Can't play WoW.

[Huurka]

I can't play WoW. I'm using Windows Vista but i used to play wow for a long time before this happend.


I can play for about 10-30 minutes then the computers kinda turns off. The screen goes black, but the computer keeps running, so i have to reboot by pressing the reboot button on the computer.

Help required and appreciated.

 

[DwarfZealot]

Its something to do with your monitor, I had the same problem once the only solution I found was to get a new monitor. its something about video card capability with the monitor... I think. I am not much of a techy, but i hope that helped

 

[Samuraid]

It could be a number of things wrong, but I would start with checking out the video card. Do you have a spare video card you could swap in to see if that fixes the problem?

 

[Huurka]

Yeah, probably. But the computer have been on and have been played Warcraft 3 messing with World Editor and suchs. But when i enter WoW and play for 30 minutes it goes like what i said in OP.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

first try the newest nvidia drivers, alot of the time its because your drivers have been corrupted.

 

[Huurka]

first try the newest nvidia drivers, alot of the time its because your drivers have been corrupted.

I did the autosearch function for the newest drivers and it said i have it already.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

try booting and loading wow in safe mode (if wow can play in safe mode?) and just see how it handles. maybe go afk for an hour and see if you pc has rebooted by the time you get back. if it hasnt then its not your wow build, mem or processor.

these sorts of problems are usually the graphics card.

have you only recently installed wow on you pc?

have you recently upgraded to vista?

is it a new pc and if so have you built it yourself?

 

[Huurka]

I installed WoW for 3 months ago

Upgraded to vista long time ago.

Old computer, built it myself.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

and i take it you have been having this problem ever since you installed wow.

can you list the specs on your pc?

does this happen with any other resource intensive game such as oblivion?

 

[Samuraid]

Well, the most likely causes are:
- Video Card
- Power supply
- Cooling problem

 

[NoNZealot]

I'm thinking more on power supply and cooling problem. I know because it happened to me a lot. My cooling system was broken and the moniter thing was happening very often. Also it did happen when my power supply was about to finish its "life". I don't think it's the video card though because I never had such problem with video card. But don't know about you. I would focus on the last 2 options as they look like they are the problem MOST

 

[GST_Nemisis]

you would only get power or heating problems when you are running something that is hardware intensive, if you run other games like oblivion and crysis with no problem you can move away from the power supply or heating issue. having said that, a crash which is delayed would suggest a heating issue, or possibly a problem with you wow build or graphics drivers.

 

[redmarine]

My computer had some issues regarding heath. It usually crashed when my brother played WoW but I've fixed the issue by putting some stuff underneath it so it can cool better.

 

[zwacka]

This often happends for my gaming laptop (like 60 fricken pounds lmao).
Usually it gets better if I cool it down.

On the other hand, WoW is a pretty graphically intense game for some computers.

 

[Super-Sheep]

I had similiar problem, but even if I moved mouse on my desktop too hardly my computer turned off.

I got the problem fixed by sending my computer to repairing.