Vista - 64bit gaming crashes

Help please.

First system I've assembled with a computer savy friend.Asus P6T deluxe,i7 940,Corsair DDR3 Dominator 1600,Evga Gtx 280,PcPower and Cooling 860watt,Vista Home Premiun 64bit,Creative Xi-fi Fatl1ty sound card.

My problem is playing Cod 5 Waw,I'm getting freeze screens.Always black horizon but lower graphics still showing.If I hit Cntrl,Alt,Delete out of the game then hit cancel in Vista.I can get back into game.If it lets me back in the game it will usually not crash again and work well.Other times I get disconnected. Other games I'm getting strange thin lines of color across screen.I've adjusted ram frequency to 1.65 using xmp in bios.Didn't solve problem.Did make it much smoother when it does work good.Using driver 180.48 I've updated evga driver and newer ones crash more.Do I need to adjust some other aspect of system to get total smoothness?Should I ditch 64 bit?Any helpful hints or thought's greatly welcomed!

Thanks very much!
kreika

Ummm... I think COD WAW has some 64 bit issues. I can't run it but my friends can (they use 32 bit). I would not however dump 64 bit just because of games. 64 bit has so many other advantages.

64-bit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't have any problems at all with this game in my 64 bit system. I believe the cause is driver conflict with the new cards because I've heard this complain here and there.

Cool thanks.My friend runs 32 bit also and it's super smooth.

bruce2 what do you recommend?What kind of card are you using in your 64 bit system?

Thanks mattinhat

i dont have any problems running codwaw on vista 64, but i suppose it could be something up with the install, i downloaded it off steam so i know that the install isnt exactly standard.

Do you have any of the ASUS "utilities" that came on the support disk loaded? That could be causing some of your problems. I got rid of all that junk and did a clean Vista install WITHOUT AItweaker, PCProbe, TurboV, ExpressGate, etc. System has been buch more stable without the ASUS stuff. I am running a system much the same as yours. Don't have your games, but FSX looks fantastic, runs rock solid @ 50 to 100+ FPS.

Alan

kreika69, I wouldn't recommend my cards in my spec 'cause they are obsolete. What you got is great. There is just a glitch you have that I still don't see a definite solution yet. There are many suggestions might fix it that you may try or Nvidia will.

Let us know when you find a fix. Thanks.

Bruce

@ the OP

What driver version are you running?

Are they beta or WHQL official release?

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