My Monitor Keeps Turning off In The Middle Of A Game

[pcktwtch]

When i play GTA IV Or Just Cause 2 about 20 minutes in the screen turns off ( PC remains on) and if i move the mouse the screen comes back on, But it crashes my game. I've turned the power plan options so that they say " Switch Display off - Never" and i even changted the advanced power options. My PC only started doing this today and it sucks! , Please Help!!

 

[johnb35]

The first thing I would do is do a system restore back to yesterday or day before and see if it still does it.

 

[pcktwtch]

Good Plan... Except i dont have any restore points :'(

 

[johnb35]

System restore even turned on? It should be creating restore points at least once a day or so, or at least every few days.

 

[pcktwtch]

It must not be then. How do i turn it on, for future reference ?

 

[johnb35]

What operating system are you running?

 

[pcktwtch]

Windows 7 64 bit

 

[johnb35]

Right click on "computer" in start menu or desktop depending on how you have it setup and click on properties, click on system protection on the left. You should be on the system protection tab. If you only have one drive(possible 2 partitions if you have an oem computer) then make sure each one is turned on. Highlight your main drive, usually C and click on the configure button. Set usage to only 5 percent.

 

[pcktwtch]

Yeah i got it working thanks , now back to my problem...

 

[pcktwtch]

any other suggestions?

 

[Shane]

Has it only recently started doing this?

 

[pcktwtch]

Has it only recently started doing this?

Hi i fixed the problem. It turned out that the driver of my video card was crashing and rebootin, so i installed the latest driver and it seems to have worked