Warcraft III is killing me! Hangups, memory dumps, WHY!

ski · 01-13-2003, 01:02 PM

All righty, I'm calm enough now

This problem only happens in WC3, not in Windows, and what happens is that every few minutes, the screen will hang for about 2 seconds, then catch up. The problem is that if I'm scrolling the map (just moving the mouse, or in the middle of clicking) it will lock up and go to BLUE SCREEN IN WINDOWS 2000! Unbelievable

Things like "BEGIN MEMORY DUMP" or "UNHANDLED EXCEPTION AT MEMORY LOCATION 000A1FFFFF" (or whatever address it is)... also, I can get kicked back to Windows and a fatal error message will come up saying that there was a memory error and the application will be shut down. Also said somethign about a paging file, which I've increased to well over the recommended size to 4 GB (20% of my main hard drive!)

My roommie just told me that hard drive controllers gave him similar problems, and when he took his out, they were solved. I have 4 hard drives and 2 optical drives (CD-RW and DVD), and a zip drive, so I kinda need the 3-4 additional IDE spots.

I have a Promise ATA controller card, 2 x 256MB PC2100 DDR RAM, Radeon 9500 Pro, ASUS A7A266 mobo, 1.33 ghz athlon.

Should I try updating my mobo's bios? The controller card's bios? Formatting?

If you have any ideas of what I should do, lemme know!

MasterRecca · 01-13-2003, 02:28 PM

you using pirated version of wc3? ... when i used to play the pirated version i used to get them errors on win2k ... after i bought the game and did a fresh install it worked perfectly ... try a fresh install of the game also

ski · 01-14-2003, 11:27 AM

nope, this is a retail copy. I would think that for a more graphical-intense program (like UT2K3 or even the Doom 3 Alpha ^_^), the cpu would be taxed more... I may just try a full format of my main drive...

The Linux bootup screen still comes up at startup! Even though I deleted it from the drive it was on... so all in all, hopefully that'll fix it. Wish me luck!

01-13-2003, 01:02 PM	#1
ski Admiral Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Utah Posts: 5,420	Warcraft III is killing me! Hangups, memory dumps, WHY! All righty, I'm calm enough now This problem only happens in WC3, not in Windows, and what happens is that every few minutes, the screen will hang for about 2 seconds, then catch up. The problem is that if I'm scrolling the map (just moving the mouse, or in the middle of clicking) it will lock up and go to BLUE SCREEN IN WINDOWS 2000! Unbelievable Things like "BEGIN MEMORY DUMP" or "UNHANDLED EXCEPTION AT MEMORY LOCATION 000A1FFFFF" (or whatever address it is)... also, I can get kicked back to Windows and a fatal error message will come up saying that there was a memory error and the application will be shut down. Also said somethign about a paging file, which I've increased to well over the recommended size to 4 GB (20% of my main hard drive!) My roommie just told me that hard drive controllers gave him similar problems, and when he took his out, they were solved. I have 4 hard drives and 2 optical drives (CD-RW and DVD), and a zip drive, so I kinda need the 3-4 additional IDE spots. I have a Promise ATA controller card, 2 x 256MB PC2100 DDR RAM, Radeon 9500 Pro, ASUS A7A266 mobo, 1.33 ghz athlon. Should I try updating my mobo's bios? The controller card's bios? Formatting? If you have any ideas of what I should do, lemme know!

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01-13-2003, 02:28 PM	#2
MasterRecca Lieutenant Junior Grade Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: LBC, CA Posts: 111	you using pirated version of wc3? ... when i used to play the pirated version i used to get them errors on win2k ... after i bought the game and did a fresh install it worked perfectly ... try a fresh install of the game also

01-14-2003, 11:27 AM	#3
ski Admiral Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Utah Posts: 5,420	nope, this is a retail copy. I would think that for a more graphical-intense program (like UT2K3 or even the Doom 3 Alpha ^_^), the cpu would be taxed more... I may just try a full format of my main drive... The Linux bootup screen still comes up at startup! Even though I deleted it from the drive it was on... so all in all, hopefully that'll fix it. Wish me luck!

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