DavinaX

Hmm played for several hours with no crashes, the only thing I have really done differently is not to install those games or daemon tools, and I have also stuck with XP Service Pack 2 rather than upgrading to SP3... Perhaps the SP3 was actually the problem? Oh and I also haven't updated the Graphics/Sound drivers...Hmmm

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I can't see any problems with the specs.

My guess is Daemon is ruining your fun, if nothing else. It wouldn't be other games. Try uninstalling Daemon, and try the game then, if there is no longer problems then you must believe that Daemon is causing it and unfortunately you'll have to keep without it in that case.

Although this is just a guess, but nothing else on your computer that you have shown us deducts suspicion. (Sherlock Holmes style )

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Tried uninstalling F.E.A.R. and Daemon Tools, as F.E.A.R messed with DirectX when I installed it for some reason, also tried reinstalling DirectX 9.0c to make sure. Still had same problems. Driver versions were all updated to latest, including the Sound Blaster Audigy SE I forgot to mention previously 175.19 Nvidia drivers I believe it was. Nothing seemed to be helping, so I thought "balls to it" and seeing as it's a fairly recent XP installation, I went the whole hog and formatted and reinstalled. Am testing it out now, fingers crossed will all be ok again. Thanks for the replies guys

OK, I just bought City of Heroes/Villains Combined (Online purchase) after having my 14 day Free Trial, the end of which coincided with me purchasing a new PC.

I installed CoX and it worked fine for a few days, no problems. The day the problems started, I had just installed F.E.A.R. and S.T.A.L.K.E.R, and also Daemon Tools for loading images so I don't have to faff round with changing CD's/DVD's every time I want to switch games.

CoX now crashes randomly, most often with no error message, straight to desktop at totally random intervals, sometimes after playing for an hour, other times on the loading screen at login, and sometimes just from switching characters.

I'm running Windows XP Professional with SP3 on a nice shiny new Quad core system (I still don't trust Vista)

Specs: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 G0 stepping
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB(Sparkle)
2GB OCZ Reaper Edition PC8500 RAM
Asus P5K SE Mobo
550W OCZ ModStream Power Supply
500GB Samsung Spinpoint HDD (SATA II)

Any ideas please? This is driving me bonkers