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Random Crashes for No Apparent Reason [message #185901] Mon, 16 January 2006 13:38 Go to next message
Dr. Lithius
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Alright, so...

I've got Renegade running, right? Initially, I had it set to where Xfire in-game support was tied to "game2.exe" instead of "game.exe". Once I did that, Renegade would crash on occasion and I wouldn't be able to play it again until after I rebooted.(It would give me an error message of "This program has performed an illegal error as needs to be shut down" every time I'd try and run it again.) So...I changed the link back to "game.exe" in Xfire. This seemed to do the trick, but then just yesterday, the same thing happened during a Marathon game. game2.exe crashed and every time I ran it afterwards, it would give me that error message with the DrWatson Post-Mourtum Error Report Generator(I think that's what it's called) question of "Send" and "Don't Send".

As it stands, I've reinstalled Renegade on this computer from a fresh installation of Windows XP with Service Pack 2 after deleting everything that was in my Renegade directory. I've also tried running just "game2.exe" without RenGuard, but the problem continued. Obviously, there wouldn't've been any excess registry keys to fiddle with, so that's probably not it. But what could it be? If it's any help, I recently installed a new 512MB stick of RAM and a DVD-RW into my machine, one of which has apparently damaged something in my motherboard, forcing my computer to spontaniously reboot every now and then. But the crashes don't coinside with the reboots, so...
Re: Random Crashes for No Apparent Reason [message #186162 is a reply to message #185901] Wed, 18 January 2006 06:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
danpaul88 is currently offline  danpaul88
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if your new RAM is not working 100% then it could be losing or corrupting any data renegade tries to store on it, so when ren comes to retrieve it it causes a crash...

Try taking the extra stick of RAM out and see if it plays normally then.


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Re: Random Crashes for No Apparent Reason [message #186445 is a reply to message #185901] Fri, 20 January 2006 17:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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DrWatson Post-Mourtum Error Report Generator is a virus
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Re: Random Crashes for No Apparent Reason [message #186534 is a reply to message #185901] Sat, 21 January 2006 14:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dr. Lithius
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Uh... DrWatson is the thing Windows XP uses to generate crash reports, I thought. According to this site, in fact, that's exactly what it is. I s'pose next you'll be telling me CTHELPER.EXE is malware, eh? :x(Yes, yes, I know there's a bug where it can use upwards of 90% CPU. But I've only seen that happen once.)

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Re: Random Crashes for No Apparent Reason [message #186597 is a reply to message #185901] Sat, 21 January 2006 22:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Theres gotta be a spyware process with the same name as every windows process out there. I've seen MDM.exe, smss.exe and of course iexplore.exe as spyware/virus process names.

As for your problems, I've experienced the random ren crashes before, and for me, it was definately caused by using that "Renegade Auto Complete" program.

I suppose if you've damaged your motherboard it could be anything..
Re: Random Crashes for No Apparent Reason [message #186608 is a reply to message #185901] Sun, 22 January 2006 07:03 Go to previous message
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There are also certain malware that are known to take that name. Which is why I suggested you visit that site I gave you,.
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