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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: ooseven on June 30, 2003, 01:47:06 AM

Title: PC help...games crashing and reutning to wondows as if the game was never run.
Post by: ooseven on June 30, 2003, 01:47:06 AM

ok this happens to me every now and then, what happens is i play a gam (say Black & white or systme shock 2) and everything is fine.

then totaly out of the blue the screen jumps straight back to windows with out any warning.

No error

No Warning this programme has ... message.

i have scanned for viruses and nothing.

Although i can\'t rmember what version of Direct X i have, all hardware seams to be ok.


anyway Idea\'s on whats going wrong ?

oh and another thing is i have never had a crash like this with morrowind so its just some games.

Title: PC help...games crashing and reutning to wondows as if the game was never run.
Post by: Tyrant on June 30, 2003, 02:39:38 AM

update everything, from sound card to mobo to graphics drivers, this should help.

also try lowering the resolution, or turning off FSAA and ANISO (if u got a gf4 card), i had a same problem playing the pro race driver demo @ 1280x1024 with 8x aniso. after turning ANISO off everything was great.

Title: PC help...games crashing and reutning to wondows as if the game was never run.
Post by: Tetrad on June 30, 2003, 01:32:14 PM

Make sure you have the latest patch for the game.Could be a videocard driver problem. Make sure its up to date. I\'ve also had problems where i had to use old drivers. Just experiment.

Also a list of specs would be helpfull.

Title: PC help...games crashing and reutning to wondows as if the game was never run.
Post by: ooseven on July 01, 2003, 03:37:46 AM

oppps :)

sorry my bad

ok (deep breath)

An Athlon 1400+
512 meg Ram
Ge force FX 5200
don\'t knowthe motherboard
100 meg zip drive
scuzy (sp) card with cd writer
CD drive
2X 20 gig HDD
Windows 98



anyway going to update just about every driver tonight

also thinking of up grading to XP.

Title: PC help...games crashing and reutning to wondows as if the game was never run.
Post by: Tetrad on July 01, 2003, 09:46:15 AM

Yeah XP is more stable. But if you don\'t keep your drivers up to date that is most likely the problem.