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Crashing... but only in a certain game.

Ace Modder said:
Did you resolve this in then end?
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Was just coming to post.

It worked okay for about a day, then it started doing it again.

Desperation reached a new high and even though I had just reinstalled it, I tore XP x64 off and put XP x86 back on.

It still does it.

I put Vista x64 on. Still does it.

So that's three complete reformats and it's still doing it. I've been watching temps and it's really not that high - E8400 hitting about 65C on load. X2 is running about 80C on load.

Is there anything, anything at all I haven't tried? :(
 
Tute, I know how you feel as I have more or less the same problem with a game called Codemasters "DiRT", it runs for a couple of minutes, then it freezes to about 1 frame per second, Alt/CTRL/DEL is the only way out, this only happens in Multi car though NEVER in single car mode. This is in Windows XP 32, GTX8800 x 2, latest drivers etc.

However, it *does* work on Vista 64 bit, but Sli won't work on that in this game. So yea, no help to you, but thought you'd like to know you aren't on your own:)

I think problems like this are Memory/Sound related, but could be wrong. Compters hey?

~Ant
 
My powercolor 3870 x2 is having problems too.
It is basically a fan speed issue. The fan doe not increase. But even using rivatuner does not help me much. It still randomly crashes.
 
The temperature doesn't get hot enough though. It's only being reported as 80C, even when fully loaded.

I think it's a Crossfire issue with WoW. I don't see what else it could be. Giving it some thought, it did start around 2.4 going live - my educated guess is that the patch broke something.
 
After talking to a friend of mine who says he had the same problem and that a move to Vista solved it, I cracked out my HP x64 DVD and began installing... again. :o

It installed, then I went to put SP1 on. It just froze during the install. I tried again. Same thing. So I got the redist - and it won't boot, just gets stuck on "configuring updates".

Great.
 
Right, i've got Vista going again.

Here's the crunch - it's started crashing in Vista, with the same symptoms. Sound freezes, then the responsiveness follows a couple of seconds later.

So it must be hardware right?

How come it still passes Orthos/3DM06 stress tests with Vista running then?

*tears clumps of hair out*
 
Tute said:
Right, i've got Vista going again.

Here's the crunch - it's started crashing in Vista, with the same symptoms. Sound freezes, then the responsiveness follows a couple of seconds later.

So it must be hardware right?

How come it still passes Orthos/3DM06 stress tests with Vista running then?

*tears clumps of hair out*
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Have you put everything back to stock voltages and clocks and tried running it then?
 
Sorry about that, thought I read somewhere that you were clocking it. Reminds me of the days of my 9700pro and a VIA kt400 board that used to have major problems and I couldn't work out why. It ended up being huge incompatability issues between the card and the board.

At the time swapped it out for an epox board job done.
 
I think i'll sell the board when I get it back off RMA anyway. I don't use half it's features.
 
Have you tried running it using just one CPU core? while the game is in the back ground "Windows Task manager/Right click game set "Affinity" you should see CPU 0 and CPU 1, try disabling one. I have a quad core, and disabling 2 cores did make the game run "longer" (Colin Mcrae Dirt"), so although still not right, it "improved it somewhat - not that you should have to do this:(


~Ant
 
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