Computer freezes with funky images

[mattpilot 0]

I've ran into some problems with the demo.

Whenever i play the game, it ALWAYS freezes up into a hardlock with wierd coloured squares on my monitor (not game related). At that point i immediately press the Reset button to prevent any possible damage to my hardware.

On normal graphics settings, i usually get about 1-3 minute of gameplay before it happens. On Low settings, i can i play up to about 30 minutes and on high quality settings less than a minute.

The thing is, the game runs incredibly smooth on all video settings - i just can't explain the freeze. The video card temp is fine and all other 3d games i have run fine too. I have tried latest video card drivers & older ones.

My video card is a Geforce 6800 GT 256mb. I got an athlon 64 3700, 2gigs of ram, & i run winXP. Any other useful information i could provide?

I ran a search for anything that sounds similar but have found nothing useful.

Thanks for any advice ya' guys might have.

[2Lt High-16AAB- 0]

I had similiar problems like that as well but on the full game version. After turning my firewall of & downloading the patch 1.02 I have no problems since.

Not sure if this helps ya.

[mattpilot 0]

I had similiar problems like that as well but on the full game version. After turning my firewall of & downloading the patch 1.02 I have no problems since.

Not sure if this helps ya.

I'm concerned that when i buy the full version i will have the same problem.

Did your problem go away with the patch itself, or did you make some kind of changes in your computer settings?

[2Lt High-16AAB- 0]

This was my link check here also check the notes from Placebo & sickboy

here

[Marines 0]

His issue is not related to his firewall, and sounds to be a GPU error of some sort. Uninstall you current card set drivers, download and reinstall the latest one available. If that still doesn't work, I'd suggest you work your way back to a previous series of drivers.