1 Topic by FSDev| TALON (edited by FSDev| TALON 2009-11-03 13:12:40)

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Topic: PC restart on quiting First Strike

Bug from someone over on ModDB, hadn't heard of this issue occuring before, so thought be good to throw it out there and see if anyone had come across it before, and had a fix to solve the issue.


Zafrin wrote:

I got a problem. My PC restarts everytime I quit the FS mod. When I play normal BF2142 its okay but when I play FS and then I exit the game, my monitor turns black and PC suddenly restarts itself. Any possibilities why?(!!!)

CPU AMD Athlon 4800+ (non-overclocked)
GCard (passive) ATI EAH 3650 Silent Magic
Motherb. ASUS M2-N
RAM 2Gb
OS Windows XP (all updates installed)
FSmod ver. 1.40

Running on High details only the dynamic shadows, anti-aliasing and dynamic light is on very low.

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Re: PC restart on quiting First Strike

There is no logical reason whatsoever, or any links I can imagine, which would cause FS to crash his PC only on exit.  if somethign went wrong on install, he'd have noticed it by it crashing when he started the game, not when he quit.   It's most likely a problem with his harware, or the software that goes with his hardware has issues with FS in some way or form.

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3 Reply by FSDev| TALON (edited by FSDev| TALON 2009-11-03 13:35:19)

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Re: PC restart on quiting First Strike

Yeah, I was thinking that, perhaps an issue with a faulty graphics card? Or like you say, driver compatibility. That could possibly cause a crash. Might work fine with some games but not with others.

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Re: PC restart on quiting First Strike

First thing to do is check of he's running updated drivers. *Could* be a graphics card issue I guess, maybe theres some sort fo spike when he quits causing the temp to peak momentarily long enough for it to cause a reboot. It is afterall a passive cooled card, never the best choice for pc gaming.

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