# Lockups

If you are experiencing lockups and your game ceases to respond follow the appropriate links below.

Locked Up In middle of playing. Game image frozen on screen

Locked Up with a repeating sound

Game appears to be running but is not accepting any input from mouse or keyboard

EA Tech Tip: | A Lockup of any kind is most often related to a conflict between the software and a PC component and/or driver Because there a many different manufactures of video and sound cards, drivers are used to translate data from these devices to the windows operating system. Think of a driver like a translator if you were to visit a foreign country. configuration.