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WoW And My PC

WayneLigon

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WoW name: Icemane, Guild: Enduring Nobility on Feathermoon

OK, I know some EN people were going to try Deadmines, perhaps, this weekend. Like to join you, but I can't. I'm not starting this damn game until I see if I ever get a response back from tech support. WoW seems to be causing a system-wide instability in my machine. I got like four Error 132's yesterday afternoon while trying to play and after that my machine started acting weird again, as it described in a couple other threads I posted in this area. Blue screens and spontaneous rebooting, mainly, memory allocation errors, etc.

No virus, no adware. I've run memcheck86+ and Microsoft's memory checker on it to no avail. I've updated video and audio drivers, I've followed the instructions Blizzard has up on their site to no avail. All that the support board has on Error 132 is 'we know about it and we're working on it' That was in November, presumably during the beta, and no further Blizzard staff response has been forthcoming, even though that's the number one responded-to item on the board.

I posted my latest error log, which quickly went to like page 10+; maybe I'm a stupid person but even accounting for MMPORG players being pretty whiny if I was a Blizzard executive and saw that kind of activity on a support board for my game, I'd crap a gold brick.

I'm normally a patient person when it comes to computers. I work with the things every day. I've never seen something affect a machine like this. I'm not a person to go 'OMFG Is Brokken!!!111', but damn it, it is. Something specific to this particular game took my brand new PC built for gaming and turned it into a paperweight for a week until I could pay someone to fix it, and now it's probably going to do it again.

I mailed off the error logs and a copy of the system info that DxDiag gave me to the support staff. No response yet. If y'all don't see me soon - or, perhaps, ever again, this is why.
 

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I assume that youve checked the error 1323 sticky on the Blizz technical forums.

All I can guess is that if your physical memory is ok it might be related to the mem freq settings-or your BIOS settings. It might be related to BIOS drivers. What chipset are you running? It could be that you have a memory board that doesnt like the program and has difficulty writing it to memory.

I know that doesnt help but if mem tests are ok changing freq in BIOS may be a way to troubleshoot.
 

driver8 said:
I assume that youve checked the error 1323 sticky on the Blizz technical forums.

All I can guess is that if your physical memory is ok it might be related to the mem freq settings-or your BIOS settings. It might be related to BIOS drivers. What chipset are you running? It could be that you have a memory board that doesnt like the program and has difficulty writing it to memory.

I know that doesnt help but if mem tests are ok changing freq in BIOS may be a way to troubleshoot.

Yeah, I've seen that sticky. I'll check the bios settings.
 

The newest patch is a wonderful thing, but it seems to have introduced a bunch of bugs that I'm hoping are fixed with tomorrow's maintenance. I think I have a workaround for the stuck in place (it only happens to my druid and seems to break when I feral charge).

Good luck getting that fixed, come back to us, and rest assured--there are always plenty of people wanting to do Deadmines.
 

I'm just wondering how such a thing wrong with the game can have such a far-ranging effect on my PC when the game isn't running. I could understand the game crashing out with it's own error message. I could even understand the game causing the machine to bluescreen. What I can't understand is how it can make those things happen when the game itself isn't even running and the machine has been rebooted several times. Yesterday the machine worked fine all day until I started City of Heroes, a game that has worked perfect since the day I bought the machine. Five minutes into playing it, the machine stops running. Doesn't reboot, doesn't blue screen, it just stops, like the hard drive stopped spinning for some reason. The event monitor NEVER shows anything wrong with the machine at all. Not even an Info entry. I just don't understand.
 


Have you tried checking the harddrive or (if you have the luxery) changing harddrives? Since windows always writes stuff to virtual memory having a defective drive head or bad sectors can cause some weird errors to pop-up in windows and games.
 

Done that.

I got my response back from Blizzrd today which is as I suspected a list of things to try that they've already posted. I will try the 'run in opengl and nosound' option next, though it doesn't say what's wrong if that works and how to make it work the right, correct way.

So far I've tried to 'delete some folders' approach. That didn't work.

Thinking of buying an Apple if it means I can forget all these damn driver problems. That's not something I should ever, ever have to worry about, period. I swear if these online games were available on console, I'd ditch the entire PC gaming idea right now. It's just too complicated and bothersome.
 

Ditch the PC! There is still good in you father! I can sense it. Bill Gates has not yet managed to extinguish it in you entirely!
 

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