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[Brielriel]

Just bought the game DAOU off Steam and it crashes the whole PC after 10 minutes of play.  I have no problem like this with similar games.  PC shuts down completely and have to restart it and the game.

DAOU
Steam
1.04

AMD X2 Dual Core 4800+
2GB Ram
Nvidia 8800 Ultra 512mb, Driver 275.33
SB Live 24 bit
Windows XP 32bit regular

Solutions tried:
Lowered graphics
Force stereo headphones option
DEP change
turning off av

Modifié par Brielriel, 08 juillet 2011 - 01:17 .

[Thandal N'Lyman]

I'd try rolling-back your video driver to the previous nVidia version.

[Gorath Alpha]

As old as that card is now, probably much farther back than that would be even better.

[Brielriel]

It seems to crash at regular intervals no matter what is on screen. Think it could be a problem with the web service/achievement authentication thing?

I'll try the driver rollback also.  Any specific drivers would be the best?

Modifié par Brielriel, 08 juillet 2011 - 01:27 .

[Gorath Alpha]

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[Brielriel]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

197.45

Tried it with this driver.  Still crashed and shut down my pc.

[Gorath Alpha]

No. No software ever "shuts down any PC", can't happen. Only bad hardware does that. You haven't reported anything so far about HEAT, but if it's not the PSU, it's more likely overheated.  A totally uncontrolled reboot is always totally unnecessary. If a BSOD event occurs, a game player needs to know why the event was triggered, and just doesn't allow any automatic reboot. The Blue Screen display includes text describing the event for you to write down and to include with the problem report.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 08 juillet 2011 - 07:10 .

[Brielriel]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

No. No software ever "shuts down any PC", can't happen. A totally uncontrolled reboot is also totally unnecessary. If a BSOD event occurs, a game player needs to know why the event was triggered, and doesn't allow any automatic reboot. The Blue Screen display includes text describing the event for you to write down and to include with the problem report.

I'm not even getting a blue screen or error though.  My PC is completely shutdown to immediate black or off position.

[Gorath Alpha]

Only broken or damaged hardware results in that situation. The software isn't the cause of the symptom. You probably have a bad power supply, but the CPU can also shut things down when the cooler is broken / filled with lint & can't cool any more (although you should be getting all kinds of siren sounds from the system speaker, assuming there is one).

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 08 juillet 2011 - 06:47 .

[sami jo]

The game may be triggering the shutdown while other programs may not because games make heavy continuous use of the hardware. But growth is correct, that is definitely the sign of a hardware malfunction. When you reboot, do you get a "Windows failed to shut down properly" error? You can sometimes get what caused the shutdown at that screen.

[Brielriel]

sami jo wrote...

The game may be triggering the shutdown while other programs may not because games make heavy continuous use of the hardware. But growth is correct, that is definitely the sign of a hardware malfunction. When you reboot, do you get a "Windows failed to shut down properly" error? You can sometimes get what caused the shutdown at that screen.

No, it's definitely particular to this game.  I play other higher demand games with no problems.  Why would one game cause it constantly and others don't at all?

[sami jo]

Possibly because this game puts higher demand on the CPU than most in addition to taxing the graphics card. If your CPU is starting to have heat dissipation issues or your power supply is beginning to fail, this game would trigger the problem more than most.

[Brielriel]

Yeah, it could be heat and all if this is the kind of game that runs hot. Guess I'll break out the cotton swabs and give it a cleaning and see if it helps.

[sami jo]

If it happens again, feel for hotspots (obviously not by actually touching the components, just pass your hand above- end of mom rant). You might also just check to see that all cards/RAM and such are seated correctly. Mine pulled that stunt once because the RAM had wiggled loose.