Net/Game Crash/Freezing Problems

[DBoy1612]

Well, here's a weird one. I'll explain from the beginning.

Yesterday, for some reason both my Skype and my Browsers (IE and Firefox) lost connection out of random, they just stopped working. Though, Xfire was still running as I was able to keep conversations going without problems. I rebooted, and everything was fine after that.

Now, today, I was playing as RM, was on and off the game for hours (closing and opening like I usually do), and just as I dock to leave the house my game crashes to desktop instantly. Ya, it's happened before, normal FL bug that happens every now and then. But now, when I tried to go back in my computer freezes completely, Skype calls dies, Xfire dies, and music stops playing, everything was gone... So I rebooted, tried again, same problem.

I reinstalled Freelancer, same problem... Now, I began to think it was more then just Freelancer. So I tried loading up Counter Strike, and Half Life 2. Those didn't freeze my computer, but applications themselves froze forcing me to reboot again whenever I tried to connect to a sever.

Now, the only things I've changed by hand between yesterday and now is my Windows theme. I went from the custom Vista one (that has been running for months), to Windows classic (That comes with the damn computer!) as my Computer runs faster with that. I have tried changing it back, but nada... Another guess of mine that Windows Updates downloaded some crap that caused this (I will be turning it off once I figure out how to fix it.)

Now, everything else seems to be working fine. Firefox, IE, Xfire, Skype, all works... Except any online game. I have disabled my Firewall, Anti Virus, and pretty much shut down everything possible and tried playing a game.

Nothing I can think of works, any help is greatly appreciated.

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What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^

[Othman]

Have you tried making a format and a fresh new reinstallation of Windows and everything from the beginning? It could be helpful sometimes..

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On the uncharted lagoons of anguish, I sail with a canoe made of my sins.

[DBoy1612]

No chance that I'm reformatting... There has to be an easier way to fix this then wiping my hard drive.

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Retired Admin
What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^

[McNeo]

hrm.... does the same thing happen on a different user? I mean it would only be a temporary fix, but if a different user works...

but then again, thats just a guess.

You could do a virus scan, too... they always help...

[DBoy1612]

hrm.... does the same thing happen on a different user?

It worked! How the... Right, if it runs in a different user account. There must be something running on my current one. *goes to dig through startup files*

Thanks, Connor.:D

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Retired Admin
What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^

[Horon]

msconfig was my friend here. If you got a virus or something that cant be shut down i always make a bat file like so:

@Echo OFF
echo This will kill all specified programs
kill application1.exe
kill application2.exe
echo Program kill completed
pause

I use that after tracking down the suspect programs with the task manager. @Echo OFF just keeps you from seeing the actual commands in the file. echo puts text in the console, kill ends the application with that name,
and pause pauses the process till you press a key. In this case, the program ends after you press the key because there was no other commands.

EDIT: Ok if you could understand that you deserve 50 million credits. I was working on a program to end suspect files when the TM wont let you, but I stopped. Maybe you could use it Dboy if stuff wont close.

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While being quite funny, your sig was the biggest one i've ever seen so far. No more than 700x250 please. ~utrack
http://pastebin.com/SYQXBufs

[DBoy1612]

@Echo OFF - Disables commands from showing up
echo This will kill all specified programs - Displays the message "This will kill all specified programs" on the window.
kill application1.exe - Ends application1.exe
kill application2.exe - Ends application2.exe
echo Program kill completed - Displays the message "echo Program kill completed"
pause - Stops the script but keeps the black command box open

It should really be "exit" at the end, but hey, that's just me. (Do I get 50 mil?:P)

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Anyway! Thank you Connor!!! You gave me an idea on what may be running, went to check, and POOF! I'm back in business.:D

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Retired Admin
What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^

[Horon]

Actually there is no exit command needed in DOS. The program terminates when there is nothing else to do. The pause is there to let you review whats on screen, if the programs terminated, and let you end the program via a keypress.

EDIT: Well thats the case in Windows 2000 at least.
EDIT: Well if I had 50 million to give away then SURE! :P

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While being quite funny, your sig was the biggest one i've ever seen so far. No more than 700x250 please. ~utrack
http://pastebin.com/SYQXBufs

[McNeo]

Glad to know I did somthing useful to help a person who knows more about programming/computers than I do:D.

So what was running in your user, Dboy? I dont want the same thing to happen to this computer:P.

[DBoy1612]

Well, alright... Let's bring this thread back to life shall we. Why? Because it's happening again...

What I did last time: There are processes on my computer that only run on one windows account, I managed to figure out what they were and shut them down. But now, I'm having problems again.

Last night I did Spyware and Virus scans, ya found a couple of bugs and got rid of them. But, again, I'm still having problems. I'm beginning to think it may be my CPU being stupid like usual. Anyone ever hear of your CPU locking up when trying to connect to a game server?:dry:

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What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^