gamin problems...

[loAol]

ok my brothers new dell pc has troubles wiht almost every single game he plays on it, including battlefield, counter-strike, day fo defeat, need for speed, etc. He plays for a while and then at random times the games just crash and show you the 'Send Error Report, Dont Send...'

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/7021/senderror0oi.jpg

i have also encountered this problem wiht counterstrike source but no other games on my pc...
thanks for the help

[RockNRoll]

Details? Specs? DirectX version? GFX driver version? We need specifics please. :D

[loAol]

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz HT 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor

Connect3D Radeon X800GTO 3038 Video Card

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

CORSAIR ValueSelect 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory

I just installed the latest DirectX
..still crashes

[loAol]

oh yea that was my pc...
my brother has the Dell Dimension E310 here for specs (http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_Dimension_E310/4507-3118_7-31594474.html?tag=sub)

[MadPistol]

ummmmmm... integrated graphics. Yuck. You could try getting him an Nvidia or ATI graphics chipset. That may cure your problem.

[loAol]

ok well i got it to play for liek 1 sec and then it crashed an rebooted. after trying once again putting all details of the game on low i got a 'Microsoft Visual C ++ Runtime Error: A duffer corruption has been detected which has corruped the program's internal state. The program can not safely continue and wil now terminate."
so i guess i can forget playing?

[loAol]

ok so my brother wont give up and just keeeps trying...he is able to get into the game and play for liek a minute but then th epc freezes....
any ideas?

[RockNRoll]

Heat?

[loAol]

so adding more fans shall do the trick?

[seanieboy77]

It may not fix it but it might help also I think he is asking, is how hot is your CPU running?
-BTY