howard_hopkinso said:
Can you explain what you mean by game crashes? As many details as possible, will help us to help you.
Regards Howard
Half life 2 crashes to desktop all the time (sometimes with the message about "memory could not be read"), Stalker too (sometimes with the bug-delivery message about an illegal operation - the game's own x3da error screen), crashes 75% of the time when I render with Lightwave. Rarely blue screens - with games, I'm playing one minute, then a stutter, then I'm on the desktop.
I close as many background applications as I can, all the games are patched (and have tweak applied re crashes - ie, added "-noprefetch" to Stalker).
It was fine until recently. I've added new memory but it's made no difference. Tried different drivers, taken off all the overclocking. Removed all spyware.
As the last poster said, the computer is getting old, so maybe it's just packing in. Shame since it still runs pretty much any game I want it too as long as I'm not too ambitious with the settings.
regards,
g.
I've recently added the Java run time environment, and Microsoft Network framework - would that have anything to do with it. I also run norton - I know everyone hates it, but I've had it for ages and it's never caused trouble with games.
If anyone's got any ideas I'd be grateful,
regards,
g