Not in this case DAB, I've loaded games like FEAR and Oblivion on drives far more fragmented than the drive these two games are on and none of them 'froze' for 20-30 seconds.
These games worked fine when I had my ATI card with my other mobo and the retail EXE's and all the patches, the EAW v1.05 and FoC v1.1 cracks never worked on my previous system but the original patches did and none of them froze!
So, I've just reinstalled EAW on another drive, one I just defragged, and ran it straight with no patches, all the ships in the background froze on the menu screen after a few seconds of it appearing then 'stuck' for 20 seconds before the ships started flying again! No disk activity was happening at the time it froze and when it unfroze!
Think it must be a system or nvidia driver problem? I disabled AVG antivirus beforehand so it wasn't the AV causing the freeze! I also uninstalled the BETA 162.18's I was running and installed the official WHQL 94.24 drivers (except my card was not WHQL when I installed them?) and it did the same with those?
F00king weird sh1t this
