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BC Forums => BC Technical Support => Solved Problems => Topic started by: ChronowerX_GT on December 21, 2007, 10:49:59 AM
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Hi, when I play BC my computer just seems to crash. It doesn't do it straight away but normally does it after 10-20mins. The screenshot says more about it than I can. Can anybody help??? :(
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It sounds like something more serious than just BC.
Does your PC feel hot?
Do other games have the same problems?
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Looks like a hardware fault.
Does this only happen with BC, have you got any other unexpected behaviour with other games or just in windows itself?
What OS ver are you running.
Edit: Simultaneous post, sorry Mleo. lol
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So far it's only happened when i'm playing BC. I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2. The computer is always a bit hot due to insufficient cooling but it's still withing the recommended temp. and I should be getting some new fans for it soon. I haven't really played much other games recently but the one other game I did play worked fine. I've been running the computer for about 3-4 hours today (no games) and it's been perfect even as i'm encoding video, listining to music and browsing the web at the same time. My hardware is pretty new. I think all the major components are less than a year old.
Specs: Intel Pentium D 2.66Ghz, 2gb DDR2, 500gb Seagate HDD Sata, ATI Radeon X850Xt Pci-E, AsRock Dual VSTA Quad Core Motherboard.
Thanks for your help :D
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judging by your specs, I'll aim to you HD.
I had a seagate disk and they really suck. if you push them hard, they just lock up.
I suggest you get a new one ASAP, before the problem gets bigger.
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That was the first thing i suspected but i've just been playing a game (Flatout 2) for about 2 hours and the whole game is stored on the HDD and it played fine. Do you thing reinstalling BC would do the trick?
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Did you install the patch when you first installed BC?
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That was the first thing i suspected but i've just been playing a game (Flatout 2) for about 2 hours and the whole game is stored on the HDD and it played fine. Do you thing reinstalling BC would do the trick?
I don't really know.
I had half-life, BC and Medieval (three big performance eaters) and sometimes it ran fine for hours, others just for a couple of minutes.
I think it gets stuck if you move big amounts of data at once.
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I didn't install the patch when I installed BC. I just installed the KM 1.0. I going to reinstall BC. I'll let you all know what happens. :D
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just keep in mind - in the KM readme, it says to install BC, install BC's 1.1 patch, and then install KM1.0...
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You need a new hard drive.
I had the almost exact same problem at work (someone installed Oblivion on the engine parts computer) and after about 10mins of playing, the blue screen of death showed up. I had a look at the harddrive itself. Aside from the fact that it smelt like melted cheese in the computer, there was a huge scorch mark on the disk part.
We lost 52gbs of data that day. :(
Change your harddrive. Its faulty.
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Any new particular drivers installed lately?
Any BIOS configuration changes?
Any changes at all to the system?
Any new hardware added recently?
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Well i'm happy to say that I reinstalled BC and it's running perfectly. Thanks alot for your help. It seemed to be just that one instillation was a bit dodgy. :D
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Get a additional hard drive. Just in case.
And more space is always handy. :D
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I've got a spare 80gb HDD so i'll think i'll back up all my music to that for now. The other stuff isn't that important and can be downloaded/installed again.