Unhandled exception?

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Joel

When playing Grand Theft Auto Vice city and other 3D
games (Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor) my computer will
lock up and exit to Windows XP. It gives the error
message "unhandled exception: c0000096 at address:
004bc1e3". What does this mean?
 
Could be a lot of things - for example, the program may be dividing by zero
and the error is not being trapped within the program.

The key is which program is doing it - it may be the game itself - in which
case check for updates. Or it may be your graphics/sound drivers - in which
case check for updates.
 
If after checking the updates for graphics and sound and running dxdiag
without reported problems it still happens - then yoiu should inverstigate
possible intermitend hardware failure:

This could be due to:
(1) the processor overheating (especially if you have overclocked withour
sufficient cooling)
(2) RAM failure
(3) Graphics card failure

Playing games puts additional stress on the hardware and could cause these
items to have intermittent failure.
 
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