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12 March 2002, 08:05 PM

kiaz

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recently installed xp and afterloading a couple of games,tomb raider 5,grandprix3 etc,it keeps coming up with,Warning a fatal error has occured and will now close this program.
Does any one know why????
Any help much appreciated

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12 March 2002, 08:17 PM

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Which program?

Whichever one it is, try running it in compatability mode.

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12 March 2002, 08:31 PM

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On tomb raider5 and Grand prix3 and recently its done it when the computer has just fired up.
I have tomb raider3 loaded and that runs ok!!

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12 March 2002, 08:43 PM

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Could be virtually anything. Try the usual steps :-

Windows update.
Graphics / Sound card etc driver updates.
Game patches.

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12 March 2002, 10:07 PM

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Question...

Are you running an NVidia based graphics card ?

My experience with XP - must be installed from scratch, eg. don't bother upgrading from a previous version of WIndows.

For some strange reason my XP crashed continuously, then after much searching I enabled the memory check option in the BIOS which showed I had a faulty DDR memory simm

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