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Old 02-18-2007, 05:06 PM   #10 (permalink)
Liquiddragon
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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OS: Windows XP


I rea in the Silkroad forums,www.silkroadforums.com, technical center on a threa stating the Q&A's on Silkroad problems and saw this:

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COMMON PROBLEMS:

When I play the game (any 3d game), the computer restarts:

Additionally you might see a blue screen with various white numbers if you have made that setting in windows to; not restart the computer during a problem. The above mentioned problem usually caused because:

* Hardware failure

Combining different kinds of hardware doesn't always work, buying a new fresh graphic card and using an old power supply will cause the computer to restart, because it cant supply enough power for the graphic card. New graphic cards requires strong power supplies. If you a rather old computer and decides to upgrade it by buying a new graphic card, this might occur.

Bad ram is another reason, if you have several ram sticks witch doesn't match each other this might happen.

* Driver failure

There's drivers for your graphic card, but there's also drivers or your chip set. If you buy a new graphic card, it might not work correctly with the current installed drivers for your chipset. A common thing which is often seen is people who have an old VIA chipset with a new Nvidia Geforce graphic card, this will often cause a memory leak if the wrong chipset driver is installed.

If you have this issue, try and describe as much as you know about your computer. These errors can be quite troublesome to troubleshot. There's an excellent program called Everest which list which hardware parts your computer contain and who made them.

Everest can be downloaded here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html


When I play the game (any 3d game), the computer freezes:

This might be caused because of a memory leak, additionally the mouse cursor might freeze and the computer might start begin to make various kinds of beep sounds.

This might be caused because bad RAM or faulty drivers related to your graphic card and chipset.
I think the last one is my problem, except I only have 1 beep when my computer and mouse cursor freeze instea of various kinds of beep sounds. I have finished the steps, instead of number 5, which we are working on right now.

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