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Originally Posted by vppn
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My cure was going back and reinstalling proper Motherboard, Video, and Sound drivers.. After that this crash has stopped.. I started with the CD's that came with each hardware item..
Good luck..
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Yup, that's exactly what it turned out to be for me too ; drivers (in my case, the audio drivers). Once I updated those, I was golden - no more crashes.
More recently, I was mucking around with my system due to some other issue, and in all my trials & errors, I had uninstalled and reinstalled many Windows components and programs (IE6, OE6, among several other things situated in the WINDOWS folder). This did not harm my machine but I guess it reset my audio drivers back to the originals.
And in all this mucking around, the updated drivers that were found on my system when I upgraded to fix the crashing game issue, must have been deleted in the process, cos they could not be found for updating when I experienced another crash yesterday : while on a local city transit site, I tried to open a Flash map (while playing music), and the same thing happened ; the sound went rapidly "vibrating" for a few fractions of a second, before the entire system crashed. Very much the way it happened with my game issue.
So, with no newer drivers stored on my comp anywhere, I went to the site of my Sound Device (Realtek) and got the most recent drivers downlaoded and saved to a safe location where the system will not delete them again. After installing, I tried the Flash map on the transit site again (playing music, again), and everything was fine.
So the short answer for this issue (for anyone else with a similar problem reading this thread) would be :
DRIVERS! Update them. Outdated drivers are the likely cause.
Thanks for your message to "confirm", vppn. :-)
WTW