The hotdog man on 20/6/2006 at 00:12
I'll be playing Thief Gold for roughly an hour or more and at some completley random spot, be it ingame or on the menu screen the computer just crashes. There's a brief blue screen and then it resets. I try to get it to crash again but then it doesn't. This has been happening for about three days in a row now and i'm seriously beginning to question my computer's health should this go on much longer. Anyways I have an amd 2200 and a geforce ti 4200, 512 ram and XP pro. If there's anything else you might need let me know. Thanks in advance.
The hotdog man on 20/6/2006 at 20:08
Anyone? This just happened again. Are there some programs out there that have been known to cause similar problems with thief while running in the background?
The hotdog man on 20/6/2006 at 22:45
I don't have a dual processor computer. Thanks for helping thoguh.
jermi on 21/6/2006 at 20:46
Overheating.
enter on 21/6/2006 at 21:36
Thief shouldn't stress your system too much but if you have an older motherboard one thing to check in strange crashes would be for (
http://www.badcaps.net/ident/) bad capacitors. I had about 4 (out of 6) slightly bulged ones from my old mobo. One major supplier produced few years ago (2001?) a run of faulty ones and they were spread pretty widely.
Also if you have access try running it with a different power supply to check if the problem persists.
The hotdog man on 21/6/2006 at 23:26
Weird thing is, after it resets and I continue playing I run into no problems or at least none so far and this has happened consistantly since about a few weeks ago when I first installed it. I doubt i've got the mobo problem cause if the capasiters were damaged (or anything else) wouldn't that effect the whole computer and not just while running this one program? Either way thanks for the tips.
dlw6 on 21/6/2006 at 23:42
Quote Posted by The hotdog man
I don't have a dual processor computer. Thanks for helping thoguh.
If you have a Pentium built in the last few years, you may have HyperThreading which acts like a dual-processor system when running XP. I have two single-processor P4 machines, and both have this problem unless I run the HyperThread batch file linked above.
Read more: (
http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/)
Don
The hotdog man on 22/6/2006 at 03:16
Did AMD do something similar in the past few years? My computer was built around 2001/2002. It's specs are in my first post.
