Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to see your task manager. Click on Processes tab, check how much Ram the game EXE uses when in operation.
If it has a high Mem usage all the time, that could cause overheating. if it doesn't, I doubt that's the problem.
Okie doke then it's probably not overheating, if it's only using 380 MB of 4000 MB of RAM.
Sorry this is an example of why you don't ask for computer advice on The Escapist.
By what measure does the RAM usage indicate that overheating is an issue?
Excessive RAM usage will require the CPU to access the HD (cache) and move data about more often.
The CPU will never overheat as a result of having to move data from RAM to HD and vice versa, in fact DMA access means that the CPU will barely be used in most modern PCs for this rather simple task and even if the CPU did have to do this it is a task of such awesome simplicity it will not task the CPU in the slightest.
Excessive RAM usage may cause the RAM to heat up more however RAM overheating has never been ever proven as the cause of... well anything. The over clocking community is still undecided as to weather RAM heat sinks are even worth having
Finally I have never ever heard of a PC shutting down due to an overheating HD, oh yeah it will shut down when the heat finally kills the HD but that's a totally different story.
So, uh, back to the original question of, what the hell you talking about fool?
As for the OPs problem, yeah overheating, buy an under laptop cooler, problem solved.
My computer now doesn't like to display any images the first time I turn it on. It usually takes me 3-5 times of turning it on and off to get an image, sometimes more sometimes less.
Your computer's power supply is dying. A PC goes through a series of system component power ups at start. Usually Motherboard CPU, RAM, GPU and then HD access. The GPU is the biggest power draw so a dodgy PSU may be able to power up the motherboard, CPU and RAM and then fall over at the point the GPU starts to draw power. By turning it off and on what happens is the PSU no longer has to provide as much power to the CPU, RAM and Motherboard because Motherboards retain a good amount of power in them even when the PSU is turned off. The same is true for the GPU, in fact anything that has capacitors on them can retain a huge amount of power even after power has stopped being provided to them.
Each time you cycle the power on and off you are slowly but surely topping up the power 'reserves' in these capacitors until you reach a point at which the dodgy PSU no longer has to provide that huge initial power up jolt to get the GPU through the POST.
When I do get on my computer, it says "hpqmiewx has stopped working" and whenever I check for solutions, it tells me I have to buy a whole new part for my computer. My dad says it's a scam and that my computer just has a virus or virus's. But whenever I use Spy Check or CC Cleaner, it says I don't have any virus's. What's my problem?
hpqmiewx is an .exe and is assocaited with HPs own security protection software and will have stopped working because
a). It is no longer on your PC and your computer is being told to load it at boot but can't find it
b). When your brother pulled the power supply during some work he probably caused a disc crash, what happens when the disc head loses power and crashes in to the surface of the disc, this can cause data corruption (as you saw when your computer started BSOD.)
For the life of me I can't imagine what HP Security Protection does, probably another piece of useless tat installed to make the idiot masses think their PC is safe. Anyway, type msconfig in to the run box in the start menu, on the window that opens select 'startup' scroll through the list of programs till you find one that either lists the file that gives you the error message or a file that has a description about being HP Security Protection and untick the box, then reboot.
