So.. I've been playing since OB started, everyday, with no hitches whatsoever.
Running a Quad core CPU, 4 gigs of RAM, and an nVidia GeForce 9600 GT 1 gig card.
Game runs great, until today. I'm flying in Sector space, and BAM. Blue screen. Not the BSOD, but an actual blue screen. Since I use a 32 inch HD TV for my monitor, that means the graphics card stopped transmitting.
Nothing I can do can get things going again. I restart my comp. Can't get to Windows.
Had to turn it off, pull the CMOS battery, start it back up, run diagnostics and repair the HD(that took over an hour, because there was Hard Disk damage), and got things back to running shape.
Before you say anything about the damaged hard drive, I do a hardware diagnostic once a week automatically, and everything always come back perfect. There was no pre-existing hard drive damage.
So, I go to start the game again... immediate blue screen. At least this time there was no damage, and I was able to restart.
Either way, I'm pretty sure your game just broke itself. Been having problems with the way your engine works with nVidia cards since CO launched.
About damned time you fixed those issues. I know you're not backed by nVidia, but causing the majority of your customers(nVidia being the biggest gamer GPU producers) to have to jump through hurdles, and deal with subpar performance because you like the other guys better will cost you subs.
If I'm not going to be able to run this efficiently before launch, I'm cancelling my pre-order.
Yeah I could get a physical every week till the day I drop dead of a heart attack. Hardware failures aren't going to happen in windows, not often at least. The moment that the flaw within the hardware presents itself is a moment of high-stress. And that usually means when you're playing games. And then the person playing that game runs off to the forums of that game and yells "Your game destroyed my computer!"
I know you're angry, but it's a hardware failure, a freak incident. If people's HDs were popping like popcorn, we'd be concerned. But an isolated person having their computer die due to the high-end stress placed on the computer from un-optimized code is a given. Your HD probably hitched out and corrupted some drivers or windows files in the initial fault. I had prettymuch the exact same thing happen to me when simply using winodws standby mode!
Best thing to do is salvage all the data you can, get a new hard drive, and maintain regular backups. Once a drive shows that it's unreliable, replace it and reinstall. My heart goes out, but don't be so quick to blame the game. Game is software and BSODs are there to keep software from destroying hardware.
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I know you're angry, but it's a hardware failure, a freak incident. If people's HDs were popping like popcorn, we'd be concerned. But an isolated person having their computer die due to the high-end stress placed on the computer from un-optimized code is a given. Your HD probably hitched out and corrupted some drivers or windows files in the initial fault. I had prettymuch the exact same thing happen to me when simply using winodws standby mode!
Best thing to do is salvage all the data you can, get a new hard drive, and maintain regular backups. Once a drive shows that it's unreliable, replace it and reinstall. My heart goes out, but don't be so quick to blame the game. Game is software and BSODs are there to keep software from destroying hardware.