fraser

turns out its the gpu i started up in safe mode and started the game no black screen but a message popped up saying the graphics card cant handle it basicly now thinking back this didnt happen till i downloaded updates for the particular game so it handled it before but cant after the updates..ill look at hooking up an external graphics card

well the memory diagnostic came back no problems detected ill try taking one of the modules out now

hi thanks ill give that a go RAM is 4.00 gb

i have an acer aspire 6530g running on windows7 when i try to play a game the game starts then my screen goes black the computer is still on but i cant do anything as the screen turns completely black,this doesnt happen if i watch a movie on dvd or online only when i try to play a game anyone have any clues thanks