CFS3 locks up! HELP

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Galand

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My MS CFS3 regularly (10-20 minutes) locks up in the middle of a flight and after sending the error report to MS it CDT's. I thought it was graphics horse power, but I just installed a nvidia GT9500 with 1 Gb and it still crashes. I have an AMD Dual Core with 2 Gb.
The Application Event Viewer shows "Fault address 0x00119a27" most of the time. Sometimes "Fault address 001e7015 or 00100d4c". I have re-installed CFS3 3.1 and 3.1a several times, it still locks up. I cannot find any explanation for those fault codes at the MS site. Can anyone help me with a suggestion? I have ETO also on the machine, both with 'Multi CFS". ETO also locks up. It sort of spoils the fun to get shot by the system instead of by the enemy!
 
It's a long shot, but have you checked your PC for dust build up?
CFS3 is a hog, your PC may be overheating, it's just a suggestion I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but people with more knowledge than me, have suggested this when I had a similar prob, I still get it from time to time!
 
Bravo/4
When I changed the video card this morning I was amazed at the quantity of dust. So I vacuumed it. This pm when it locked up 3 times in one hour. So it cannot be the dust, but thanks for trying!
 
It might have nothing to do with CFS3 per se if it has not caused problems before. Sounds as Bravo said; maybe a hardware problem Have you checked your temperatures; can you on your machine? Otherwise is your OS and or vid card working OK; do you have other games to try them out?
 
I also have a golf game on the machine. Not very graphics intensive and no lock-up/freeze with it. Temp of GPU is 37C, so nothing there.
Thanks for bothering Mongoose
 
Amost totally solved! I decided 'what the heck' and put the all the sliders all the way to 5 and ran 2 hours of intense arial combat. No lock-up or freeze!!!:monkies:.
I then ran ETO with Trakir and sliders at level 5, again no lock-ups where before it would freeze every 10 minutes.
OFF locked up within 30 seconds.
This would seem to confirm what I read somewhere that CFS3 likes to runs better with a high graphics load.
Still cannot explain OFF.
 
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