Computer Gaming Problems...
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  • Posted On: Apr 17 2007 6:38am
Ok, I recently bought and started playing Sid Meier's Railroads!, and it's an awesome game, basically Railroad Tycoon 2+3 combined along with several other cool features, it's a really fun game for people who love trains, but I'm running into problems.

Now, I'll get a message saying that my video card drivers are out of date when I start the game, but I can't find any up to date drivers.

Anyways, I'll run the game, and it's smooth smailing, until about ten-fifteen minutes later, when the game will freeze for a moment before my computer restarts.

It could be the video card drivers issue, but I wanted advice from the experts here before I tried to solve it.

My CD-ROM is also old, so could this pose a problem as well?

My video card is a Nvidia GeForce FX5500 graphics card, and does really well on my other games. I've tried downloading updated drivers from their (Nvidia) website, but it won't let me. I'll go a license page, yes I accept, then nothing.

So, an alternate solution; If it is my video card that's the problem, and if I'm not able to download updated drivers, then would an ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card be a good replacement? That's the best looking I've seen in my price range in the local area.
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  • Posted On: Apr 17 2007 2:15pm
Might be that old CD-ROM you have there, matey...
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  • Posted On: Apr 17 2007 3:03pm
What's the GPU temp? Could be overheating. If you need a new card a 6600GT is still in the sweet spot.