Dray
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Posted - 2005.07.29 09:23:00 -
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This seems to be a familiar theme, here's my misadventures of cold war....
Pre cold I could run no problem, 1 acc, 2 acc's made no difference, alt & tabbing out of game was ok, now when i alt & tab its a 50/50 chance if i can get back into the game, still shows eve running but the screen wont load when i tab back to eve, also ctd's and pc lockups. Ctd's more common when running windowed.
At first i thought maybe my gfx card was on its way out, Ive an MSI x800xt plat edition, to be fair this is a good card, which ive added extra heats sinks to the memory on the card, ive another pc on my network with a x800pro also an MSI card also with mem heat sinks added, so i switched cards and still got the same problem.
Started looking for symptoms (other than playing eve  ) and started to stress my pc to see if i could cause silmilar crashes, 3dmark bench tests one after the other, playing other demanding games with ramped up gfx, and after a 4 hour stint of benching and gaming I didnt have one issue (other than some tard with gimped rates during a CS:S game).
Loaded eve and after an extended session the random ctd's alt and tab crashes and worst of all the pc lock ups with a delightfull squealing coming from my speakers, which if im not mistaken is caused by excessive heat, all started again.
So with this in mind i installed motherboard monitor to check out cpu heat, apparently when i play eve my cpu temp increases from 38-40 degrees to 48 degrees, i stop playing and it drops back to around 40. No other game does this, obviously games make demands on gfx aswell so they dont hump the cpu like some app's but that is a huge increase in temp for one game, checked cpu priority its set to normal.
I get the alt & tab issues on my other pc but not the cpu temp increase and the random ctd's only start to occur when its ran for any great length of time.
box 1
Athlon XP3200 64bit cpu 754pin, 1 gig 400drr, ausu k8v mobo, msi x800xt pe
box 2
Athon XP2800, 1 gig 400ddr, msi n7n2g mobo, msi x800 pro.
Any chance of a response from someone at ccp with advice or information regarding changes in cold war that could cause issues.
I picked up this ace book today everyone rates it as a must buy for the budding military genius, tho ive decided to rename it as "Sun Tzu's art of the bloody obvious" |