Guest Blindy Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Hi there. When I click on the icon to play the game my computer shuts down and restarts. I have downloaded 2 different games to see if it did it on both and it does. Any ideas as to why this could be happening
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Re: Have download a game from Bigfishgames and my computer shuts down "Blindy" <Blindy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8927ED88-FE85-4B74-996E-A21F768BA3B0@microsoft.com... > Hi there. When I click on the icon to play the game my computer shuts > down > and restarts. I have downloaded 2 different games to see if it did it on > both and it does. > > Any ideas as to why this could be happening That generally means your computer is crashing. With games, this is often due to video driver issues. Right-click on My Computer, choose Properties, then Advanced, click on the Settings button in the Startup and Recovery section. Under System Failure, take the checkmark off from "Automatically Restart" Choose OK and Apply back to the desktop. This won't fix anything. But it will cause XP to stop and show you an error message the next time it starts to crash, and you can use that to determine what's happening and where. And that's what you need to know to be able to fix it. As well, you can look in the Event Logs. Right-click My Computer, choose Manage. You'll find the logs there. HTH -pk
Guest Paul Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Re: Have download a game from Bigfishgames and my computer shutsdown Re: Have download a game from Bigfishgames and my computer shutsdown Blindy wrote: > Hi there. When I click on the icon to play the game my computer shuts down > and restarts. I have downloaded 2 different games to see if it did it on > both and it does. > > Any ideas as to why this could be happening Do you have games from places other than Bigfishgames to test with ? Do you know whether the games use 3D effects ? To test my (older) computers and their graphics, I try this program. It benchmarks the DirectX performance of the computer and graphics. You can download the ~40MB package, install it, do the benchmark, and see whether your computer shuts off when this is running or not. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download99.html To test just your CPU and memory are working well, there is a program called Prime95 that does a good job. Ideally, you'd want to run it for a few hours, and during that time there should be no errors reported. If you see errors, it means either memory, Northbridge (part of motherboard), or CPU has a problem, with memory being a suspect. I like this version, because it can test a quad core just as easily as my old single core Celeron. When it asks whether you want to "join GIMPs", say no, as you're "just testing". The custom dialog allows the amount of memory to be tested, to be adjusted if you want (reduce the value, if you want to do other work on the computer while the test runs). After that, the torture test should start running. You can stop it after a few hours, which should be enough time to prove the computer works OK. ftp://mersenne.org/p95v256.zip If your computer shuts off immediately, when the actual testing starts under Prime95, then you'd suspect either a problem with CPU overheat, or perhaps a power supply problem caused by the stress of running a demanding application. A properly designed computer should not be affected by anything the user does, and if a computer "falls over", then something is not right with it. You can use Siteadvisor, to get some info about the site, and decide whether you can trust them or not. http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/bigfishgames.com Paul
Guest Bruce Chambers Posted October 24, 2008 Posted October 24, 2008 Re: Have download a game from Bigfishgames and my computer shutsdown Re: Have download a game from Bigfishgames and my computer shutsdown Blindy wrote: > Hi there. When I click on the icon to play the game my computer shuts down > and restarts. I have downloaded 2 different games to see if it did it on > both and it does. > > Any ideas as to why this could be happening Bad programming by the games' manufacturers? Incompatible games? Have you asked them why their products are causing problems? -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot
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