Display troubles Inspiron 1520

Question

While playing Call of Duty 4 (and Halo) but mainly CoD4, my screen will freeze up for about 10-15 seconds, go black, then come back on. When playing multi player this causes some problems in the form of 1-3 minutes of connection interrupt. It would not be so bad but it happens almost once (some times more) every 5-7 minutes. When I exit the game I get the above message.

My system is as follows:

Dell Inspiron 1520

Windows Vista Home Premium

Intel Core 2 duo GHz

2 Gigs ram

Nvidia 8600M gt 256Mb onboard ram

That all I think matters with I problem, but I will post more if needed.

I updated the drivers for the video card about 1 month ago, and the problem got worse, so I've not updated that of a while now.

Has anyone else had troubles with this?

ramthehammer · Answer

I have a Dell 1720 with the same NVIDIA 8600M GT and get exactly the same isue running Guild Wars. I sure hope someone knows a solution to this!   Richard

.BuckHunt. · Answer

I turned off the anti-aliasing and it helped for a while but then happened a couple more times.

jonsolo · Answer

Stupid question but have you updated your video drivers? The latest from Dell are not the best.  I actually used the update through Microsoft and have not had a problem since then. Solo

ramthehammer · Answer

I have the 1720 with the problem and it has the latest Dell driver installed. If I opt to install the one from microsoft should I uninstall the Dell one first?   Thanks,   Richard

jonsolo · Answer

Yes.  Always do that.  And if you can find CCleaner somewhere on the net, use that as well to clear out your registry.  That way there is no residual anywhere to cause problems. Solo

.BuckHunt. · Answer

I'm compleatly up-to-date with my WU.   Driver: I hit the 'Update Driver' button and there are no new drivers for it.

jonsolo · Answer

Yes that is the one I have. Hmmm. I do not play those games, and mine is in a 1720 so I am not really sure what the problem could be.

I just stopped having the problem (which was about every other day) when I first got my system. An update solved that.

Solo

ramthehammer · Answer

Solo,

Thanks for the help. I had driver version 7.15.11.5669 loaded from the Dell web site. I have uninstalled it, ran CCleaner rebooted and loaded the latest driver from Microsoft - also 7.15.11.5669!

I will let everyone know if it fixed the problem tonight when I get home from work.

Richard

ramthehammer · Answer

Just to update everyone - I still have the same problem!

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