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In 3v3 games, I've had like 5 computer crashes over the last week or two. They happen usually 10-15 minutes in, and Ages either dumps to desktop or just locks up so I have to ctl-alt-del out. Seems to be OK in 2v2 or 1v1, and my network connection is still fine. I don't know of anything particular I'm doing at the moment of the crash.

The only change I know of is that it's been since TAD. Is there a known issue or a bugs forum someone knows about like on ES or Age Sanctuary?

I really like 3v3 games and hate to just give them up, but I hate dumping on my teammates too. :(

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I'm not sure of any known bugs, can you list your hardware and settings? It may be something to do with that. Have you noticed it is on any particular maps?
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Just happened again. Very frustrating. Map was Indonesia (have they all been TAD??)

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Dell DIM 9100, 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 3 GB RAM
RADEON X600 256MB HyperMemory
OS is XP Prof, service pack 2

I can't say for sure, but it seems like maybe when I fat-finger a key combination around ctl-shift, like maybe hit windows button, it locks up bad
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Hmm, hitting the windows button shouldn't cause it to crash. I would suggest that it is your graphics card. Try disabling the Anti-Aliasing in your graphic card options.
If this doesn't work, then try lowering your in-game graphics settings and see if this helps.
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Hi Indy..

I had a problem with comp crashing also..
I discovered that I had the speed set to high on my graphics card.
I adjusted the speed from 8X to 4X and now I never crash.

That may not be the problem but like Strokey said it may be a G card problem.

If the speed adjustment doesn't help or is not applicable.
then go through your settings and shut or lower each one, one at a time, basically process of elimination.

Hope that helps.. BUG
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Knock on wood. I turned everything down - it looks pretty funny now like Warcraft 2 :roll: - but I got through 3 full games tonight with no crash.

Hope it keeps up.

By the way - I can see more clearly what's going on and my mouse is more responsive. There might be something to this super-low graphics mode. 8O
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Did you try playing just disabling the AA on your graphics card? Also, once you find you can get through games ok, start adjusting settings little by little. There are a few specific areas in the graphics settings that work the graphics card hardest so you should be able to get them back up a little.
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[quote=""StrokeyBlofeld""]Did you try playing just disabling the AA on your graphics card? Also, once you find you can get through games ok, start adjusting settings little by little. There are a few specific areas in the graphics settings that work the graphics card hardest so you should be able to get them back up a little.[/quote]

When I went in to look, AA was already off. I turned off various accelerations in my graphics card, but they all caused unacceptable performance issues (e.g. mouse only visible 50% of the time, etc.) I was reduced to turning everything to low in the game, plus refresh down to 50 Hz, 16-bit color, etc. Runs snappy now - 4 games down (fingers crossed) - so I'm afraid to mess with it. :(
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Just had another crash tonight. About 15 games in a row without though. Hope it was just a thing. Gonna replace router first - that's a cheap step and it's old.
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