Computer Crashing Issues

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Pumpkincats wrote on 2015-05-11 02:24

When I'm in Taillteann, Tara, Corrib Valley, Sliab Cuilin, Blago Prairie, and Belvast I risk my entire computer crashing at a random time. This is especially true with shadow missions, I'll enter them and crash a few moments later. Usually when this happens my Mabinogi freezes and seconds later my screen goes black, my computer being completely unresponsive to any actions on the keyboard or mouse. I don't know if anyone else has/have had these issues, but any help is appreciated.
Rydian wrote on 2015-05-11 03:10

Does this happen if you play windowed?
Yoorah wrote on 2015-05-11 04:47

I'd guess you either have failing hardware or Nexon's anti-cheat [S]malware[/S] software is having a conflict with one of your drivers.

The first thing I'd check is if your RAM is OK: Windows 7 has a built-in memory diagnostic tool called... Windows Memory Diagnostic. Locate it by typing it into the search field and run it. It'll reboot your computer and do the test. Default values should be fine. Results are a bit harder to find; you have to dig through Windows system logs for them. xd

From Computer Management (again, use Search to launch this), navigate here and do a Find on "memory" or something to check the log:

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Aside from that, it wouldn't hurt for you to check if all of your drivers are up to date. These are two good things you should be checking regardless of whether it actually solves your problem!

Running sfc /verifyonly from command prompt (might need to run it with admin rights) to check system files integrity wouldn't hurt, either.

I suppose you could also analyze the Windows crash dump with WinDbg or something, which could give a hint as to what's causing the crash, but that can be a bit of a pain to set up.
Pumpkincats wrote on 2015-05-14 23:39

Does this happen if you play windowed?

I've crashed in both windowed and full screen mode v.v

I'd guess you either have failing hardware or Nexon's anti-cheat malware software is having a conflict with one of your drivers.

The first thing I'd check is if your RAM is OK: Windows 7 has a built-in memory diagnostic tool called... Windows Memory Diagnostic. Locate it by typing it into the search field and run it. It'll reboot your computer and do the test. Default values should be fine. Results are a bit harder to find; you have to dig through Windows system logs for them. xd

From Computer Management (again, use Search to launch this), navigate here and do a Find on "memory" or something to check the log:
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Aside from that, it wouldn't hurt for you to check if all of your drivers are up to date. These are two good things you should be checking regardless of whether it actually solves your problem!

Running sfc /verifyonly from command prompt (might need to run it with admin rights) to check system files integrity wouldn't hurt, either.

I suppose you could also analyze the Windows crash dump with WinDbg or something, which could give a hint as to what's causing the crash, but that can be a bit of a pain to set up.

I'll try some of this out and hopefully it'll help. Thankies >w<