My graphiccard died with style

[Furin]

So I was in the middle of my awesome irish campaign, two turns before the 2nd dark age, at the end of the AI turn when I heard the crying death sound of a spy, and in the same moment my system crashed .

Next boot gave me artifacts and crashes so I was all "crapapples..."
That was fun.

Now a couple of hours later I am typing this with more ram and a new card. It's so much fun when you go buy hardware and know that you can't afford it due to unemployment...

PS: It's not DLV's fault, my card was just old and dusty I guess.

[Taiji]

Oh man, sorry to hear that

... although I do kind of wish it would happen to me, I need an excuse like that to spend money I haven't got too

[covjen]

I know this is not related to DLV but I ges that my graphic card is near to that point. System crash and before that picture tremble. Then only rebooting helps but if I dont install any program except WIN it works fine and I use this comp for internet only. But if I try only installing Office after some time it goes wild again. Could it be graphic card? I use my laptop for DLV but it is not the same... any idea graphic or RAM

[Furin]

It could be, my pre card-death symptoms were:

- 1 blue screen (1 month ago)
- a few, rare unexpected reboots (during the last 6 weeks)
- 1 superfetch error (might not be related but the first I encountered) (1 week ago, resolved by emptying the cache and disabling the feature)
- red artefact stripes over my screen that went away after I rebooted (1st with the superfetch error, then, always after the card death)

and finally

- death scream

[eatme]

It always sux to see your PC get a heartattack.
But then on the other hand, it's fun to get upgrades even due to that =)

I know this is not related to DLV but I ges that my graphic card is near to that point. System crash and before that picture tremble. Then only rebooting helps but if I dont install any program except WIN it works fine and I use this comp for internet only. But if I try only installing Office after some time it goes wild again. Could it be graphic card? I use my laptop for DLV but it is not the same... any idea graphic or RAM

It's common to have sudden reboots and BSODs due to faulty graphics card. More often than not, the old card can't handle the load anymore, its core heats up over the limit and hence the glitches.

If you get lotsa lag, trembles and low fps, that's more likely RAM problem.

[TMSKILZ]

So I was in the middle of my awesome irish campaign, two turns before the 2nd dark age, at the end of the AI turn when I heard the crying death sound of a spy, and in the same moment my system crashed .

Next boot gave me artifacts and crashes so I was all "crapapples..."
That was fun.

Now a couple of hours later I am typing this with more ram and a new card. It's so much fun when you go buy hardware and know that you can't afford it due to unemployment...

PS: It's not DLV's fault, my card was just old and dusty I guess.

Furin quick question, where do you reside? USA or outside USA?

[Arbitrary Crusader]

So I was in the middle of my awesome irish campaign, two turns before the 2nd dark age, at the end of the AI turn when I heard the crying death sound of a spy, and in the same moment my system crashed .

Next boot gave me artifacts and crashes so I was all "crapapples..."
That was fun.

Now a couple of hours later I am typing this with more ram and a new card. It's so much fun when you go buy hardware and know that you can't afford it due to unemployment...

PS: It's not DLV's fault, my card was just old and dusty I guess.

what type of card is was it?

[Kjertesvein]

I use a Thinkpad laptop.... Not the best choice for a high end graphic game,

[Furin]

I am from and live in Austria and it was a Gforce8800GTX. Why do you ask, was there a solar flare over the US a while ago

[TMSKILZ]

I am from and live in Austria and it was a Gforce8800GTX. Why do you ask, was there a solar flare over the US a while ago

Hehehe no of course not. I just bought the ATI 5850 card for my future gaming PC I'm going to build.
Furin when you have the chance, PM me, I'd like to discuss an important matter w/ thee.

[Omar Nelson B.]

I was all "crapapples..."

That's not what you said...........oh hamburgers!

I shorted out my motherboard once. I think I used enough curses to fill a small car.