Major lock-up with GZDoom [r129 SVN]

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 13:19

Hi,

I'm not sure where to send this bug report so I thought I'd send it to you as a PM (hope you don't mind, although if you do then please accept my apologies.) I'm running GZDoom with the -nojoy command and I get a really fatal crash after about 5 minutes of playing. I get a lot of green dots appear on the screen and the game completely locks. When I press CTR+ALT+DEL I eventually get a bad quality task manager screen but then it hangs again and the only way to resolve this is to do a hard reset.

This also happens in windowed mode (I figured that if it happened in windowed mode I could easily close the app... but it still locks up Windows with the crash!)

Zdoom works fine, but I currently can't play GZDoom because of this. My suspicion is pointing to some form of video card conflict (I'm using an Nvidia Gforce 8800 GT with 512 megs of ram.)

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 21:46

JUdging from your post over at ZDoom I think that this can be written off as a hardware defect,

Post by **Rachael** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:55

I have to agree with Graf; however, with that in mind, it might be worth you trying to update all your hardware drivers or even doing a complete operating system reinstall (if you use Windows Vista, but have a copy of XP available, try XP first), if you know how. Your best bet is to use another hard drive, if you have one available, instead of using the one you're using now. That way, you can go back to your original setup easily just by swapping the hard drive back again.

If that does not fix the problem, then it is definitely a hardware problem, but finding out what hardware is causing it is not always foolproof.

With computers, what's obvious is not always true. Having been responsible for an entire corporate office of 50 computers, I know this all too well. So before dismissing a problem as a certain thing, try to prove it in as many ways as possible that it's really the problem. This saves you LOTS and LOTS of money in repair.

If you suspect a certain piece of hardware as causing the problem, you will want to make sure it stays completely absent throughout the ENTIRE process, until your new system is completely set up.