Help With Gaming Issue

[Blankie440]

Hey all, I recently had my MSI 660ti PE die on me and am in the process of getting a replacement through RMA. For the time being I installed my old 8800GTS 640MB card in my system for slightly better performance over my integrated on my I5-3570K. Just today I went to play D3 and it won't even load the game. It gives me the "Diablo III Retail has stopped working" message and a grey screen. I then tried other games I have through Steam and they do the exact same thing. I thought it could be a driver issue so I updated my VGA driver as well as my audio driver. No luck there. I only installed the driver for my Corsair Vengeance 1500 headset since the last time I played any games, which was last night. I uninstalled that just to make sure it wasn't the issue, and it wasn't. I also ran Win 7 in safe mode and did a full scan for viruses/spyware and found nothing.

Anyone have any ideas on what I can do next?

My system:

I5-3570K, ASRock Z77 Extreme 4, MSI GTX 660ti PE (currently 8800GTS), 16GB G.Skill DDR3 1600, Antec 1100 case, Zalman CNPS 9900 Max (Blue), 256GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD, 9TB Total of Storage, Asus VG278H 3D/120Hz monitor.

[Dave :)]

If you remove the card and use the igpu will that open the game?

[Blankie440]

I'll try it now and let you know.

[Blankie440]

I took out the 8800GTS, uninstalled the nvidia drivers, installed the intel VGA drivers and still can't play any games. Does the same exact thing.

[Dave :)]

Do you, by any chance, have MSI afterburner running? Some people have said that closing this program down allows the games to open. It's a fairly long shot and i don't know why it would cause it, but it's still worth a go. Have you changed anything in the registry / run CCleaner recently?

[Blankie440]

Thanks for suggesting closing Afterburner. I did that and it finally let me in. What a pain that has been today. I wonder if it will work with my 8800GTS again as well? Thanks again!

[Dave :)]

Thanks for suggesting closing Afterburner. I did that and it finally let me in. What a pain that has been today. I wonder if it will work with my 8800GTS again as well? Thanks again!

Wa-hey! Glad it's somewhat working :). Fingers are crossed that the 8800GTS works!

[TechFan@ic]

Do you' date=' by any chance, have MSI afterburner running? Some people have said that closing this program down allows the games to open. It's a fairly long shot and i don't know why it would cause it, but it's still worth a go. Have you changed anything in the registry / run CCleaner recently?[/quote']

This is astonishing lol !, does it only happen with older Nvidia cards ?

I've never heard of this before, you learn something everyday ^_^ !

[Dave :)]

Do you' date=' by any chance, have MSI afterburner running? Some people have said that closing this program down allows the games to open. It's a fairly long shot and i don't know why it would cause it, but it's still worth a go. Have you changed anything in the registry / run CCleaner recently?[/quote'] This is astonishing lol !, does it only happen with older Nvidia cards ? I've never heard of this before, you learn something everyday ^_^ !

I only thought of if due to a previous post on a different forum i read ages ago. I'm not sure; i assume it can happen to any card. I've never had issues running Afterburner, so don't really know. :S

[Blankie440]

Well I know it wasn't on the top of my list to check Afterburner to fix the issue. I haven't installed the 8800GTS again yet, though I did get about 2 hours of gaming in on D3. So all is well again.

[mvitkun]

Do you' date=' by any chance, have MSI afterburner running? Some people have said that closing this program down allows the games to open. It's a fairly long shot and i don't know why it would cause it, but it's still worth a go. Have you changed anything in the registry / run CCleaner recently?[/quote']

This is astonishing lol !, does it only happen with older Nvidia cards ?

I've never heard of this before, you learn something everyday ^_^ !

it's not afterburner itself,typically it's the on screen display server.

the game sees it as a hack (more or less) and prevents it from opening

[Dave :)]

Good job :D

[Blankie440]

Do you' date=' by any chance, have MSI afterburner running? Some people have said that closing this program down allows the games to open. It's a fairly long shot and i don't know why it would cause it, but it's still worth a go. Have you changed anything in the registry / run CCleaner recently?[/quote']

This is astonishing lol !, does it only happen with older Nvidia cards ?

I've never heard of this before, you learn something everyday ^_^ !

I'll remember that if I have a similar issue again.