Problems running games?

[myrockfight]

I tried to run Pacific Fighters and it froze up at 20% when trying to load.

I also tried to load Hitman. It would not load either.

I have no idea what is going on and I have not changed any settings other than my monitor (brightness, contrast, etc.)

Any ideas?

[dittohead]

specs?

[xilix]

Yeah man, we need way more information than that.

[myrockfight]

specs?

I put them into my sig, but for some reason they don't show up.

eVGA 680 SLI mobo

6300 Crusoe processor

1GB of Crucial Ann. 5300 RAM (Got a bad stick, so I am waiting to replace the other GB)

eVGA GeForce 7950GT Overclocked
running 2 Syncmaster Samsung 225BW LCD monitors

WD Raptor 74GB

[xilix]

Does it kick you to the desktop or totally freeze and force you to do a hard reset? Is it throwing any errors at all?

Make sure you have the lastest directx, graphics card/soundcard/ect drivers installed. Also run a couple hard drive utilities and memory checker to see if all that's healthy.

[myrockfight]

Turns out the da## antivirus software was freezing it up. After looking through most everything else, I totally disabled the AV software. The games ran fine after that.

What I thought was odd, was how it let the program start up at all. I did not get a message from the AV software telling me the game was trying to start up. Interesting....:shrug:

[xilix]

That's wierd. Which AV software was it? Let us know so just in case this happens to other people, they'll know another thing to look for.