Hi Tomega,
Great news! Thanks for taking the time to post back the results. :-)
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Tomega Wrote:
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| Ok have an update for you guys and wanted to thank you for your help because
| ultimately your suggestions led to what appears to be the cure.
| first I want to appoligise for an erronious impression I left you with, and
| that was the service pak 3. Service pak 3 that I had gotten from microsoft
| wasn't for windows xp pro, it was for office which had been released.
| Ok it would appear after going through a lot of files I found that even
| though my video card driver was on my system it wasn't running, so I
| reinstalled it and after about 8 hours of continuous play on both previously
| mentioned games everything seems to working right. I'm not sure that without
| your insistance that the driver was at fault that I would have looked any
| farther then just to see that the driver was installed on my computer. So
| thanks
| Tomega
|
|
| "Tomega" wrote:
|
|| I haven't played many games for lengthy periods of time, So I don't know for
|| sure if my problem is with all games or just the few I'm going to mention.
|| When I play WarCraft 3 Reign of Chaos, or SpellForce (Platinum Edition)
|| Both games the campaign version, after about an hour of play I get booted
|| from the games with an error that says thread trying to access a restricted
|| area. I click ok and that's it game over in order to continue play I have to
|| restart the game and continue from last saved point, which is becoming
|| extremely frustrating.
|| In case it makes a difference here's my system.
|| AMD Athlon(tm) 64 bit proc 4000+ speed 2412 MHz
|| C: drive 300 gig
|| G: drive 150 gig
|| 2 gig ram
|| video card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU
|| Sound card Realtech AC97 Audio
|| Disc in LITE-On CD-RW SOHR-5239V
|| I'm running windows xp pro 32 pack 3
|| I just had the puter set up in november so I can't believe that any of my
|| drivers are out of date.
|| I'm not having a overheating problem 2 temp control fans have only kicked on
|| 1 time and it wasn't during game play.
|| I'm lost any help would bw appreciated.
