CTD's all the time. Overheating? - Page 2

GreyFox · 2004-02-04, 08:32 PM

I thought I was installing the latest drivers for it... I'll check out that link and see.

Yes I do get great FPS with everything cranked up even.

Loving all 5 minutes of it, really, I do.

Cyanide · 2004-02-04, 08:34 PM

You could always try a format and reinstall. If that doesn't help, then it's most likely a hardware problem.

GreyFox · 2004-02-04, 08:37 PM

Format and reinstall?

I got this computer yesterday, I recently formated it and installed windows!

GreyFox · 2004-02-04, 11:21 PM

Well, I've installed those DNA drivers to the vidcard... but it didn't help...

HATE things like this

Cyanide · 2004-02-04, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by GreyFox

Format and reinstall?

I got this computer yesterday, I recently formated it and installed windows!

Perhaps something went wrong the first time.

It could possibly bad sectors on your hard drive. Could be bad RAM. Could be a motherboard chipset problem. Could be completely software related. It could be any number of things. I'm just trying to help you narrow it down.

I suggest you reinstall windows and then install nothing but DirectX, your drivers, and PlanetSide. If it's still crashing after that, then you've probably got a hardware problem.

Ait'al · 2004-02-05, 12:46 AM

could it be a setting on his Vid card like one of the GL or DX settings making the game disapear? are one or any of the setting incompatible with PS?

556mmJay · 2004-02-05, 07:55 AM

wow, they really need to put a cap on how big someones sig can be.... <cough Ati cough>

Anyhow.. Did you try different vid drivers? ( if someone already suggested that sorry.. i didnt read through all the crap )

there is a cap, but Ait is under it, or he just knows when sigbots does his scans and avoids it. If your sig is a pixle to big or a Bit to large sigbot will delete it

GreyFox · 2004-02-05, 08:32 AM

I tried the latest ones, and the DNA ones...

GreyFox · 2004-02-05, 01:54 PM

Ok, I believe the RAM might be the problem... Gonna check it out as soon as possible.

GreyFox · 2004-02-05, 04:44 PM

Well I removed the RAM's and reconnected them, and I could play an entire game of C&C Generals now.

So it might work now, not sure. Gonna play planetside a while and see.

GreyFox · 2004-02-05, 05:06 PM

NOPE!

Didn't work, crashed pretty early...

Gotta find a windows version of some program like GoldMem...

Cyanide · 2004-02-05, 06:07 PM

Assuming you've got 2 512mb sticks of ram. Try taking out just one at a time and see if it stabalizes. If there is a problem with your ram it's probably only occuring on one of the sticks.

GreyFox · 2004-02-05, 06:13 PM

I'm running a program called MemTest-86 now on the new computer (this is the laptop), and I'm getting alot of "Failing Address" I'm not sure if it's bad or not, but it sounds like it is bad....

It also says Good, Bad, Err-Bits, etc. And under good it says different hex numbers like ffffff etc, and the same under Bad, and the same under Err-Bits. The Failing Address says; (for instance) 0003feda49c - 956.0Mb etc...

EDIT: I've noticed that all the Failed Address is above 512mb though, that might indicate that it's one of the memory-sticks are faulty...

GreyFox · 2004-02-06, 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by Cyanide

Assuming you've got 2 512mb sticks of ram. Try taking out just one at a time and see if it stabalizes. If there is a problem with your ram it's probably only occuring on one of the sticks.

Yeah I know, I'm gonna try it out today.

Sentrosi · 2004-02-06, 01:55 AM

I was having the same problem a week ago and was going to point you in the direction of Memtesters.

Take a stick out, run the test. Run the default one, the other one will take 5 hours to run. If you notice a lot of error messages, you know it's that stick that's bad. Take it out and put the other one back in. Run the test. If there are more error messages, you have two sticks of ram that are bad. Hunt down the person you bought the PC from, wring their neck and ask them why do you put bad ram in my computer.