City of Heroes crashing...

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I am posting this for my roommate. He is haveing a difficult time with City
of Heroes whatever lastest version it is. His machine is populated as
follows... Gigabyte Titan k8 MB with AMD athlon 64 processor, windows xp home
with all the updates, MSI Geforce 7300LE Graphics 512MB with lastest Nvidia
driver, SATA hard drive and Patriot low latency 1GB memory. The game crashes
and does several memory dumps and yes we've had the occasional blue screen.
He doesn't have a problem with City of Villians though and he has downloaded
latest patches for the game. Any ideas. I've tested the memory chip and that
seems to be fine. I'm comming down to a memory (hardware or software) issue
but I don't know what and how.
 
J

Jimmy S.

Hi ebar3,

Hardware issues can cause freezing, black screens and other
errors. Also, your drivers should always be kept up to date.

Try the following steps one at a time to try and resolve the issue.
I hope this helps. Please post back if you have any questions! :)

1. Update DirectX and your Chipset, Sound, &Video Drivers:
For all Video / DirectX / Game and Hardware Issues, I have a
Checklist of Solutions at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk

2. Dust your fans, vents and components using a 1/4" paintbrush
and a hose vacuum. Use compressed air for hard to reach places.
Set a housefan to blow cold air into your case to expose an over-
heating issue.. If it works add more fans or replace defective ones.
Use this Motherboard Monitor Utility: http://mbm.livewiredev.com

3. A faulty power supply can cause STOP errors, random reboots,
and black screen lockups. One way to test for that is to check the
wattage sticker on your power supply and then calculate your need
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/ (Min. 350 for gaming)

4. Test your RAM using: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

--
Cheers, Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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ebar3 Wrote:
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| I am posting this for my roommate. He is haveing a difficult time with City
| of Heroes whatever lastest version it is. His machine is populated as
| follows... Gigabyte Titan k8 MB with AMD athlon 64 processor, windows xp home
| with all the updates, MSI Geforce 7300LE Graphics 512MB with lastest Nvidia
| driver, SATA hard drive and Patriot low latency 1GB memory. The game crashes
| and does several memory dumps and yes we've had the occasional blue screen.
| He doesn't have a problem with City of Villians though and he has downloaded
| latest patches for the game. Any ideas. I've tested the memory chip and that
| seems to be fine. I'm comming down to a memory (hardware or software) issue
| but I don't know what and how.
 

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