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DragonSpawn · 06-27-2008, 12:14 PM

Ok tried it a 2nd time. Launched. Tried it a third time in a row...crashed.

DragonSpawn · 06-27-2008, 12:23 PM

Took a flashlight and looked into the box from the outside without opening it. It seems as if the 8800GTX has both pins in. Since there are two cables side by side which seem to plug into the card.

DragonSpawn · 06-27-2008, 12:41 PM

Okay it launched again. This time I decided to alt-tab from the launched game. That worked. I launched teamspeak to talk with a few people. However when I tried to maximize it again after alt-tabbing it collapsed. Think the fact that I started program that uses audio drivers caused the crash when I wanted to maximize it again?

DragonSpawn · 06-27-2008, 12:45 PM

Ok I just launched it with teamspeak already on before launching it. The launch failed and I crashed.

I then next time decided to launch the game without teamspeak on. It launched perfectly again. I then alt-tabbed and it crashed me.

So judging from these tests I should not alt-tab the games. But still after the driver cleaner it seems to me the amount of successful launches to fullscreen increased by easily 75%. However crashes seem to occur as a rule if I have a program that requires audio drivers (such as a gaming chat tool such as teamspeak) running or if I alt-tab from the game once it launched fullscreen.

These info's helpful?

**Dalo Harkin** · 06-27-2008, 01:22 PM

Thats thrown me - who made the PC - you may have to get in touch with them.

DragonSpawn · 06-27-2008, 01:36 PM

Apparently it was a fluke or so. Since now again despite not doing anything I can't launch the games in fullscreen anymore. It's sporadic as hell it seems. Ah well thanks for trying anyways.

**Dalo Harkin** · 06-27-2008, 01:46 PM

the only think that I can think of that would cause something like that is a corrupt OS - or the memory on the GPU is bad

**Goku** · 06-27-2008, 01:47 PM

Hello Sean. I think the problem is with the fact that you are using TeamSpeak. Can you please uninstall it and then try to start the game?

-- Goku

DragonSpawn · 06-27-2008, 02:06 PM

I've had another thought. Could my Acer screen's drivers be the issue? I never updated them. And I used to use the screen for my old computer which used an ATI card. Any possibility this could have an adverse effect?

Also I'll uninstall teamspeak and try it in a bit again and bring back the results.

DragonSpawn · 06-27-2008, 02:16 PM

I ran another interesting test.

I started the game in windowed mode. The standard window is 640x400.

1) So I started playing the game at max settings with 640x400 to see if stress to the system causes anything. No, everything goes smoothly.

2) I open the console in the game, put in "setres" and expand the window. I go to 800x600. Again I play at max settings to see if any stress causes issues. The game played smoothly.

3) I put in setres again and do 1024x768, again all goes and plays smoothly.

4) Then as a last thing I put in the resolution of my desktop, 1280x800. It crashes immediately. It doesn't even allow me to join a match to stress it, the sheer fact that I in the menu changed the resolution to the same as the desktop, which would theoretically make the 1024x768 window fullscreen size. It went boom and did the usual BSOD and reboot.