Games Are Crashing

[artmonster4617]

I have an 20" imac G5. Video Games have just rescently begun crahing my computer, even though gameplay had operated normally for several months. A game will Freeze after a couple of minutes of gameplay. After being frozen for a minute, a grey box, that tells me I need to restart my computer, comes up. The computer starts up fine, and all other programs, and the internet run without problems. I ran a hardware check, and there were no errors. What's going on?

Thanks,

Mitch

[mw84]

How much RAM are you running on? what games are you trying to play? Have you recently downloaded any addons/ patches for these games? etc etc

[JetwingX]

Usually i kernel panic occurs when there is hardware failure (if you have installed anything recently {RAM, Ariport Card, etc.} make sure it is in it's slot snugly) another thing i would suggest is unplug any firewire/usb devices and see if that makes a difference.

if that isn't it, check for software updates

and finally if THAT isn't it, take it to an apple store to get it looked at

[artmonster4617]

Thanks for the responses, guys. here is some more info:
512 MB DDR SDRAM
I am trying to run Star Wars Battlefront, and Knights of the Old Republic.
Battlefront crashes within a minute, and KOTOR crashes within about 10 minutes.
I downloaded a BATTLEFRONT patch rescently, but I ran the game perfectly for a couple of weeks with the patch.
I haven't installed any hardware lately.
All software is up to date.
I will give the unplugging USB/Firewires a shot and see what happens.

Thanks.

anyone else have any other suggestions?

[Damrod]

Have you tried running the games on a fresh newly created user account? Maybe something is broke with your account. Had that problem in the past