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Re: freezage Posted by FatStrings on Sun Sep 24th 2006 at 3:11am
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Posted 2006-09-24 3:11am
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FatStrings
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so all of my steam apps have started randomly freezing up and i have to exit out of the programs and start over to play them, Dark Massiah is the worst, with it this happens around once a minute. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Re: freezage Posted by Naklajat on Sun Sep 24th 2006 at 3:21am
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Posted 2006-09-24 3:21am
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Negative, and I haven't heard anyone else have that problem either. Try restarting Steam, checking for malware, and clearing the Task Manager of unnecessary processes before you play.

EDIT: What kind of hardware you got? and do you experience problems with any other programs?

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Re: freezage Posted by FatStrings on Sun Sep 24th 2006 at 3:31am
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Posted 2006-09-24 3:31am
Post #129621
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done, my computer has plenty of memory, i have 2 GB RAM and 4 GB swap files along with a 3.6 GHz processor, my computers clean, i recently defragged it and i delete temp files all of the time

i don't understand what's causing it
Re: freezage Posted by wil5on on Sun Sep 24th 2006 at 5:18am
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Posted 2006-09-24 5:18am
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You didnt mention any virus/spyware scans...
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Re: freezage Posted by Gorbachev on Sun Sep 24th 2006 at 5:44am
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Posted 2006-09-24 5:44am
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driver versions?
Re: freezage Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Sun Sep 24th 2006 at 8:26am
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Posted 2006-09-24 8:26am
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Could be overheating issues too. Source engine turns your GFX card
quite hot when you have lots of goodies on. Although my best guess
would be the graphics drivers, especially if you're running an ATi
card, although they have a tendency to work with Source engine better
than with for example D3 engine.
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Re: freezage Posted by FatStrings on Mon Sep 25th 2006 at 2:01am
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Posted 2006-09-25 2:01am
Post #129682
FatStrings
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no viruses
and graphics would seem an odd thing to be having problems with since everything worked fine a month ago, i had to reformat sometime last month and the only app i can run indefinately on steam is the sdk
Re: freezage Posted by Rumple on Mon Sep 25th 2006 at 7:43am
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Posted 2006-09-25 7:43am
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FatStrings said:
and graphics would seem an odd thing to be having problems with since everything worked fine a month ago
Ive found anything can go wrong with computers at anytime.
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Re: freezage Posted by FatStrings on Tue Sep 26th 2006 at 1:29am
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Posted 2006-09-26 1:29am
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FatStrings
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this is very true, but the only change so far was that my computer crashed and now it's all freshly installed, so it should be "clean"
Re: freezage Posted by OtZman on Tue Sep 26th 2006 at 2:22pm
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Posted 2006-09-26 2:22pm
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I reinstalled steam after not having used it for a long time a few days ago and installed Natural Selection. When I exit NS steam freezes and I have to Ctrl+Alt+Del and kill the process. Could it be related?
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