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Ok this is a level 1 distress call to all PC bods, gurus and techies out there that read these forums...
I know a guy, lets call him "Bob" thats has terrible issues running planetside.
Bobs Pc will crash to desktop randomly while playing planetside, anywhere between 5 minutes and 30 minutes....
now i was talking to Bob and i told him its not going to be an OS problem, hes tried 98se, ME and is currently on 2ksp3..
now Bobs also tried direct X 8.1 and 9.0a
Bobs ASUS GF4200 has used default out the box drivers and latest dets from Nvidia...
Bob also has 512mb of 133mhz ram on a SIS chipset based mobo running a XP1600 cpu (this mobo has onboard LAN, SOUND, and AGP)
Bob is aware that his ram is a bit slow for a 266mhz fsb cpu but it worked fine with daoc.
Bob has also made sure the AGP>CPU bridge gart drivers were also installed.
Now technically theres nothing physically wrong bewteen software and hardware, its not the greatest equipment but should be ample to run PS.
Ok, ive run out of advice for Bob, and he is losing patientence formatting his machine multiple times with various combinations of the O/S, DX, and GFX drivers.
My last conclusins, are a Thermal or PSU issue.
I personaly have had problems with random crashes but mine manifested as a reset to boot screen never a drop to windows, i fixed this by upping agp voltage a touch (this was when upgrading from gf3 > gf4) and getting a very nice new PSU. ive never crashed since,
im thinking bobs generic shitty PSU and case bundle maybe having some promblems supplying the juice to a greedy AMD XP 1600 and a big fat GF4. But ive never seen this casuing a drop to desktop, where everything else just carrys on like normal...
HEAT issue? could the CPU GF4 simply become too hot and just crash out back to desktop, is this a possibility?
If anyone has had any experiance of this and can recomend a soloution, which dosnt require spending too much money id greatly appreciate it. This very system runs DAoC quite well, but crashes on PS..................
if u need more specific info dont be afraid to ask
(ps. im not bob )
I know a guy, lets call him "Bob" thats has terrible issues running planetside.
Bobs Pc will crash to desktop randomly while playing planetside, anywhere between 5 minutes and 30 minutes....
now i was talking to Bob and i told him its not going to be an OS problem, hes tried 98se, ME and is currently on 2ksp3..
now Bobs also tried direct X 8.1 and 9.0a
Bobs ASUS GF4200 has used default out the box drivers and latest dets from Nvidia...
Bob also has 512mb of 133mhz ram on a SIS chipset based mobo running a XP1600 cpu (this mobo has onboard LAN, SOUND, and AGP)
Bob is aware that his ram is a bit slow for a 266mhz fsb cpu but it worked fine with daoc.
Bob has also made sure the AGP>CPU bridge gart drivers were also installed.
Now technically theres nothing physically wrong bewteen software and hardware, its not the greatest equipment but should be ample to run PS.
Ok, ive run out of advice for Bob, and he is losing patientence formatting his machine multiple times with various combinations of the O/S, DX, and GFX drivers.
My last conclusins, are a Thermal or PSU issue.
I personaly have had problems with random crashes but mine manifested as a reset to boot screen never a drop to windows, i fixed this by upping agp voltage a touch (this was when upgrading from gf3 > gf4) and getting a very nice new PSU. ive never crashed since,
im thinking bobs generic shitty PSU and case bundle maybe having some promblems supplying the juice to a greedy AMD XP 1600 and a big fat GF4. But ive never seen this casuing a drop to desktop, where everything else just carrys on like normal...
HEAT issue? could the CPU GF4 simply become too hot and just crash out back to desktop, is this a possibility?
If anyone has had any experiance of this and can recomend a soloution, which dosnt require spending too much money id greatly appreciate it. This very system runs DAoC quite well, but crashes on PS..................
if u need more specific info dont be afraid to ask
(ps. im not bob )