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| Thread ID: 56623 | 2005-04-10 21:34:00 | windows crashiing (surprise, surprise) while playing games | kiwibits (5574) | Press F1 |
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| 343456 | 2005-04-10 21:34:00 | Hi all, while i am playing doom 3 and unreal 2004 the games crash, sometimes rebooting the whole system, sometimes just losing the game. If I am prosessing a video file (placing big stress on the system) everything is fine. I have a new NVIDIA 6600 GT card but it used to happen on my old 5600 card too. I run XP pro and the computer is AMD2800+ with 512 of ram. I have used 2 different programs to 'stress test' the system and it checks out ok. Any ideas. | kiwibits (5574) | ||
| 343457 | 2005-04-10 22:02:00 | Have you tried running memtest on your system. I had the same problem with my system... random crashes, especially during games. I ran memtest and discovered one of my 512MB modules was VERY FAULTY. I have been running my system with just 512MB now and I haven't had any problems. Games run fine and no other system crashes. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 343458 | 2005-04-10 22:21:00 | I ran mentest for about 3 hours with no errors. :( | kiwibits (5574) | ||
| 343459 | 2005-04-10 22:30:00 | Look in event viewer, see what that says. Are you using the latest official Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia site? And directx 9.0c? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 343460 | 2005-04-11 02:21:00 | Have you checked out the games' websites to see whether similar problems have been reported or patches issued? | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 343461 | 2005-04-11 02:56:00 | What OS, any error messages? | Murray P (44) | ||
| 343462 | 2005-04-11 03:03:00 | What OS, any error messages? I run XP pro and the computer is AMD2800+ with 512 of ram. :D |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 343463 | 2005-04-11 03:07:00 | I run XP pro and the computer is AMD2800+ with 512 of ram. :D Speedy = kiwibits? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 343464 | 2005-04-11 03:10:00 | Speedy = kiwibits? Nope. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 343465 | 2005-04-11 03:19:00 | Nope. Absolutely sure ;) |
Murray P (44) | ||
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