Game Closing Randomly

Question

I realize that this has been brought up before but none of the other forums have seemed to work, anyway, when I am playing a full screen game such as World of Warcraft of Battle Field 2 the game will close to the desktop with saying anything.   I have updated my video card drivers, same with sound card and DirectX , I have contacted technical support for the games and got no where. I recently got a new hard drive, I have plenty of memory, its not over heating and its getting pleanty of power.   On top of all this I just wiped my entire computer and reformated (to the same OS Windows Media), I made sure nothing was installed such as antivirus or firewall, just to see if it had been another program and still see the problem. I have heard that it could be corrupted RAM, I tried to check as far as I could but the only program I found for that did not work, does anyone know another way to check this. Last if thats not the problem what should I do, I plan on reformating to Pro when I get the disk but should I even bother replacing my video card its an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 512Mb, when I check thier website they had absolutly nothing to help with the problem.

Noxo · Answer

Have you tried turning the User Account Control off? It did a lot of weird things when I had it on like that. You can access it in the Control Panel-> User Accounts. And if you want to run tests on your ram you can boot to your diagnostics by pressing F12 when the computer starts up on the dell logo screen and then selecting boot to utility partition. If you have a lot of time, run the extended test.

Sparton2090 · Answer

I just tried and it said Utility Partician unavailable it gave me the option to retry or go into the settings or something but that just lead me into the BIOS, any idea what caused that?

ae38cb5bb8b0410 · Answer

How much RAM do you have? Your video card is only 128MB dedicated ram. So if your system is configured at 512 ram, your system memory is 384MB less for Windows. I have the same card.

andreychuk · Answer

Nvidia just released a fresh new set of Beta Drivers that may interest you in solving your problem. See Here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_158.18.html

Sparton2090 · Answer

I have 1 gig and a fairly large amount of virtual memory, When I check the amount of memory it was using when the game closes it says that it was not even close to using the max available

keeseng12 · Answer

Hie, Try this out and see whether does it helps or not

*****Reminder - please try this at your own risk******

Solution
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Try to turn off the Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

How-to
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1. Open System by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking System.

2. Click Advanced System Settings. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

3. Under Performance, click Settings.

4. Click the Data Execution Prevention tab, and then click Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select. Try this out and try to play the game, see whether does it cause your game to close or minimize to desktop again. Hope it helps.

Message Edited by keeseng12 on 04-20-2007 07:13 PM

keeseng12 · Answer

Did you try to turn off the DEP?

Sparton2090 · Answer

I tried the link to the new beta drivers, http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_158.18.html and it looked likethey were for windows vista, will it work with media center?

keeseng12 · Answer

Doubt it'll work as the driver is designed for vista 32-bit

U mean Win XP Media Center?

If not mistaken, the same file but for Win Media Center is here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_158.19.html

Sorry if i got u wrong.

Message Edited by keeseng12 on 04-20-2007 08:03 PM

keeseng12 · Answer

Glad to hear that your issue resolved

Sparton2090 · Answer

Acctually I think turning off DEP worked, it was either that or deleting the other accounts on the computer but either way I just played for over three hours without interuption, the longest Iv gotten in a long time, it still has not kicked me off. Either way thank you for your help, I think its finally over, Im sure I'l be back if I encounter this or any other problems again, this was more useful help than Iv gotten from any technical support.

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Game Closing Randomly

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