After a load of checks today, I found every game I own runs fine on this PC with the latest graphics drivers for my card, except SH4. SH3 runs fine except for the .wmv intro, but I bypassed it.
The power problem seems to have gone after I took the PSU out and gave it a damned good cleaning. The fans sound like they running fine again.
The .wmv problem seems to be a problem to do with certain older nVidia cards and the new drivers when used in connection with certain motherboards. I had a friend come by and do some checks on my graphics RAM (some software he used, don't know what) and it says there doesn't appear to be anything physically wrong with my graphics card. He did mention something for checking system RAM, but I can't recall the name. Any ideas?
One final note: I have noticed that my soundcard (SB Audigy) occasionally sets itself to basic acceleration. So it would appear that I have some sort of hardware issue going on somewhere.
I don't think there's much actually physically wrong with my PC. It just doesn't seem to like SH4 on newer drivers for some reason.
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