And lo On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:49:39 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake thusly:

> Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>
>> Perhaps any game that tries to push the hardware to the limit of its  
>> capabilities gains a higher percentage chance of locking up? If you  
>> downgrade the display settings etc. do they lock up as frequently?
>
> Perhaps any product released on a tight schedule more frequently  
> experience problems?

One could well argue that the ability to patch games on the consoles has  
led to a deteriation of quality by the rise in importance of the schedule  
(i.e we can't release this on time it's not ready vs. we'll patch it  
later). However PCs have always had this ability so wouldn't explain why  
Warp is having difficulty unless he's only buying games that have been  
pressured out on arbitary time-scale. Of course it could be a mix of  
pushing the hardware at the same time as pushing out the game 'on time'.

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Phil Cook

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>  For the last 4 years approximately 90% of games crash sooner or later in
> my WinXP system.

...

> Lately
> this hasn't been happening, which might coincide with me buying a new
> graphics card.

Hehe I had similar with an old Ti-4200 3D card, on almost every game, after 
a 5 or 10 mins of gameplay some random triangles would flicker across the 
screen.  This would gradually get worse and then either the game would crash 
or the system would totally hang.  I put it down to some bad RAM on the GFX 
card, I never found out the actual cause because I just replaced the whole 
card and it solved the problem.

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