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Game crashes after short freeze and harddrive sound
Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 15:58
by TradeMark
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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Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 17:36
by imbaczek
Sounds like you've run out of RAM.
Re: Game crashes after short freeze and harddrive sound
Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 18:06
by Relative
TradeMark wrote:Yes... my harddrive starts making sound
Be afraid, very afraid.
Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 19:57
by hollowsoul
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.
Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 20:03
by TradeMark
i had 800 megs ram left...
Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 21:06
by Caydr
Then you back up everything and buy a new hard drive, since it's living on borrowed time.
Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 21:13
by imbaczek
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.
Posted: 27 Dec 2006, 22:52
by TradeMark
Caydr wrote:Then you back up everything and buy a new hard drive, since it's living on borrowed time.
This is new harddrive
Posted: 28 Dec 2006, 11:45
by PauloMorfeo
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.
Posted: 28 Dec 2006, 12:17
by TradeMark
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.
Posted: 28 Dec 2006, 17:13
by LordMatt
It could just be writing a memory dump to the harddrive before crashing.
Posted: 28 Dec 2006, 18:15
by TradeMark
Older version of Spring it made the error report thing, but now it doesnt, why?
Posted: 28 Dec 2006, 19:48
by Tobi
CrashReport was MSVC only. Spring 0.74b2 will have a basic crashreporter for MinGW.