Fleet Ops causes systemcrash?

posted on January 16th, 2011, 3:39 pm

I had this two times to day. My whole system got frozen and I had to unplug mainpower to get it working again.

I don't know how it happend or why, but it happend after 20minutes when playing Fleet Ops with Dominion as player...
I haven't changed something in the Game, or installed something new on my laptop.

I was playing on a self-made map. Testing it...
Can someone please tell me, that it is not Fleet Ops that make a problem here? 

posted on January 16th, 2011, 3:50 pm

describe frozen? absolutely no response on screen? no blue screen, no error etc

that sounds like your graphics driver crashed. try updating your graphics drivers. or downgrading them lol. i find that the latest graphics drivers for my chip are worse than the oem ones.

posted on January 16th, 2011, 3:54 pm

frozen screen. nothing was moving anymore, not even my cursor.
Sound was going into a loop of 0,2 sec ...

Strg+Alt+Entf (Crlt+Alt+Del), did not work, to.

I will try it again, to see if it crashes again not.
We will see.

If it crash again, I will search for updates of my grafics driver, but that should be up-to-date...

posted on January 16th, 2011, 3:58 pm

this does sound like the graphics driver has crashed. try downgrading your graphics drivers, look on the oem disc for drivers, they may work better.

what os do you have? i find that on vista and 7 (more so on 7) that if the graphics driver crashes, windows will just restart it and continue. while on xp it just hangs.

posted on January 16th, 2011, 4:01 pm

it could have something to do with your map if it is self made.I had a similar problem when i first started making maps

[Desertyrain Minrok]

posted on January 16th, 2011, 4:45 pm

Last edited by Desertyrain Minrok on January 16th, 2011, 4:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

FAIL - I crashed again. 

*trying to open that §$$%&§$" escape Pod*

So I checked my system-log files - and what did I found? - Windows made an update (without telling me that).
Ok, here is a theorie WHY I crashed 3 times:
The map I made is really huge 40000x40000 with lots of object on it. 
Maybe the map is not to big for my grafic-card, but if the ships flying around on it while playing could that after some time. Like the little drop that is to much in the end. 

I'll try to find a update for my drivers, or just down-grading it...
Or someone sent me a borg-drone to assimilate that damn grafics driver...      

edit: Myles:

I'm using Windows7 x64 Ultimate.