Have download a game from Bigfishgames and my computer shuts down

[Guest Blindy]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

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