First off, I know almost nothing about computers, so if you know what has to be done please tell it in language your grandmother will understand. :P

 

So I was playing RuneScape tonight when the game suddenly died. A little message bubble popped up to tell me my video driver had stopped working, and I couldn't re-load RuneScape. Since I'm running on Vista, I know that whenever you have a problem you just restart the machine and it should work fine. That it did, but only for a half hour before the driver died again. After restarting it only lasted another half hour.

 

Three times in all I had to restart for reasons I can't understand. I've installed/removed nothing in the last week, and my computer has been running properly for quite some time now. Has anybody else experienced this? :-k

First off, I know almost nothing about computers, so if you know what has to be done please tell it in language your grandmother will understand. :P

 

So I was playing RuneScape tonight when the game suddenly died. A little message bubble popped up to tell me my video driver had stopped working, and I couldn't re-load RuneScape. Since I'm running on Vista, I know that whenever you have a problem you just restart the machine and it should work fine. That it did, but only for a half hour before the driver died again. After restarting it only lasted another half hour.

 

Three times in all I had to restart for reasons I can't understand. I've installed/removed nothing in the last week, and my computer has been running properly for quite some time now. Has anybody else experienced this? :-k

 

 

 

Sounds like you need to reinstall the video card drivers, I forget how to check what video card you have, so maybe someone else can, I had to do it once when my sound card refuse to work for some reason. :wall:

Reinstalling the drivers might be a good start. What is your video card? Go to Personalize > Display Settings and look what it says for a video card. Than either find the most up to date driver for that card, or just post what card it is here and we can give you a link to the drivers.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, and this is just me thinking, but a couple of questions:

 

 

 

- Does this happen just during runescape, or during any game?

 

- Does it happen if you're just doing general stuff, such as browsing the internet?

 

 

 

 

 

My bet is it's a simple driver issue though.

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- Does this happen just during runescape, or during any game?

 

- Does it happen if you're just doing general stuff, such as browsing the internet?

 

I don't play many games; I generally stick to good old RuneScape.

 

I was able to browse the internet, but the game wouldn't load.

 

 

 

I reinstalled the video drivers (after a long battle with HP's support site ;) ) so I'm hoping that fixed it. Thanks for your help guys!

- Does this happen just during runescape, or during any game?

 

- Does it happen if you're just doing general stuff, such as browsing the internet?

 

I don't play many games; I generally stick to good old RuneScape.

 

I was able to browse the internet, but the game wouldn't load.

 

 

 

I reinstalled the video drivers (after a long battle with HP's support site ;) ) so I'm hoping that fixed it. Thanks for your help guys!

Computer manufacturer and graphics card? I ask because I had the exact problem.

 

 

 

Eh, just saw the HP part, lol.

Computer manufacturer and graphics card? I ask because I had the exact problem.

 

 

 

Eh, just saw the HP part, lol.

 

My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS.