Game Installed?

[EpicHubris]

Okay so I own one THQ game and have borrowed another from a friend and neither of them work. My computer has plenty of power but the game crashes the entire computer at random points. When I try to reinstall the game the computer acts as if I have yet to install it. What is going on?!?

[Tiber Septim]

Hi EpicHubris. Welcome to TSF.

If you haven't already, run thought the First Steps.

Would you be able to give us a bit more information about your computer? Also, which games are you trying to run?
Are the crashes just going back to the desktop or is the entire computer shutting down?

[EpicHubris]

Pentium 4 processor 3.2 GH
512 Memory
200 MB hard drive
Nvidia G-Force 4 6800 graphics card

The entire computer crashes and restarts. This also only seems to happen with THQ games which I can't understand. The driver for the graphics card should be up to date and everything else runs very smoothly. The games are Supreme Commander and Warhammer- Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

[EpicHubris]

come on guys I need help, I've gone through the list before posting and STILL have issues

[koala]

Which games are you having trouble with? Do they use DirectX or OpenGL?

When it crashes do you get an error message or a blue screen?

Post your full system specs.

Have you contacted THQ or been to their online support center to see if there are any known problems?

[EpicHubris]

The game I am working with at the moment is Warhammer 40,000k Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. I have contacted THQ. It uses Direct X 9b. The specs I have posted are the most detailed I can find at the moment. The problem with the game is that when I install it the computer recognizes that it is there, then I try to play the game and about 8 seconds later the computer crashes and when it comes back online, the game is still in the start menu and program files but the computer does not recognize that it is there. I put the CD in and it asks if I want to install the game. WHAT IS GOING ON?!?

[koala]

Originally Posted by EpicHubris

the game is still in the start menu and program files but the computer does not recognize that it is there.

Does this mean that the shortcut to the game is incorrect? Right-click the shortcut, select Properties and see what the Target Location says. Can you open Windows Explorer and run the game from the file listed in the Target?

To see if there are any problems with your DirectX, go to Start > Run > dxdiag > Display tab and run the tests. Any errors or messages listed in the Notes box?

[EpicHubris]

Checked DirectX and everything else, it all works perfectly. As of now the game does not exist on the computer besides an empty folder named Dawn of War with a short-cut to the website for the game. Yesterday when I was playing around with it the game at least had a shortcut on the screen and showed up on the start list.

[EpicHubris]

Does this mean anything? I found this in the folder...


20:20:03.34 DARKCRUSADE started at 2007-06-05 20:20
20:20:03.34 OS NT 5.1, 1024MB Physical Memory
20:20:03.34 RUN-OPTIONS
20:20:03.34 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
20:20:03.34 USER User
20:20:03.34
20:20:11.03 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=unknown:f=15,m=4, Mode=SSE
20:20:11.03 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'
20:20:11.03 GAME -- Warning: Failed to map folder 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'.
20:20:11.03 GAME -- Warhammer, 1.1, Build 95874
20:20:11.03 GAME -- Available memory: 1023MB RAM, 2410MB Pagefile
20:20:11.03 State::State - set socket send buffer to 131072
20:20:11.03 State::State - set socket receive buffer to 131072
20:20:11.03 HostState - 192.168.1.43:6112 / 192.168.1.43:6112
20:20:11.03 Session : Now Host
20:20:11.03 Session : We are now a Host
20:20:11.03 PeerState - 192.168.1.43:6112 / 192.168.1.43:6112
20:20:11.03 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
20:20:11.03 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
20:20:11.03 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
20:20:11.03 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = nv4_disp.dll Device = \\.\DISPLAY1 Desc = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
20:20:11.03 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x00C3 SubSys = 0xC3813842 Rev = 0x00A2
20:20:11.03 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0006 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x000A Build = 0x24D0 (9424)
20:20:11.03 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-4383-11CF-227F-8BE303C2CB35}
20:20:11.03 SPOOGE -- 616.00MB available texture memory
20:20:11.03 SPOOGE -- 616.00MB available texture memory
20:20:11.03 GAME -- Beginning FE
20:20:11.09 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:dxp_relic_intro.lua'

[EpicHubris]

One last thing, it seems that my hard drive is fine, I've istalled several things and they work perfectly fine.