Hiya all,
I don't know what an access violation is, but this game crashes every 5-10 minutes because of an access violation with *some file.dll*
It really is getting unplayable.
In addition, my I have rarely had any problems with my computer, however since I installed Vampire, it now crashes regularly. I eventually reformatted, but it doesn't seem to have helped. I have the latest patch.
same problem here.sometime i can play up to 1 Hour and nothing happens.
but very often it crashes, and throws me back to the desktop after 5-10 Minutes without any warnings.and in the Bloodlines folder is a crash report
where it tolds me that this was an Access violation.
i dont know what this means either.
but think its a bug from the Game, BECAUSE i just bought Half Life 2.
and HL2 is Stable, and never crashed to Desktop unlike Bloodlines. but its the same Engine, so the Problem IS the Game.
I also have other activision games installed - Civilisation CTP and Rome Total War. Funnily enough, RTW is also a CTD game - the structure of the games appears to involve a lot of discrete episodes which need to load and in RTW when I switch between modes - map mode and battle mode, there is often a CTD. Sometimes with RTW and VTBM the computer crashes entirely due to media lock-ups. with a decent spec system, updated drivers and a 256Mb video card being run with the detail lowered to run at moderate - that really should not be happening.
Activision have shipped two games with excellent game-play yet fragile playing environments.
I think Hidden & Dangerous 2 and Thief III both require similar effort by the machine, yet they do not crash with anything like the regularity. Activision need to get their act together IMO.
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Most likely, random errors like that may be due to CPU overloads. I also had an the error message both of you received. It would be wise to check your CPU outputs. When at your desktop, hit ctrl, alt, delete. Then check to see what your current CPU output it. It may fluctuate as programs need to be ran more or less, but look for an average rating. 100 means that the CPu is working its tail off. 0 means that is it tanning on the beach and doing nothing, lol. By eliminating some of the unneccesarry running programs, that leaves more CPU availability for larger programs like pc games. I would only reccommend canceling the programs that are running under your username. The other ones like System, should stay. By ending some of those processes, there may be a chance that your games will run and not crash. Give it a try. It worked for me.......
You think this may be due to a CPU overload - I am guessing that this would not be related to a lack of memory ? I have 512MB of memory, and am thinking of doubling it - might this help?
Never had the problem...doubling the memory might help, but as it sounds like a software problem with the file.dll, it might not be enough....maybe you got a damaged copy of Vampire. Is it the english original version, or another language version. I had problemes of another kind with my german version, but when I installed the english language version it worked perfect.
It might help too if you could state what kind of cpu, graphic/video card and OS you are using....
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I already have 1Gb RAM, so memory is not the answer.
I must say that stripping the number of running progs is a good idea - to my shame, I cannot find the place in XP home that allows you to specify which programmes run on start-up - in the old days, the .BAT file was a good place to start, but windows so helpfully hides files from time to time - I often delete directories that should be empty but which windows says have got a non-zero file size. for example, it hides the thumbnails db file which with multiple image files can be a fair size.
I am not happy with the degree of autopilot that windows xp has - it is excessively resource-hungry and does things few sane people want it to do.
bleat bleat - who wants a file called 'my documents'? who else's documents are they going to be? and another thing...
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[QUOTE=Celacena]I am not happy with the degree of autopilot that windows xp has - it is excessively resource-hungry and does things few sane people want it to do. [/QUOTE]
There are ways to cut back on this. Right click My Computer. Click the Advanced Tab, then Settings under Performance. Choose the Adjust for Best Performance radial button, or simply remove many of the checks from the boxes, below.
You can also go into the Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, then Services. There are several services that XP runs automatically that can be put on manual (as required by the user) or disabled altogether, but try to find a good FAQ about what you can safetly turn off being doing this--it's too easy to get screwed, here. You can also save different Services configurations--I have one for regular performance, and one for games.
Both of these (but especially the second) methods will return resources to XP for your use.
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