Everything about my build is perfect...450W Antec PSU, AMD 64 3200+, 2GB OCZ Performance RAM, eVga 7800GT, 250 Gig Seagate HD, Creative X-Fi, MSI K8N Neo-F
Newest versions of all drivers (do HDDs have drivers?), windows xp home.
and yet, games will not play. literally everything else runs fine, but games do not. in battlefield 2 (version 1.3), it loads to 46% on every level, then completely freezes. can't even ctrl-alt-del out of it, mouse completely stops. in mafia, it doesn't even load fully, just a black screen. haven't tried any others yet for fear of similar results.
any ideas?
Newest versions of all drivers (do HDDs have drivers?), windows xp home.
and yet, games will not play. literally everything else runs fine, but games do not. in battlefield 2 (version 1.3), it loads to 46% on every level, then completely freezes. can't even ctrl-alt-del out of it, mouse completely stops. in mafia, it doesn't even load fully, just a black screen. haven't tried any others yet for fear of similar results.
any ideas?