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Topic: UQM crashes my pc. And hard! What seems to be the problem? (Read 2718 times)
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Stinkfinger
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Star Control II is one of my all time favorites, so when I found UQM the other day I was giddy. Until I tried to run the game that is. It runs fine for about 3 minutes then invariably the sound stutters, a bsod flashes and my pc restarts. That's what I call a hard crash.
What could be causing this? I thought it might have to do with some of the settings I was using, but I figured that if any of the settings were incompatible with my machine the setting in question (eg: sound) wouldn't function at all. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000, a gig of RAM and a Radeon X800 XL.
What could be causing this?
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Novus
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Can you provide any details on the BSOD? As it's restarting by itself, I assume you're running XP. Anyway, a BSOD is an indication that something is wrong with the operating system or a driver used by it (and XP is actually quite stable by itself), so I'd start checking the drivers used by your system. Video drivers, in particular, are very complex beasts, so I'd strongly suggest upgrading to ATI's latest display driver version. The BSOD text should give some clue as to where the error occurred.
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MasterNinja
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To be able to read the message of the BSOD, you have to do this:
Go to System properties (fastest by right-clicking on "My computer" and selecting "properties"). There you choose "Advanced". Click on the "settings" button for "Startup and recovery". Deactivate the option, which causes an automated reboot on system errors and click OK.
When you experience a "hard crash" the next time, the PC won't reboot anymore and you can read, what the BSOD says. Use Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot the system, when you are done reading/taking notes.
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Todd
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Can you provide any details on the BSOD? As it's restarting by itself, I assume you're running XP. Anyway, a BSOD is an indication that something is wrong with the operating system or a driver used by it (and XP is actually quite stable by itself), so I'd start checking the drivers used by your system. Video drivers, in particular, are very complex beasts, so I'd strongly suggest upgrading to ATI's latest display driver version. The BSOD text should give some clue as to where the error occurred.
Actually my pc is quite stable otherwise. In almost a year of constant use UQM is the only program I've run into that's caused these problems. All of my drivers are up to date and everything else runs tip top. As far as the BSOD goes, its not your typical BSOD. All that happens is that the screen flashes blue (in that familiar BSOD low resolution) and the pc restarts. No text, no nothing, just a restart. Now what?
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JonoPorter
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I would also check for viruses and the like or third party services.
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Stinkfinger
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Still nothing. I have no viruses or anything like that. The game just doesn't seem to like my pc. That makes me very very sad! Any other ideas gang?
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