Crash to Desktop

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I got this game yesterday as a graduation present, and I must say that I have fallen in love with it already. Its nowhere near as fast paced as the FPSs im used to playing, which is exactly why I like it. Its nice to have a change of pace now and again. ;)

However, I am having one issue. After about 30 minutes of playing the game, the game simply quits and I am asked if I would like to send an error report (BTW im using XP Media Center). This is very dissapointing because R6V2 (another graduation present that i love immensly) does not work properly either. It has a similar issue that causes it to crash and go to a Blue Screen Of Death after playing the game for a certain period of time.

I cant seem to find an answer to this, and quite frankly, its downright vexing. First R6V2, now this. I swear, I must have gotten two bad copies of two great games, and its quite dissapointing. :( Anything you can tell me to help solve this will be greatly appreciated.

there is something else that I forgot to mention: after it crashes and it asks me to send an error report, i get a system baloon popup telling me that windows is out of virtual memory.
technical
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
What are your system specs?  Have you checked your virtual memory settings? (Control panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Advanced)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2
Athalon 64 X2 4200+ @ 2.21GHZ
2.00GB of Ram
250GB HDD
ATI Radeon 3850
SoundPackager - Customize the Windows sound scheme
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
1. Since it's not only happening in SINS but also Vegas 2 (which is buggy as hell, but does actually run) I'd say it's obvious that it's an issue with your machine/config and not the games themselves.

2. Something to check (as psugar already pointed out) are your virtual memory settings. I have a 6.5GB pagefile (I know I don't really need one that large, but then I've also never had a single crash in SINS). Might be something to check out, especially since you're getting a pop-up telling you your system is running low on virtual mem.


**rule of thumb i've often used**

Setting my pagefile size to at least 2.5 X the amount of installed system RAM has kept many of my systems running whithout a hitch!


the Monk
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
well i think i just found the problem. I checked under advanced in the system menu...i didnt have a page file...>_> i have it set to 2056MB now.

hopefully this will fix the crashes...if not, ill reply to this thread again.