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gameyoda

Let me explain the situation a bit (again Razz

). It started with my new computer and 2 video cards in crossfire and games randomly crashing. After some thinking and heat measuring I thought the videocards were over heating so I traded them in for a new one.
With the new one my computer still crashed (froze) during most games so I asked for help here and I was told that it was most likely my BIOS so I patched it (using RBE) and the problem was still there.
When I watched the event viewer it told me the games shot down with error code 0x80000003 and an error at the basekernel.dll. After some more trying and searching on the internet I found out that the problem wasn't caused by the games being bad or my videocard or even broken memory.
The problem was windows vista (64-bit) more or less. After formatting my computer and putting xp (32-bit) on it the problem was gone.
I got a copy of windows 7 (64-bit) from a friend who said that might help and installed it, it fixed almost all the crashes and now only fable crashes (with skill selecting, but I think thats an ingame bug with 64-bit or something).

Conclusion: I think vista just isn't really good at supporting games as a 64-bit OS. Just wait till windows 7 is out and most problems should be fixed (only 1 out of 30 games crashes now and that one is fable).

goldengold · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:50 am Post subject:

MY computer sometimes gets a BSOD when I play AoE3.
I am on vistax64

gameyoda · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:12 am Post subject:

This is a link for xp, but I think it will also work on vista:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1647&page=4

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject:

It's not Vista, it's your setup.

PS: I've been through the entire Fable campaign on Vista before with no problems...

gameyoda · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject:

If it wasnt vista but the setup Im laughing atm because the person who put vista on my comp did it for a living and would thus most likely know how to do it right.

Just 2 things, did you play it out on vista 64-bit home premiom?
And I did play it on vista without crashing, but it made games like farcry 2 and stuff crash.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:18 pm Post subject:

I use a copy of Vista Business x64.

I've also completed boring ass FarCry 2 on it.

Calling user error.

gameyoda · Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:32 am Post subject:

Wonder what I did wrong then...only installed simple programs on it and 5 games at the same time max (500GB HDD, so I dont think that will really hurt the performance).
And why it did work with windows 7(64-bit) and xp (32-bit) as I had the same programs on it then.