System Crashing.

[MaxD]

So I am not new to Keyclone I have used it for over a year now. I took a break from the game and now that the expac is out I have been playing. For some reason if I have keyclone going with 2 or more games going my system either takes me to the blue screen of death or I get the audio loop freeze-up. This happens every time with in an hour. Is there something that has changed with in the game that I am not aware of?

I can run 2 games with out keyclone with out the system crashing. I can run 5 games with out the system crashing. When I use keyclone now the system crashs

Prior to the expansion I could run 5 accounts just fine, now I cant run two for a long.

I have vista
I have a liquid cooled machine that is low temp.
I have swapped out memory to make sure that is not the issue. I cant find what could be causing this.

[Maxion]

Do you have enough ram?
Do you have the newest version of keyclone?

[Valdemarick]

When you BSOD, what does it say is causing the crash? Windows will kick some kind of error code or driver name when this happens. That might help with the diagnosis.

[MaxD]

Next time it does it Ill let you know, for the most part it does that audio loop. So I dont see the Blue screen, but it has happened several times.

Ram isnt the issue I have 4 gig and that is more than windows will allow. I have several sets out of 2 machines issues with both sets.
I have used keyclone up to 5 accounts on 1 system with limited issues, cities were a pain some times.
Like I said though this wasn't an issue pre-last expac and I do have the newest version of Keyclone.

[Lax]

This isn't something that's obvious to most people, so here's the thing about BSODs and system crashes: They cannot be caused by most applications, including KeyClone. By design of modern computers and operating systems, applications like KeyClone (and even my applications) run at "user level", which is basically (or ideally) shielded from bringing down the whole system. Things that run at "kernel level" (I'm not using the exact technical term here) can interact directly with the hardware, this includes drivers and the operating system itself, and can probably blow up your computer. The main thing that applications can do that affects the whole system is saturate a resource, like your CPU or video card, meaning use it a lot without letting it rest -- in which case the problems would be described as slowness, up to overheating, which could then cause a hardware failure and therefore a BSOD, crash, freeze, etc.

Like Valdemarick said, when you BSOD it actually tells you the name of the driver that failed, for example nv4mini.sys, and that can be googled to help figure out what driver or hardware is causing a problem. If I had to guess, it's probably related to your video card. Try updating your video card driver first, and see if the problem stops. If not, it's either going to be a process of trial and error (updating drivers, replacing hardware that might be going bad, etc) or you might end up getting one of the "windows shut down unexpectedly" boxes that might have some helpful information about what driver or hardware is having trouble. Also since you mentioned sound, you might want to check for sound driver updates as well. If you have a Sound Blaster product (Live, Audigy, etc) their Vista drivers have been notoriously bad.

[Catamer]

a lockup with looping sounds ..
this to me sounds like a weak power supply this is on the verge of death.
It can handle the power needed by your pc while not doing 3d graphics.

I suppose you could test this by running some other GPU intensive game if you have one.

[Clovis]

I had a simular issue - random blue screens while 5 boxing and I never had the program while 2 boxing. I would also log off WOW for the night and turn off my monitors, to come back in the morning and see the machine had blue screened. Interestingly this only happened following WOW and keyclone.

This was running with 8 gigs of RAM and a dual core. Last weekend I upgraded to a quad Q9550 (2.83ghz before O/Cing) and it's ran all 5 instances perfectly now with no crashes during WOW or post-wow. I lubs my new CPU :)

-Clov