Some games keep crashing

[tadukaz9]

Maybe anyone know what the problem could be there? CS:GO menu and while loading map works fine, but just loaded map, and started game, text crashes like there, and all textures are different collors and sometimes PC reboots. This happens in half of the games, but other works fine like CS 1.6, Killing floor, league of legends, team fortress 2, left 4 dead 2, loadout. Please help me find the sollution. P.S. sorry for bad English. https://i.imgur.com/WdmtKZr.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uD1KXo2.jpg CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
RAM: 3.3 GB
Video Card: GeForce 9600 GT 1.1 GB

[Lethn]

If this is happening on all of your games then it sounds like this could be either an issue with either your Graphics Card or RAM failing, what you can do to figure out whether it's at least the RAM is run a program called memtest, it will take awhile and you can just leave it on overnight but this will let you find out for sure which component this is. I've had this problem before and it turned out it was the RAM failing and it just needed to be replaced, this is just what happens with old components, what's happening on your screen is called artifacts and it's the components struggling to render what's on your screen which is why it turns out all weird like that.

If the memtest doesn't show anything then it's most likely your graphics card that needs replacing.

[Kiki112]

try updating your graphics driver, install new directx..

hope I helped

[tadukaz9]

I gave a list of games for which there's no problems, i play like always, but some don't work, like CS:GO, The Sims 3 (worked before, then don'tt worked, now works again), COD (worked before, now didn't work)... Drivers and directx are up to date.

[Lethn]

I just told you what to do, go and download memtest and find out if your RAM has failed, this will tell you whether your Graphics Card or RAM has broken, it will likely be one or the other if nothing else has gone wrong on your PC.

[WEB slicer]

i bet video card, you can stress test your GPU with this and see if it crashes.

http://unigine.com/products/heaven/

[tadukaz9]

I've got this all trough 50%, and nothing else happened https://i.imgur.com/lbBbAqt.png so yea i have 2+ gb of ram to use ( was skype and steam running), haven't tried that ^ with GPU, couse net is really slow, will take 3-4hours to download, will do it at night time.

[Lethn]

Like I said, just run it overnight and make sure it goes to 100% then you'll know for sure, if it's not the memory it's probably the graphics card, the only other way to check it is to swap in the components with new ones to see if it makes any difference.

[Kiki112]

watch your temperature, perhaps you overheat your components

I had a simmiliar thing like 30 minutes before my video card burned down

[tadukaz9]

Oh, well, about memory, i can run 2-4 other games w/o problem which dont crashes, but can't run one which use less and crashes, so i think will take my pc to engineer and ask to set windows xp -> windows 7 and new graphic card 

[softron]

It happens frequently. Maybe u need a gaming pc. Are u mining with the same pc.

[Lethn]

Don't bother with changing platforms, that won't make the slightest difference but putting in a new graphics card will probably let you find the problem.

[nachius]

It's more than likely the video card as has been mentioned, but it doesn't sound like you want to listen to any advice on here.

[durrrr]

if you are using the pc for anything other than gaming then maybe that is the problem? it could be too much for what your running
 but isnt counter strike used to running onolder pcs and stuff

[BTCLotto]

If PC is rebooting then I would check temps of GPU.

[b!z]

Go to Steam library, delete files, reinstall game

[Kiki112]

try reinstalling the game..
or contacting support if they have one

[Lamalicious]

try reinstalling the game..
or contacting support if they have one

Topic starter mentioned that he encounter this type of glitches not only in the CS:GO. Driver and DirectX re-installing may or may not resolve a problem. Try it out and let us know.

[Lethn]

It's obvious what the problem is but he's not liking the answer, these kind of problems only tend to happen when you've got something going wrong with the components, not when it's an old version of Directx or a problem with steam, look up what game artifacts are guys, they tend to occur when a component is struggling to render things inside a game, that's why the game will either end up with half-rendered textures or unfinished text etc.

[b!z]

Did you try looking up different gfx settings or launch options OP?