SMASH COMPUTER!

[orikes]

ANG SMASH! GRAARHRG!

All I want to do is play a video game. That's all. Just a simple game of Neverwinter Nights or Icewind Dale or... something. The computer keeps crashing randomly when I try and play these games. During other stuff it will occasionally randomly reboot, but it's almost guaranteed whenever I try and play a high graphics video game on the computer. I used to play Everquest no problem on this computer, but everything else makes it crash. The Sims? Boom. Icewind Dale? Boom. Neverwinter Nights? BOOM!

Does anyone have any advice? I can't really afford any new hardware right now, especially not this close to Christmas. I know the best solution would be to just get a new computer, but that ain't gonna happen. (The computer is running WinXp with 512 SD RAM, with a 1.4ghz AMD processor. The video card is a Geforce 2MX400 or something like that. Soundblaster Live! sound card.)

All I wanted to do was play a hackenslash rpg tonight. *pout*

Comments

[justacrazygirl.livejournal.com]

That same thing happened out our new computer when we first tried to load Neverwinter nights. It loaded fine, but at random times during play the entire computer would just shut down.

We found out that we needed to download an update for our sound drivers. After that, everything ran just fine. :)

Don't trust customer service for NWN. They told us at first that we needed a new video card (and this for a computer that we'd just purchased a few days before.) I think we browsed through some NWN's forums and found that other people had posted about the same type of problem and the solution.

Wish I could remember exactly where, but it was in January. :/

a note...

[justacrazygirl.livejournal.com]

Granted, this problem was on our new computer. The old one (that we bought in 1999) just flat out couldn't handle newer games like NWN. Lagged, locked up...very frustrating.

Anyway, good luck! :)

[pomr.livejournal.com]

I'd do this:
Download the newest Video Driver for your card and install it.
Download the newest Sound Drive for your card and install it.
Download the most recent version of Direct X.

That would most likely do it, I had to do that a lot when I was playing BG2, and it usually fixed what ailed it for a few days.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I noticed that in the Device manager under sound I have listed two 'legacy' entries. Legacy Sound something and something else. I was wondering if deleting everything in Device Manager and reinstalling everything would work. Probably not. Probably break everything, huh? :)

I did the video drivers a couple of weeks ago. I'll try the sound drivers and the Direct X tonight.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Just make sure you do DirectX last. :) I found that worked best. :)

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

Bah.

I tried it, it didn't work. Updated my video drivers a couple of weeks ago. This morning I updated my sound drivers (though I'm not sure they took or I got the right ones) and updated Direct X. Was able to play for 20 minutes, then it crashed. Tried again and it lasted 10 minutes.