Game crashes after short freeze and harddrive sound

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 27 Dec 2006, 15:58

Yes... my harddrive starts making sound, like it was copying some shit to somewhere, then the game crashes after it has done that for like 10 secs.

This happened me many times. And it happened now again -.-

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imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 27 Dec 2006, 17:36

Sounds like you've run out of RAM.

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 27 Dec 2006, 18:06

TradeMark wrote:Yes... my harddrive starts making sound

Be afraid, very afraid.

Post by **hollowsoul** » 27 Dec 2006, 19:57

Depends on sound your harddrive is making

Either u ran outof ram & windows is trying to grow the swap file to a larger size. And is basicly the swap file is now in several parts & thus windows is all over the place on harddrive.

Check size of swap page file & increase it, defrag couldnt hurt.
Buy more ram will help of course

Or if the harddrive sounds happens when outside game.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hddt/knowtree ... enDocument

Could be sign of a dying harddrive.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 27 Dec 2006, 20:03

i had 800 megs ram left...

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 27 Dec 2006, 21:06

Then you back up everything and buy a new hard drive, since it's living on borrowed time.

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 27 Dec 2006, 21:13

If the game stops while the HDD is 'working', it may be that it just takes a lot of time for the OS to kill the game, maybe it's writing a crash log or something; as usual, make sure you're running on newest drivers, etc.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 27 Dec 2006, 22:52

Caydr wrote:Then you back up everything and buy a new hard drive, since it's living on borrowed time.

This is new harddrive

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 28 Dec 2006, 11:45

TradeMark wrote:...
This is new harddrive

"This is a broken new harddrive

"

Manufacturer's homepage should have some tool to test the disk. Use it. Since it is new, it is inside the waranty span, which means that if it is broken they will fix it or exchange it for free, though.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 28 Dec 2006, 12:17

I dont think it is broken, if it was, it would do that same error with any other game/program. But this only happens with spring...

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Ok i got the same kind crash now: i shared units to no-one when playing alone. Then it starts reading/writing the harddrive, and then it crashs.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 28 Dec 2006, 17:13

It could just be writing a memory dump to the harddrive before crashing.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 28 Dec 2006, 18:15

Older version of Spring it made the error report thing, but now it doesnt, why?

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 28 Dec 2006, 19:48

CrashReport was MSVC only. Spring 0.74b2 will have a basic crashreporter for MinGW.

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