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Starcraft System Crash
I'm using Windows 7 RC x64.
I regularly play starcraft over UDP on my friend's LAN, as well as over Hamachi VPN.
This has happened twice now, where about 15minutes approximately into any game, my game completely locks up and I cannot Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Alt+Del or use any other method to exit the game.
The only thing I CAN do is a hard-reset.
On my friends screens, it's shows me timing out (via the "Drop Player" screen that pops up as soon as my system freezes).
I've played StarCraft extensively in Windows XP and Vista and NEVER had a problem like this.
I'm using 7 RC x64, like I said, and am using a Lenovo ThinkPad (specs below).
This has happened twice now, the first time I thought that Hamachi had dropped the connection. However, this time I was playing over the local network and the same crash happened.
It seems random, the in-game music keeps playing, my mouse freezes where it is and my entire system can't respond.
Quickly checked the Event Viewer under both Windows Logs > Application and Windows Logs > System and didn't find any information at the time of the crash.
EDIT: I will be monitoring my PC's temps in case it's hardware related.
I run TPFanControl to dissipate heat during 3D intensive games (Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, etc.) and have no problems with GPU/CPU temps (I monitor them in-game using RivaTuner).
Last edited by ambientmf; 15 May 2009 at 20:19.