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Slinx
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Post by Slinx »

In the middle of the last two games I've tried to play online, my computer suddenly resets.

Any clue about this?

Doesn't reset any other time on its own.
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Post by Eddaweaver »

There're many possible reasons for this but the most likely thing is that your CPU is overheating and causing the computer to reboot. Is the heatsink full of dust?
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Post by Slinx »

I'll check up on that, see how it works. Reinstalled Myth and tried it earlier in a single player game with no problems.
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Blue screen of death and reset ?
Sound bad 2 me. I had some problem for some time and then... my RAM died.
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Post by Pyro »

Tireces wrote:Blue screen of death and reset ?
Sound bad 2 me. I had some problem for some time and then... my RAM died.
OMG... I might have the same problem... At first I thought it was tied in with Myth since most of the crashes happened while on Myth or working on a plugin for Myth. I think I need to backup my files ASAP and reformatt the hard drive.
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Post by Slinx »

No problem now. Installed a new copy of Myth, earlier install was placed over a early install.

For some reason now I can alt tab during the loading time and not crash the game now as well as alt tab all I want without losing text.


When game starts though it looks sorta like its crashing, though.
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Post by Slinx »

From all the medicine in the last few days and sleeping half the time, not sure if I installed my new modem before or after the clean install.
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Post by Eddaweaver »

http://www.memtest.org/
if you want to test your RAM.
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Post by Slinx »

Ok, problem started again. However I guess I temporarily fixed it instead by using Software for graphics rather than my onboard graphics card.

However, in each game I'm getting spurts of lag that I was getting before.
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Post by Eddaweaver »

Possibly graphics driver problems. If it were me I'd remove the drivers and try the version that was installed before.



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