| Weird yet relavent gaming questions my rig is 8Gig Ram, HD 6700 Radeon, Asus MB, amd 1TB HDD. How many "high end" games would be acceptable to have installed. I currently have COD, Skyrim and am looking forward SWTOR. Just dont want any lag or slow down due to too much being installed. besides games, I only have antivirus (Kapersky) and CCcleaner installed. Any Ideas? I appreciate the advice. |
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 KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
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| SWTOR is not graphically challenging. If you can play Skyrim, you probably can play SWTOR. MMORPGs are not typically "bleeding edge" because they want as many people as possible to play.
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Also forgot to mention 600w PS. and also might as well throw this in this question to the same thread to save space. lately. My screen has just been going to blue while in the middle of say checking my email or general web browsing no gaming at all, just began happening today. Forcing me to restart the PC and then it working fine again. Any ideas on what this could be? or how to fix it? I do have the ATI catalyst center installed if that has any settings that may be of help? Thanks again. |
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| Please turn off automatic restart after crashing and post the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) codes. Right now it would just be speculation on our part without those codes. A 600w PSU is enough power for what you are using (what CPU do you have?).
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| It is not a BSOD it just goes light blue like the Windows 7 start bar at the bottom color. with a little pattern to it and stays that way until a manual restart. I have been the one restarting it it hasnt auto restarted itself. As per the original question, I should be able to run quite a few "higher end" games all on the same right without slowing each other down? Ive seen friends computers whom have like 30 games installed which just seems insane to me. |
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| What you are describing sounds like Windows 7 switching themes because the computer is slowing down, usually because it is taxed by an intensive process (usually a game). I wouldn't worry about it.
said by RichardCubbs :Ive seen friends computers whom have like 30 games installed which just seems insane to me.
Incoming shocker: the amount of stuff you have installed has to do with your hard disk capacity, not your graphics card or processor.
I'm pretty sure I have literally dozens upon dozens of installed games.
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| Ok. even if it does that during non gameplay and just general web usage? and fair enough on the installed games side of things, thanks. I'm sure with a terabyte Ill be okay for awhile. |
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Don't matter, don't fill your hdd to 0 free and you are good.
Running them all at the same time is a different story.
Screen, please take a screen shot (print screen button) and post it showing the screen color issue. |
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Re: Weird yet relavent gaming questions The color problem could be from GPU's ram faulty or just some software issue. If it's from GPU than you have to change it (I hope you have warranty). |
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How long have you let it go before pounding on your power button? Asking to verify it's not just your machine hanging up on some random process.
If it's not a BSOD, I would think the first suspect culprit would be your video card. Or....it could be something as silly as your monitor cable being a tad loose. |
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