Spring freezes my computer

Spring freezes my computer

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marvin
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Joined: 22 Oct 2005, 10:05

Spring freezes my computer

Post by marvin »

My computer completely locks up after playing spring for about 10-15 minutes. It's been like this since the first time I ever played it, about version 0.5, and still crashes with the latest version.
Computer spec:
2.4ghz Pentium IV.
512MB RAM
256MB Nvidia Geforce 6600 (with latest drivers)

Even if put the res down to 800*600 and turn all the fancy graphics off, it still crashes. Spring uses practically 100% of the CPU and stays that way until it overheats and freezes up, forcing me to do a hard reset.

Here is a picture of ten Pee-Wees running about. It's running the commanders script, so it can't even be the AI messing up.
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Can anyone help?
Please?
Orochimaru
Posts: 2
Joined: 02 Mar 2006, 11:00

Post by Orochimaru »

Exactly the same happens to me :(
I realy want to know a solution for it
patmo98
Posts: 188
Joined: 09 Jan 2006, 17:51

Post by patmo98 »

Orochimaru wrote:Exactly the same happens to me :(
I realy want to know a solution for it
Most game will always leave your CPU usage at 100%. I whould speculate that the problem isn't that the CPU usage is 100%. If you think that 100% CPU usage is the problem try running a simpeler program that uses 100% of the CPU. Just about any free game that isn't turn based should work.
I whould guess that your graphics card is faulty and ever since .5 spring has overtaxed your graphics card. I had a faulty graphics card that whould work fine until I ran almost anything that required the 3D features. Then it would Bule Screen.
patmo98
Posts: 188
Joined: 09 Jan 2006, 17:51

Post by patmo98 »

Orochimaru wrote:Exactly the same happens to me :(
I realy want to know a solution for it
Most game will always leave your CPU usage at 100%. I whould speculate that the problem isn't that the CPU usage is 100%. If you think that 100% CPU usage is the problem try running a simpler program that uses 100% of the CPU. Just about any free game that isn't turn based should work.
I whould guess that your graphics card is faulty and ever since .5 spring has overtaxed your graphics card. I had a faulty graphics card that whould work fine until I ran almost anything that required the 3D features. Then it would Bule Screen.
Orochimaru
Posts: 2
Joined: 02 Mar 2006, 11:00

Post by Orochimaru »

Found a solution: I had windows xp media edition and when I installed the normal windows xp pro, the game worked normal
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