Ok Starcraft has been acting up recently by crashing. It dose this in three ways: Returning to the desktop unexpectedly(and closeing the game), restarting unexpectedly, and crashing in a blue screen with a file called ntoskrnl.exe (which turns out to be a boot up file). I have windows 2000. Help!
is BW the only thing that makes it crash?
It is multiplayer BW as far as i know... i could type out what the error looks like on the blue screen... kinda takes a while to do
When in brood war? When you join certain games? Because some games are crashers. (they crash your starcraft, purposly)
Don't be stupid. If it was certain games, would he be posting here? He would simply stop playing, unless he BIG NUB!
QUOTE(Neiji @ Oct 9 2005, 12:17 AM)
Don't be stupid. If it was certain games, would he be posting here? He would simply stop playing, unless he BIG NUB!
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There are more crashers then "Dont look at the dot", i join games like "Sunken D" that are actually crashers all of the time! And maybe he is a BIG NUB!
Ok im not THAT stupid this is not THAT kind of crash. Those wouldnt bluescreen...
Or are they hidden in games like path d and tarpit d? Just because im new hear dosent mean im new to starcraft. However I do realze you have to ask the stupid questions to solve the problem.
Edit: whoops forgot to mention that there is annother file the bluescreen mentions, "hal.dll". It also dossent just occur with starcraft brood war. it also occurs after it crashes to the desktop (the kind of crash that would occur with those dont look at the dot games but i dont play those so HAH). AFter it crashes to desktop it seems to make the system unstable...
Well I have the same problem as you with the bluescreen, but not with just starcraft and a few other things.
Mine well, I get the bluescreen at least once an hour. The errors it says are:
IQRL_NOT LESS OR EQUAL
Memory_...something..somthing...
(Nothing at all, just a blue screen)
Only memory arrays:
0x0000008
0x0000008e
wink32.sys
kmixer.sys
When I play games my cpu goes up to at least 130F, so it could be just overheating.
SYSTEM SPEC:
3.4ghz P4 W/ HT Slot 478
Thermal Take Copper Heat Sink
Abit CT7 Motherboard
1 200gb HD
1 120gb hd
1 120gb External hd
4.1 sound
1 52x cd burner
1 CD/DVD burner
ATI RADEON 9600 and RADEON both AGP
Up to date drivers
DirectX 9.0c
Windows XP Home SP2
My cpu runs at least 130F when playing games
At 108F when IDLE
Basic proccessing is at 110F
startup is at 125F
CPU fan is between 6000-6500RPM
It could also be graphics card, the system detects the 256 ram but it acts like it has like only 10mb of ram.
The games,
Halo Demo: It dosen't even run it, only says "Can not run Direct3D"(paraphraseing).
Steam games: Only runs at max 10 minutes and then it just crashes.
Starcraft: Works for at most 90 minutes and then it crashes.
AOE 3 Demo: Works for 2 minutes and then crashes.
Pariah: dosen't even run!
GTA SA: Dosen't even load the processing. Just a small second of lag and then thats it. (Great game, right........)
I have already been thinking, its possible its cpu overheating or graphics card or somthing wrong with the software.
If you know how to fix it please tell me! So I don't go spending alot of money on things that might not fix the problem!
Now for your problem, Well whatever the processing the programs are using and then when they crash they close some programs that also keep the other things running stable.
Its like taking one of the 4 supports of a tower thats on 4 supports, it would just colapse.
Stupid question....
Your prossessor has a heat sink and a fan on the heat sink correct?
If it dossent that can be a huge factor.
Second, only one fan???
Your gonnna need more then that to have your computer to run better.
This COULD be a BIOS problem but I dobt it.
I would sugest a better case...
with at least 5 fans for good air flow arround the computer.
or liquid cooling works really well but it costs a lot and there could always be a leak on the line...
Althogh im not a technition...
but if overheating is the problem you clould open the case of the computer and put a fan blowing on it. That would cool it off and wont cost a lot eather.
Hope I helped... wait.... wassnt I asking for help... oh bother....