 day 2 day,1 month,1 year,10 years,no freeze

 

[Dennis Phelan]

I have a GTX 285 and running 185.85 with only very occasional freezes[ and those colorful screen changes]. Really only very occasional. The box is six months old.

The other day, while racing I experienced it happening multiple times at one event. I almost didn't get to race, even though I had rebooted. It was a very hot day, the air conditioning was on and I even had a small fan blowing on the PC. Later that day I took the cover off the box and vacuumed out the interior. The fan in the video card, which has many blades all close together had collected quite a bit of dust and dog hairs[4 dogs], the effect was to just about totally close off any air getting to the inside of the card.

Completely clean inside now, no freeze. Overheating "can" be a bad thing and I'll be cleaning off the fan more often now.

 

[Mtommi Tam]

I think Mike Coleman gave this drivers is ok for GTR-E and rFactor,
Today also no freeze enjoy race,
So, if every m8 freeze,pls use Mike Coleman gave this good driver link

NVIDIA OpenGL 3.0/3.1/3.2 Support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html#dl

Thx Mike Coleman help all freeze m8 again

Thank you very much,Mike Coleman

Mtommi

 

[Mike Coleman]

Hehe glad they are working for you

 

[Dennis Phelan]

OK, I can't understand anything they're talking about at that link, never been much for the innerd's of the box.
I can tell it's the 190.56 drivers for OpenGL but I'm leery of using it. Some Falcon AF users report problems using the186.xx and 190.38 drivers and I'm good to go in Falcon. I've never thought my problem was serious, I'd hate to have it get worse.

:question:

 

[Mike Coleman]

I've never thought my problem was serious, I'd hate to have it get worse.

:question:

That answers your own question

Those are beta drivers in my link so you should take that into consideration.

Personally I think they are best drivers to come out this year, but I only play racing sims.

If your freezes aren't serious, then I would stick with the drivers you have.

 

[Mike Coleman]

New Official WHQL drivers are out at the nVidia site: 190.62

Will report back if these are as good with the freezing problem as the last set.

*edit*

These drivers are simply great! Not a freeze all day.

If you are still using the 190.38 drivers, do yourself a favor and get the new ones. The last patch does not play well with the 190.38's.

 

[Ricardo Silva]

hi there,

I got a EVGA 8800 GTS 320mb, yesterday i got the same problem , now i see that i was playing with 190.38 drivers, i will now test the 190.62, i will put my feedback where.

 

[Damian Henderson]

Good feedback here from the latest driver's to:

[ame]http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108889[/ame]

 

[Grégory Cogotti]

Since the last steam update for GTR evo, i never occured freeze (with the same driver before and after). I'm sure this update resolved the problem (for me!)

 

[Mtommi Tam]

I think Mike Coleman gave this drivers is ok for GTR-E and rFactor,
Today also no freeze enjoy race,
So, if every m8 freeze,pls use Mike Coleman gave this good driver link

NVIDIA OpenGL 3.0/3.1/3.2 Support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html#dl

Thx Mike Coleman help all freeze m8 again

Thank you very much,Mike Coleman

Mtommi

I forget this is how many day,but,That day to this day,i play GTR-E is 100% sure no freeze

 

[Mtommi Tam]

Now,no problem

 

[Abdul Al-Amry]

I get the odd freeze twice or thrice a week. Not only the game freezes but the entire pc freezes with a buzz noise from the speakers.

 

[Mr Chip]

Have you guys tried GAMEBOOSTER?

http://www.iobit.com/gameboosterhtml

Its an app that shuts down all non-essential background tasks while gaming, and is fully controllable.

I also use http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html to clean out my pc after having major problems with NFS constantly crashing.

I used both of these today and so far have had around 3 hours of constant playing on NFS Shift, so they must be doing something!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Another league race wasted by the freeze problem. I give up, have uninstalled steam and all my expansion packs. I am done with it!

 

[Tobias Kluge]

Another league race wasted by the freeze problem. I give up, have uninstalled steam and all my expansion packs. I am done with it!

I understand your frustration, you can't do anything about it. :disapointed:
Someone has this badly freezes, some lucker like me not anymore. SimBin knows the problem, but cannot solve this matter yet.