I'm afraid my computer doesn't like Asgeroth Isles

[Aeife/Niamb]

I keep blue screening and crashing within minutes. I did a defrag last night, ran a virus scan and logged into regular UO and got all the updates, but I still couldn't stay connected for 10 minutes. When rebooting my computer gave me a message "CPU is overspeed!" whatever that means.

I shut it down and let it stand idle for a bit and it booted up normally, but I'm afraid to try Asgeroth Isles any more. I guess I'll log in and try to find stuff to do in SWG.

[jim]

Hmm ya you sure have a rough time there.

That cpu overspeed message is due to the blue screen/reboots. I'm pretty sure you aren't overclocked so it will just reset the cpu, memory, and fsb to their designed speeds-which is what it probably was at to begin with heh. It happens with asus boards sometimes with bad boots or blue screens (I have an asus board too heh). It's a safety feature for overclockers but gets triggered sometimes with lockups or aborted reboots. Nothing to worry about at all.

Gateway may be the problem if you don't have trouble on osi uo. You can try razor (like uoassist only free) instead of gateway. You can get razor at www.runuo.com/razor . Install it and start it. The settings are:

Load client...2nd client (auto-detect)
Have checked.... Patch client encryption
server: enter...204.210.86.79 port 2593
have checked...Show this when razor starts
then you can click...Make these settings default

And then click okay to start. Next time it should have all the info already entered.

Now to play osi again you need to follow the instructions in this post or use the program Blackwind wrote ailaunch . He did post some warnings in this post so read that if you use his program instead of making the .bat file.

Blackwind's program is easier if those files he mentions don't get overwritten. Back up the mentioned files if you use it just in case but they weren't overwritten when I used it. I had no trouble using it to log into osi. I started razor normally (without using ailaunch) to go back to Asgeroth.

If you are still blue screening then try uninstalling and reinstalling uo.

If nothing worked so far, then you might want to look at your video settings-make an application profile for uo and set your antialiasing and anisotropic settings to off. If it were me I'd have vertical sync off globally too.

The only other thing I can think of is to lower the hardware acceleration for sound down a notch. I would think if this is the problem you would have had occasional lockups/crashes in other games too.

If you want I can meet you in game (either osi uo or Asgeroth) and help you set any of that.

Good luck and I hope you give it a try again.

[Aeife/Niamb]

Well, I had just installed Razor and went ahead and uninstalled it thinking that might be the problem. I was locking up in SWG last night too, but not crashing my comp.

I remember you had a program that monitored the temperature in the CPU, which I always meant to get and never did. It occured to me maybe the CPU is running too hot and that is causing my problems. Do you have a link where I could find that program?

I'm hoping having given my computer overnight to cool down maybe it will run better this morning. We're having a Corvette hunt tonight in SWG so I won't be available this evening. I guess I'm a little spooked by Asgeroth Isles and not terribly sophisticated on how to change the settings on my computer. I'm just hoping I don't have a general problem with my computer, since it kept locking up in SWG after I gave up on Asgeroth Isles.

[jim]

mbm.livewiredev.com/ is the main page for Motherboard Monitor 5 (MBM5). They have a list of mirror sites for downloads. The newest version didn't like my machine (was getting privileged instruction error) until I installed their beta patch.

I'll send you a board pm with some other suggestions.