Couple of things.

[JohntheKern]

Well first of all and by far the most annoying. I keep getting seemingly random CTDs and crashes in my games. Examples being NTW, ETW;-DMUC and Fallout 3. Im using Windows 7 (64bit) any ideas?

Secondly, installed Black and White 2 on my new comp, for some reason Im stuck on low to medium graphics. any ideas?

Regards
The Kern

[Awqa Puriq]

Have you updated your drivers? What is your graphic card?

[JohntheKern]

I have indeed, the card is ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB.

[The Dutch Devil]

Well then you could try rolling back the drivers to a previous version.

And how much RAM do you have? And when it crashes could you post the error code here? Or/and you can google it (the error code), because that might give some interesting results.

[JohntheKern]

8gb of Ram.
No error messages, the games freeze and I have to start task manager to get out of them. Thought it was the old drivers at first, however its still happening on the new ones.

[Awqa Puriq]

I doubt it's a be install since most of your games seem to have that problem. Have you tried compatibility just in case?

[mrcrusty]

How old is your hard drive/when did you last defrag it?

[JohntheKern]

@ Awqa Puriq: No, its worth a shot though.
@Mr Crusty: Its a new computer, had it for just over a week. Defrag not required.
It seems to happen between 45mins and 1hour into playing a game, which is especially annoying as its about then I really start to loose myself in the game.

[Freddie]

@ Awqa Puriq: No, its worth a shot though.
@Mr Crusty: Its a new computer, had it for just over a week. Defrag not required.
It seems to happen between 45mins and 1hour into playing a game, which is especially annoying as its about then I really start to loose myself in the game.

Sounds like a heat issue to me. You might want to download speedfan or Realtemp to find out your CPU's temperatures.

[Taiji]

You probably installed the latest ati drivers and that is the problem - they're .

Download and use ati's 10.2 drivers, problem solved (if you can work out how to get them installed).

Good luck

How old is your hard drive/when did you last defrag it?

Sorry, no offence intended but I loled.

[mrcrusty]

Sorry, no offence intended but I loled.

Lol I know it sounds random, but it actually happened to me a few years back, my games would suddenly CTD & crash and other times would be really laggy as well as other crap happening in windows. At first I thought it was just the display drivers, but it turned out the HDD was on the verge of dying.

[JohntheKern]

Seems that the compatability trick has worked. I've not tested it totally. I did manage to play Fallout 3 for a good hour and a half with no issues (Isnt Ultra high just wonderfull )
Will try "testing" properly tomorrow.
Now, Black and White 2: Ive done a bit of digging, things involving the graphics.config file. Gave editing that a go, all well and good except I could not save the changes "access denied". Any hope for playing this on ultra high?

[Awqa Puriq]

Good to hear about so far going good.

Try saving the file to your desktop instead and then moving and replacing it with the original. It's a little way to get around it, works for me every time, good luck Make sure you have administrator rights first otherwise you can't edit the files.