Game crashes and Pc reboots sometimes when feeding

Willg · Post by **Willg** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:56 pm

Most of the times it happens while fighting and if i try feeding in the combat. I've downloaded patch 1.2 (the official). Do you know why this could happen?
Thanks in advance.

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:33 pm

My game crashes sometimes when too much happens at once. I think its because my graphics chip just can't cope with it all every now and then. Which graphics card are you using and are the drivers up to date?

Jhereg · Post by **Jhereg** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:10 pm

Willg wrote:Most of the times it happens while fighting and if i try feeding in the combat. I've downloaded patch 1.2 (the official). Do you know why this could happen?
Thanks in advance.

Not to put down Mr. Sir's commentary, which is typically very good, but I have the same thing, sometimes. My old PC would do the crash Mr. Sir speaks of - too many things happening at once, graphic chip overloads, computer pukes over the railing from motion sickness, yadda-yadda-yadda. Hit it with some Scopolamine, start 'er up, and off you go. Nothing for it but a better card or a lesser game.

I, too, am at 1.2 official. My new computer is designed and built specifically for intensive graphic operations. I have lots of memory, a pretty darned good graphics card, and loads of disk space. This puppy was built for video editing, OK? Not weak on the graphics by one tiny bit.

But I get the same thing sometimes. I get it when feeding, and not necessarily during combat. Sneak up, jump on their neck, get half-way to draining them dry, and poof I'm in the Power-On Self-Test. Aside from some weirdness in my graphics card (which is far more than merely possible), the only other majorly different thing is that this computer has an Athlon 64, and my last one was a pure-blood Pentium. I haven't figured it out yet, but as soon as I get a finger on it, I'll be sure to let everybody know.

I always figured it was because of my programming. I BSOD my computers like five times a week, and I've got four, so that's like 20 times a week. That's all but unheard of, but I like to hurt them

and I'm very good at it. To force an XP to the POST should require an assembly "jmp 0x00000000" instruction. That will force it into the power-on bootstrap, which will force a power-on reset. The problem being that the OS won't normally allow you to execute that instruction unless the computer is somehow running in Administrative mode and in extreme imminent danger, or there's a bug somewhere. My money's on a bug somewhere, and I'm betting on the graphic drivers.

I put that one on the back-burner, because I figured it was just me. As it apparrently is not, I'll start digging around.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:22 pm

Willg wrote:Most of the times it happens while fighting and if i try feeding in the combat. I've downloaded patch 1.2 (the official). Do you know why this could happen?

This is the first time I've heard of this glitch in a Source-powered game. This type of glitch always happen to me on certain games I play and I managed to solve it through lowering the Direct X sound acceleration. Mostly works for me on games with this kind of problem.

And as what mr_sir had mentioned, it could possibly be related to the graphics card as well.

haydox · Post by **haydox** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:12 am

My computer crashed and re-booted on me a while ago on loads of games.

Although, admitidly this was because my cheap PSU surged and fried about half my RAM, damaged my CPU and my mobo! Could be worth checking everything if running at full capacity though...there are loads of programs which can do this for you.