Games Crashing - PC help!

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Hey, I'm having some problesm- I bought my laptop last fall and haven't had problems until recently. No matter what kind of game I play it crashes to my desktop with no warning or explanation after about an hour into it. Games that played just fine earlier are now crashing and I'm well within the specs of the games.

For example, Rome:Total War played fine on my laptop (I played it to completion) but now games that aren't even close to R:TW spec wise are now crashing.

It's odd.

― brownie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

how are they crashing ?

fan broke?

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

hmm, just crashing to desktop. Disappearing basically. I can restart the game (after losing all the info obviously).

I don't know if the fan is broke!

― brownie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

so it is just games? is everything else working fine?

― Ste, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it seems to be just games (although my free trial AOL disconnects randomly- but I figured it was just AOL being AOL).

― brownie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going ot say some lame obvious things like "make sure your drivers are updated" because even though they're lame, they're often the case. esp. video card drivers. what kind of vid card is it?

― Will M., Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I was wondering about the drivers myself, Will. I have never updated them and yet I could complete Rome:Total War. I'll try that though because that is the standard answer.

I have some lame Intel graphics media accelerator "chipset". I realize this laptop is not a gaming machine but the games I'm running are not graphics intensive. I mean strat-o-matic PC football is basically a board game (2D number crunching) and that crashed on me last night.

― brownie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

if it's windows you could try looking at the system event log after a crash. can't think of anything else, sorry

― abanana, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

also, since it's just games, try start->run dxdiag and running all the tests

― abanana, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

not sure how to look at the system event log?

I guess I'll update the drivers and also check MSCONFIG.

thanks everyone.

― brownie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

right click my computer, select manage, go to event viewer

― abanana, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

check your CPU temperature in BIOS or in windows if you have fancy motherboard chipset. too hot = bad. i used to get sporadic crashing on my old desktop, but only during the summer. new fans fixed it.

― g-kit, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

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