Bit of a technical problem here..
I've seen this whenever I play any 3d games - Battlefield 1942, the Sims, Railroad Tycoon 2, etc. But now I've just fired up Civ2 (MGE) and its doing it to me again!
My computer used to just crash (restart) after about 10 minutes of playing. I fiddled with some settings so it brings up a big blue screen first. This screen says the problem is:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
It also says a load of other technical stuff I don't understand (letters and numbers, basically). It won't let me back to windows, and all I can do is restart. It tells me to update all relevant (?!?!?!?!) drivers.. which I've done. Anyway, I can't get a screenshot, so don't ask.
I've got an AMD Athlon 2200 which I believe is 1.8ghz. ATI Radeon graphics card, 512mb DDR RAM, 80gb hard drive space.
I've virus checked and defragged. No change.
Unsurprisingly, I'm using Windows XP
I use cd cracks for some games (possibly including Civ...!), but it happens to all my other games, so it can't be that.
Anyone know what this IRQL thing is?
Can anyone help at all?!
I've seen this whenever I play any 3d games - Battlefield 1942, the Sims, Railroad Tycoon 2, etc. But now I've just fired up Civ2 (MGE) and its doing it to me again!
My computer used to just crash (restart) after about 10 minutes of playing. I fiddled with some settings so it brings up a big blue screen first. This screen says the problem is:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
It also says a load of other technical stuff I don't understand (letters and numbers, basically). It won't let me back to windows, and all I can do is restart. It tells me to update all relevant (?!?!?!?!) drivers.. which I've done. Anyway, I can't get a screenshot, so don't ask.
I've got an AMD Athlon 2200 which I believe is 1.8ghz. ATI Radeon graphics card, 512mb DDR RAM, 80gb hard drive space.
I've virus checked and defragged. No change.
Unsurprisingly, I'm using Windows XP
I use cd cracks for some games (possibly including Civ...!), but it happens to all my other games, so it can't be that.
Anyone know what this IRQL thing is?
Can anyone help at all?!
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