achilles04
06-19-2007, 12:25 PM
<p>Hey all. Having some serious problems with my new machine and any help would be highly appreciated.</p><p>Heres the system ive just bought:</p><p>Lian-Li V2100B Plus Black Case</p><p>Antarctic Extreme Liquid Water Cooling</p><p>Enermax Galaxy PSU</p><p>Asus Striker Extreme</p><p>Intel Core 2 Quad QX6800 Extreme (4x 2.93Ghz)</p><p>OCZ DDR2 - 800 2 x 2048 (Vista Upgrade)</p><p>2 x BFG Nvidia 8800 Ultra OC 768mb PCIe HDCP in SLI Mode</p><p>BFG Ageia PhysX Card</p><p>Windows Vista Ultimate</p><p>2 x Raptor 10k HD's</p><p>Its in my opinion one of the best pc's available on the market today, the specs are awesome to say the least. Heres the issue, everytime i start eq2, if the graphic setting is set anywhere over Balanced in the options menu, my whole system crashes out or eq2 and the pc totally lock up. </p><p>Yesterday i was in QH bank, stood still and not even doing anything, it took around 3 minutes before lock up occured. The odd thing is on friday i spent almost 5 hours in game with raiding pvping etc with no problems as the gfx were set to extreme performance. My old machine could easily handle eq2 on balanced without any issues at all. This 'pos' above cant even do that. I even tried placing gfx on the next one up from extreme performance and the system ran out of memory within 15 minuts max.</p><p>Ive spoken to the guys which built the machine for me and they are saying that its all down to the program and is not their responsibilty. For the few people ive spoken to however, i know there are a few slight issues with Vista and eq2 but i cant say im even remote to their problems as i get constant lock ups. So far the only help ive recieved is to be told to try and install a copy of xp pro - naturally im not too chuffed at that answer which came from the supplier!</p><p>Ive also tried a couple of other games on this rig, namely Mark Of Chaos, Cell Factor and Ghost Recon, and i have to say that for a rig of this standard, not one game runs acceptibly. Again all i hear from the supplier is that the games are designed around DX10 and Vista, yet i find it hard to believe a top end gaming system such as this, cant run any games which werent made yesterday!</p><p>Any help or advice would be much appreciated as at the moment i have a preverbial brick with glowy lights sat under my desk <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Im also contemplating contacting microsoft directly to ask if vista really can cause this many issue with such an array of games as the supplier of my pc is basically saying i cant get a refund of my money :O</p><p>Cheers in advance for any help.</p>