Continual Overheating Crash

Gideon_Slack · 02-07-2010, 10:41 AM

Hi. I just started playing the game again after a long absence. Everything has been fine the last few days. But starting tonight about 2 hours ago, I started getting pretty constant crashes: about once every ten minutes.

On rebooting, the error message said these were because of CPU overheating.

I downloaded a program to limit my fps (to 45) but I still got a crash because of overheating.

My Specs:

Pentium 4 (3.8 GHz)
Nvidia Geoforce 9500 GT
3 Gigs DDR Ram.
Windows XP SP 3

I know P4's have a reputation for running hot. But the only other game I had overheating problems in, I was able to solve them by limiting fps. Not sure what is happening here. Is this just a matter of shutting my computer down for a while?

02-07-2010, 10:41 AM	#1
Gideon_Slack Master Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 264	Continual Overheating Crash Hi. I just started playing the game again after a long absence. Everything has been fine the last few days. But starting tonight about 2 hours ago, I started getting pretty constant crashes: about once every ten minutes. On rebooting, the error message said these were because of CPU overheating. I downloaded a program to limit my fps (to 45) but I still got a crash because of overheating. My Specs: Pentium 4 (3.8 GHz) Nvidia Geoforce 9500 GT 3 Gigs DDR Ram. Windows XP SP 3 I know P4's have a reputation for running hot. But the only other game I had overheating problems in, I was able to solve them by limiting fps. Not sure what is happening here. Is this just a matter of shutting my computer down for a while? __________________ Bartle Test of Gamer Psychology Last edited by Gideon_Slack; 02-07-2010 at 11:25 AM.

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