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N4 & Win2000

Tim Vannam

N4 & Win2000

by Tim Vannam » Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:16:29

This may be an OS error because it happens with more than
one game.

When running Half-Life or N4, my system will sometimes just
halt the program and go back to desktop.  No errors, nothing.
Every once in a while it will make the machine reboot.  Again,
no errors.

The halting has occurred w/ both a Voodoo2 Banshee and Riva TNT2
card.  Once N4 goes back to the desktop, you must reboot before
it will work again, otherwise it goes to the "black screen of death" :).

I'm migrating to ME now.

My guess is the programs start using too many resources and the OS
shuts it down.  I guess it's possible the graphix card is overheating,
but it has a fan on it and is not hot to the touch immediately after
shutting down from one of the mishaps.

AMD K7-900   256M memory
Riva TNT2   AGP  32M
Win2000 SP1 - DX 8.0a

Tim.


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