CTD's
 

My game keeps crashing its not all the time but sometimes when theres a ship nearby and I change my station. It coast me a Battleship! :damn:

TM 1.6

Specs?

Overheating maybe?

...or did you just want someone to sympathize?

Ive never had this problem before.

BTW:
Pentem 4 prosesser
2 gigs of ram
Radeon X1650(ATI)
Lodes of hardrive

The suggestion that worked for me was...

Take off the cover and blow the dust off the GPU heatsink. Try running without the case side panel to see if the improved airflow allows the GPU heatsink to maintain roomish temperature. If the game crashes again, touch the GPU heatsink and see if it feels hot. If it's not ouchey hot then you've at least ruled out overheating... if it doesn't crash anymore, guess what.

Besides the overheating, lets not rule out a faulty PSU, or one that's on its way out. It would'nt be unheard of. Just a thought.;)

As the previous posts imply, it's likely you have a hardware or driver failure in your machine. The game is very stable.

If your other games do not CTD you might ask yourself if SH is more demanding than your other games. As an example, I have many games but two in particular heat up my machine more. One way I know this is I have 6 thermally controlled fans in my machine. The hotter it runs the faster these babies roar. SHIV sets them all screaming. I have the thermocouple of one of the fans attached to my video card GPU, another to my chipset heat sink.

If you never get CTDs at the training scenarios when you first start, then that probably rules out drivers because there are one or more ships in view immediately. If it takes time to get the CTD, then heat is a very high probability. That or unstable mod that requires certain ships to show up.

As has been mentioned, a weak power supply that is in the process of going out will fail at high demand. Gaming machines should have the most powerful power supply you can afford, especially if you have a high end graphics card and/or fast CPU.
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