Doomsday - unstable?

[!Shaggy!]

I have newest version of Doomsday, patched hexen, heretic and doom2. Sometimes this prog causes my computer to restart suddenly - like after pressing reset button. I'm playing on OpenGL. What is the problem? Should I start playing on Direct3D (if it would help)?

My comp: WINXP, 256Mb RAM, Celeron533MHz, GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8x.

[Wicked Anime Kid]

Probably memory overrun, i had that several times. It just hasn't got enough memory and then it restarts. Get more memory

[Abrax]

Used to happen to me on Freelancer, no probs after I upgraded, it happened when I just come out of a major jumpgate. You shouldnt have any problems there, although I would upgrade the processor (It won't make any difference in jDoom (Doomsday)).

You're main problem would probably be best solved in the Doomsday Kickstart, try changing the amount of memory assigned to Doomsday in the kickstart, from 32Mb to something like 64 or 96Mb. I would'nt recommend assigning over 128Mb though, because WinXp need that much, and you'll either get a crash, or a nasty, slow, page file duuring the game (which will probably be fine in game), but will lag like theres no tomorrow when you quit.

[!Shaggy!]

Nah, changing memory to 96mb doesn't help. I played about 10-15 mins and comp restarted. Computer crashes randomly: sometimes after 10 mins, sometimes after 2 hours playing DoomsDay.

[Tyberious]

have you updated your drivers? Do you have conflict DED files? What does the Doomsday.out file say? (just do a search for it on your hard drive if you can't find it.

[Abrax]

Your comp may be overheating, the CPU protection (or somthing similar) may be kicking in. Your comp should handle Doomsday fine.

[!Shaggy!]

I have had newest detonator (56.72, now I have 56.64); it doesn't help...
I haven't noticed any problems with DED files. It is shown in some way?
Doomsday.out says nothing important (I think).
First are some inits, then for example:

E2M2: The lava pits
Author: Raven Software

Setuplevel: E2M2 (GL Data found)
GL_VERT V2.0
P_SpawnPlayer: spawning player 0, col=0
P_SpawnPlayer: spawning player 0, col=0

and this infos (with E2M3 also) repeats to the end; the last entry is:

E2M3 The River Of Fire
Author: Raven Software

No mentions about errors or such...
I doubt is overheating. Doomsday is the only that crashes this way, other games/progs work well.

[Tyberious]

spyware? Maybe updating some of your hardware might help? Try going into the bios and changing the Agp speed from 8x to 4x and turning off fast writes and turn off side band (or whatever its called) off. Those might help.

[sLydE]

it never hurts to run adaware, spybot s&d and avg anti-virus, and once your done with those, defragment your harddrive. that may solve your issue, but if you do that and it doesn't, tell us

[!Shaggy!]

Sorry for not responding for a long time. I had exams ("matura").

Nah, changing BIOS settings doesn't help. Even changing AGP speed to 2x doesn't help.

My comp isn't connected to Internet, but I ran adaware, spybot and AntiVirenKit. Alexa and one GAIN thingies were found and that's all. It also doesn't help. Doomsday crashed - as usual.*angry* I'm defragmenting my harddrive once per week.

I'll upgrade my comp soon a bit (new mobo and processor), so I hope crashing will stop.

[Tyberious]

are you sure you don't ahve cheap ass ram? I remember I had a cheap ass stick of ram and I got blue screens of death, crashes galore etc and once I took it out and replaced it everything worked fine.

[!Shaggy!]

hmm... i can't tell much about my ram. just simple stick:
PC133 SDRAM
32Mx64 256MB
DIMM Module
and in corner: B6981Ab
maybe it's cheap ass ram, but in other games i don't have such problems.

btw. i cleaned a ton of dust on my ram...