Ok ok ok ... I realize that I will get flamed for this ... but I'm posting my opinion and a few facts thrown in and didn't want to search the forums to see if I could find a related topic. Forgive me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />
I bought beyond divinity recently due to a lack of games that looked interesting that I did not already own. After I got home ... surprise! Divine divinity included. Sweetness!
I jumped into google ... searched for patches and somehow ended up reading about starforce the evil one. I shrugged ... didn't care ... installed the game ... played it for twenty seconds ... installed the other ... did likewise ... and proptly forgot the both of them.
I have a fairly nice computer that I just recently bought:
AMD 3400+
1 gig RAM
160 gig HD
ATI 9800XT 256 meg graphics card
DVD burner
cd-rom
SB audigy2 ZS sound card
22" NEC/MITS diamondtron multisync monitor
running Windows XP home
Nothing spectacular but nothing to be ashamed of.
I keep my drivers/os updated and I usually check for updates daily. I am on my computer an average of fifteen hours a day so running at the best level I can is a major priority for me.
Random crashes started happening and I could not understand why. Checked my computer for viruses ... cleaned it of any possible spyware ... defragged ... the works.
Still getting random crashes.
Then I remembered the game and the starforce issues I read about (I saw the icons on my desktop) ... and was going to uninstall them. First I downloaded the SFclean prog and ran it ...
The crashes have stopped completely.
I am not saying that starforce was the cause but .... after alot of random crashes ... and then the removal of starforce ... then the complete lack of crashes ...
What I really don't understand is that I never even played the games ... not counting the few seconds that I initially ran them.
Suggestions? Opinions? Advice? Flames?
Please remember that I went to the trouble of registering just so that I could let everyone know what happened to me. Try and keep the flames to a minimum please.
Thanks,
Narcissus
