N3 crashing

I've got a pIII 500 with a Creative labs annihilator Geoforce. Last week N3 started crashing after about 30 mins of play. I tried everything including a format and reinstall of my hard drive, and the f******g problem is still there. can anyone help, its really begining to piss me off. thanks

raja <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:8drpj1$qoi$[email hidden]... > I thought it could be overheating, but I've never run anythingoverclocked. > Also its just in N3. I ran unreal tournament for an hour yesterday in D3Dto Just because you don't overclock something doesn't mean it's not still overheating. There's a possibility N3 pushes your overall hardware to overheat more so than UT. try UNDERCLOCKING your video card and see if that does anything. Also look VERY closely at your BIOS settings for your memory timing to see if there's anything there to "throttle down." Gunner

raja <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:8drpj1$qoi$[email hidden]... > I thought it could be overheating, but I've never run anythingoverclocked. > Also its just in N3. I ran unreal tournament for an hour yesterday in D3Dto Just because you don't overclock something doesn't mean it's not still overheating. There's a possibility N3 pushes your overall hardware to overheat more so than UT. try UNDERCLOCKING your video card and see if that does anything. Also look VERY closely at your BIOS settings for your memory timing to see if there's anything there to "throttle down." Gunner

I thought it could be overheating, but I've never run anything overclocked. Also its just in N3. I ran unreal tournament for an hour yesterday in D3D to test it but it didn't crash. I'll try all the suggestions (except changing my hardware - not that rich) and see what happens. Thanks Dave Henrie wrote in message <[email hidden]>...

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> yup when the time frame of crashing is somewhat consistant, then >there is a good chance you have a heat short or just an overstressed >component. Try yanking things like the sound card out and see if it >continues...of course, make sure you have the latest drivers for all >your components. >dave henrie > >Skotty Flynn wrote: >> >> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:13:25 -0700, "raja" <[email hidden]> >> wrote: >> >> >I've got a pIII 500 with a Creative labs annihilator Geoforce. Last week

N3 >> >started crashing after about 30 mins of play. I tried everythingincluding a

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>> >format and reinstall of my hard drive, and the f******g problem is still >> >there. can anyone help, its really begining to piss me off. >> > >> >thanks >> > >> >> Sounds like an overheating problem. Are you overclocking anything? >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Skotty Flynn >> skotty20 on Won >> >> Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: >> http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com >> >> The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: >> http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/

On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:13:25 -0700, "raja" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I've got a pIII 500 with a Creative labs annihilator Geoforce. Last week N3 >started crashing after about 30 mins of play. I tried everything including a >format and reinstall of my hard drive, and the f******g problem is still >there. can anyone help, its really begining to piss me off. > >thanks >

Sounds like an overheating problem. Are you overclocking anything? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Skotty Flynn skotty20 on Won Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/

yup when the time frame of crashing is somewhat consistant, then there is a good chance you have a heat short or just an overstressed component. Try yanking things like the sound card out and see if it continues...of course, make sure you have the latest drivers for all your components. dave henrie Skotty Flynn wrote:

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> > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:13:25 -0700, "raja" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >I've got a pIII 500 with a Creative labs annihilator Geoforce. Last week N3 > >started crashing after about 30 mins of play. I tried everything including a > >format and reinstall of my hard drive, and the f******g problem is still > >there. can anyone help, its really begining to piss me off. > > > >thanks > > > > Sounds like an overheating problem. Are you overclocking anything? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Skotty Flynn > skotty20 on Won > > Nascar-Racing-Sims.Com: > http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com > > The Ultimate Sim Racing Directory: > http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com/directory/

I seem to experience the same crashes with a PIII 500 and a GeForce Pro in both N3 and NLegends. Can run F1 2000 for hours though. There's nothing overclocked here so i begin to suspect the Papy stuff just doesn't go too well with the GeForce... -- Greetings, XLjunkie --THE UTILITY PIT-- http://utility-pit.homepage.com Eric Anderson <[email hidden]> schreef in berichtnieuws [email hidden]... > raja <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:8drpj1$qoi$[email hidden]... > > I thought it could be overheating, but I've never run anything > overclocked. > > Also its just in N3. I ran unreal tournament for an hour yesterday in D3D > to > > > Just because you don't overclock something doesn't mean it's not still > overheating. There's a possibility N3 pushes your overall hardware to > overheat more so than UT. try UNDERCLOCKING your video card and see if that > does anything. Also look VERY closely at your BIOS settings for your memory > timing to see if there's anything there to "throttle down." > > Gunner > >