Custom Built Computer Freezing... Suggestions?

Hi Austin. The giveaway is the slowing down part. What that tells me is that the game is hogging all your RAM. You need to add a couple of gigs of RAM to free things up. That is what the problem is. When the computer freezes, it is telling you, it has no more RAM room left. The game, obviously is very memory leaky...what this means is, that code that the game is built upon is not freeing up RAM. This is usually the case with poorly written C++ code. So blame the game manufacturer for having poor code, that is the problem Austin. Adding a couple of Gigs of RAM should do the trick for you. SInce you are using 64 bit Vista, you can have up to 16 gigs of addressable RAM, although your motherboard may be limited to 8 gigs, so check your mobo manual out and decide to either get new RAM or more RAM if you can add it.