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[mantahatch]

I am a keen amatuer with PC's and have built my own PC about 18 months ago. Been fine all that time, installed windows 7 about 3 or 4 months ago, clean install, formatted disk drive.

It is a bit of a gaming machine, and when playing any hungry game, GTA or COD I am randomly getting complete freezing of the PC, in the last month.

Windows reports "Wsearch" has caused the problem. If I google it it says it is adware or spyware and many "offers" to remove it.

I run AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials. Neither report any problems and I do scan MSE weekly and AVG daily.

I suppose I am asking if "Wsearch" is a problem or is it part of windows.

Thanks in advance.

[aaronjb]

Pretty sure Wsearch is the Windows Search Indexing service (and that the myriad of sites telling you how to remove it are scams)..

If it's crashing under heavy load and never any other time, is your PSU powerful enough and/or is it producing a high voltage ripple under high load?

Wsearch does seem to be a resource hog (according to things I read, anyway - I'm a Mac man, these days) so it could easily be the 'most likely' place for the computer to bail rather than the true cause..

[cem_devecioglu]

those games utilize hardware fully.. if your system dont have any problem outside the games, I think you need some parameter tuning for the games itself..

or some tuning for gpu..


check this 2 sites..

http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/2009/08/08/pc-gaming-fail-gta-iv-bugs-and-troubleshooting-tips/


http://www.mapmodnews.com/article.php?story=Call-of-Duty-Modern-Warfare-2-Errors

and forgot to add check your event logs and game logs..

[Mr Skrunts]

Heavy duty games relay on a good graphics car, depending on what you have may depend on what you can play.

What's the machines spec?

[mantahatch]

Thanks for the advice chaps, have followed Cem's links and adjusted a few settings. Things looking better but only time will tell.
PC spec is: Intel core 2 duo 3.33ghz, windows 7 32 bit, 4gb ram, NVidia 9600GT video card, Gigabyte S series m/board, 650 watt power supply, on board sound.

[Mr Skrunts]

Thanks for the advice chaps, have followed Cem's links and adjusted a few settings. Things looking better but only time will tell.
PC spec is: Intel core 2 duo 3.33ghz, windows 7 32 bit, 4gb ram, NVidia 9600GT video card, Gigabyte S series m/board, 650 watt power supply, on board sound.

Seems a decent spec, I had an 8600GT with 256MB  ran a lot of games but ran out of steam on others.

[cem_devecioglu]

Thanks for the advice chaps, have followed Cem's links and adjusted a few settings. Things looking better but only time will tell.
PC spec is: Intel core 2 duo 3.33ghz, windows 7 32 bit, 4gb ram, NVidia 9600GT video card, Gigabyte S series m/board, 650 watt power supply, on board sound.

 

[Plomien]

I would have installed 64 bit windows especially for a gaming rig.
run spybot search and destroy that should pick up any problems