Day of Defeat crash

[Sean]

Whenever I play Day of Defeat on my laptop it crashes
at random. Sometimes I could play for an hour other times
I only get to play for 20 min.
When it crashes I get a blue screen of death
saying "An error has occured and Window was shutdown for
safety", then it says it had a problem with a file. The
funney things is, is that it is a different file each
time. First it was kmixer.sys and then win32k.sys. I have
uninstalled the game multiple times and the same problem
happens.
Here are my specs: Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4
CPU 2.40GHz
Memory: 510MB RAM
Page File: 251MB used, 997MB available
Windows Ver: Windows XP Home
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
Video Card: Mobility 9000 (Radeon/FireGL -
Plutonium XP 8.1 - Build 6166) 64Mb

Please help

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Sean,

The first thing I would do in your situation is visit the website
of the laptop's manufacturer, and update all system drivers,
in particular the drivers for Chipset, Sound, and Video.

Driver installation instructions should be provided at the web
site, or start from Step 2 of my desktop video driver install
instructions: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers

OVERHEATING is the #1 cause of various laptop problems!
Be certain that you're not blocking the laptop's air vents,
and that they are free of dust. Look for signs of overheating
by running your hand along the sides and bottom of the laptop.

If you notice your laptop is running hot, and the fans are all
working properly, one trick that I've used with my old laptop
was to sit it on a clean flat box (similar to a medium pizza box),
in which I kept several cooler ice packs from the freezer. ;-)

If you feel that your laptop is overheating way too much, you
should contact the manufacturer to see what they suggest. In
some cases they may need to replace the CPU heating fan, or
recommend the ideal Power Settings to use while gaming.

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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[rAiN]

-----Original Message-----
Whenever I play Day of Defeat on my laptop it crashes
at random. Sometimes I could play for an hour other times
I only get to play for 20 min.
When it crashes I get a blue screen of death
saying "An error has occured and Window was shutdown for
safety", then it says it had a problem with a file. The
funney things is, is that it is a different file each
time. First it was kmixer.sys and then win32k.sys. I have
uninstalled the game multiple times and the same problem
happens.
Here are my specs: Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4
CPU 2.40GHz
Memory: 510MB RAM
Page File: 251MB used, 997MB available
Windows Ver: Windows XP Home
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
Video Card: Mobility 9000 (Radeon/FireGL -
Plutonium XP 8.1 - Build 6166) 64Mb

Please help
.

Where ever u dloaded or got the game from..Looks like a
file or two seem corrupted..try getting DoD from another
place man /try gamespy3d.com...or whatever ..Hope it
works