Gaming problems

[Glenn]

Are the motherboard chipset drivers up to date?

[dysonco]

Think I might know what could be the cause.

If you use Xfire with COD4 it doesn't like running at the same time as any games for window game like Bioshock.

I've have similar issues with COD4 and Flatout Ultimate carnage.  As long as Xfire isn't running Flatout is fine.

I think they are both trying to connect to the same dll file or something.

If that doesn't help, its worth disabling your firewall and anti virus for a test to see if that solves the problem.  I've had issues beofre where its turned out to be the firewall, once I'd tracked the issue down to being zone alarm, it was pretty straight forward to fix.

[Barndog]

Dont know what has happened but alls well now, it seems it might have been the zone alarm firewall, i have it removed now and am just using windows firewall, been running great but do you recommended windows to be safe enough to use?

[Steve]

Should be fairly safe using Windows firewall if behind a router.

[Myst]

Xfire should work ok with CoD - i have it running as a rule when i play with no problems

[dysonco]

Its not Xfire and COD4 thats the problem they work well together, but Xfire and any "games for windows" titles such as bioshock.

I just thought that as he mentioned playing COD4 and Bioshock, its quite likely he used Xfire with COD4 and might have left that running when he tried to launch bioshock.  I had a few problems with that myself until I realised what was the cause.

[Myst]

Ah, picked you up wrong