Reboots and crashes.

[londaran]

I just started trying to play today. Trying being the key word. I can't play for more than a half hour until ryzom crashes or reboots my computer. I updated my video card drivers, and also tried playing with everything on low/disabled. That seemed to stop the rebooting, but it still crashed often.

Specs are: Athlon Xp 3000+, 1gig ram, Radeon x800 pro (6.10 catalyst)

[Zerlin]

Check your system's cooling fans. Make sure they are dust free and that the fans rotate smoothly when powered down and you push them with your finger. You may want to consider a new cooler for your video card like Arctic Cooler. Very inexpensive and effective. I had to buy one for my 9800 XT and now get more performance than before.

[londaran]

Thats all fine. I usualy have my video card OC'ed (its @ default speed ATM) and it runs everything including Flight Simulator X pretty well with everything maxxed except autogen (CPU bound on that). WOW runs fine all maxxed out. City of heroes, Half Life, all fine.

Gunna try fiddling with some of the driver settings, maybe AF or something is causing it.

[londaran]

Well, after screwing around with settings all morning I decided to take a closer look at my cpu heatsink. I popped it off and found it had alot more dust on it than I could see before. I cleaned it up and put it back on, booted up ryzom and actually got to play for about 3 hours straight. Eventually though it did reboot. This time it wasn't out of nowhere though, the game acted a little strange just before. I was making sap crystals, right when someone sent me a tell, and suddenly I couldn't click on anything, but the cursor still moved. 10 seconds later it rebooted.

Its weird how this game can heat up my cpu more than anything else, even seti@home.

[lukazade]

ryzom isn't really computer friendly lol, it sucks up resources to help power the resource pops in-game, everytime someone prospects another computer breaks down >.< doh!

(personally, i have a >.< computer runs kinda ok

same specs as yours, but x600, and most games work fine, there is a fan broke in my pc, but thats nothing when i jus stuck 2 more fans in there lol, it doesnt break down, unless i am playing winamp & ryzom (them two 2gether dont mix, use ingame mp3 player) at the same time, when i alt + tab out of the game.... >.< it goes)

[londaran]

I have a new theory. I did some tests with prime95 while monitoring the cpu temp, and it wasn't getting very hot at all (44C MAX). Now I'm thinking its a powersupply issue. I have an antec 350watt PSU, powering 3 HDs, an athlon xp 3000+, a radeon x800 (which has an extra power connector),a nd a dvd burner. I've never had any problems before, but maybe ryzom is stressing more things at once causing power usage to go too high?

I'm going to try disconnecting my linux drive, and see if that helps. The other two I need to run ryzom.

[londaran]

Looks like that did it. haven't had a single crash since I did that. I guess my next upgrade is gunna be a power supply

[uruloki]

Possibly, can you verify one thing though?

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320299 and make sure yours isn't configured to automatically restart.

[uruloki]

Looks like that did it. haven't had a single crash since I did that. I guess my next upgrade is gunna be a power supply

I can recommend Enermax.

The problem with certain PSUs is that they suck when it comes to the signal they have to deliver. They might be able to provide some peak power consumption, but a sustained high can be difficult.

[londaran]

Possibly, can you verify one thing though?

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320299 and make sure yours isn't configured to automatically restart.

Yes it was enabled.