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bittahsweet
11-22-2007, 03:14 AM
Ever since I've started playing Fiesta, I've always been getting a blue screen error, commonly known as Blue Screen of Death, and it prompts me to restart my computer. It happens about twice an hour, or just once in two hours if I'm lucky. It's annoying because it happens unexpectedly.

Does anyone know why this happens, and how I can fix it?
Would reinstalling work?
I don't think it has anything to do with the game requirements, though. My brother plays WoW literally 15 hours a day, and he barely encounters problems. And apparently, WoW has higher requirements than Fiesta, doesn't it? :)

Hoping to get a reply.
Please & thank you.

bittahsweet
11-22-2007, 10:42 PM
Am I allowed to BUMP?
Weeell, bump. :)

Shahared
11-22-2007, 11:23 PM
Look up 'page fault errors' if you would like more info on the subject. Basically its an exception error (exceptions are things that stop a program from doing certain tasks in a certain order) caused when your computers CPU stops the software from running because it has requested information that is written into an address space (an address is a kind of sign, like a physical address is in the real world, that tells where information is stored, and is considered to be a 'virtual' memory) that either does not exist in memory or your hardware has yet to show. Another type of fault is when your program asks for memory outside of its own information or attempts to read and write to memory without the authority to do so (often called a 'protection fault'). These virtual 'addresses' are stored in what are called 'pages' in windows. To understand it all you have to understand that programs need to read from the hard drive and ram, as well as write info to them...the information written to the drive is given an address and that address is then stored on a 'page'. These pages are used to facilitate the transfer of data from RAM (the memory that is immediately available) and your hard drive (information stored that is not immediately available but needs to be retrieved into RAM before it can be use). The problem occurs when your program or hardware causes the 'page' of addresses to be incorrect in comparison to the actual data on your physical memory. This could be cause by a hardware problem or caused by the program requesting information outside it's page. For more information here is a Wiki article on the subject=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault
Basically I think it may be a hardware problem or incompatibility. I have never received the page fault error you describe while running fiesta and it would be a severe program problem I would assume others would experience if that was the cause...it could also be a problem with your operating system..but most likely it is due to overuse of your ram or hard drive failure. A few things suggested on the wiki article are increasing memory size and reducing the amount of programs using that memory...do you have alot of apps open? And also you need to be aware that this is 'bad' for you computer. My suggestion is taking it to a professional, one who has experience with routing out messy page fault errors or is good at troubleshooting things like software and hardware incompatibility or faults. Good luck man:p

bittahsweet
11-23-2007, 04:45 AM
Wow.
Thank you very much for that reply :P
How unfair that it happens to Fiesta, but not to my brother's WoW, haha.

Trebori
11-23-2007, 08:20 AM
BSOD's are bad. It means your comp has a serious problem that allready exist. Fiesta is pretty much just pointing it out.