The Crash that killed me

Lately I have been having issues with crashing. Not because of my computer or internet. Sure I get the occasional Mapserver, but that it occasionally. Even that was mostly remmedied by my ISP.

However I have noticed that the game seems to freeze. Especially on TF's. The game just gets to a load screen and then does not load anything. If I click anything the screen turns white, the system says the program must close, and thats that. Sometimes it mentions memory.

Well today I crashed again (Same as above). Only this time nothing worked. I froze completely having to do a hard reboot. Which then resulted in some form of damage...or so it said.

Eventually I had to do a complete factory restore as was advised by customer support for my computer because even safe mode was broken.

So...I am unsure about all of this at the moment. It seems that this was not an issue 3 months ago, but a recent development. A really bad one too.

Mapservering can at least be quickly dealt with. This is just downright freezing and crashing has never occured in other games or products.

So whats the deal?

Could either be a heat issue or a piece of hardware is failing.

Wow...a complete restore is an annoying hassle.

Prolly will take me forever to just get updates.

Either way.

I assume, In case I cannot find my disks, that I can reload the client through my account?

I have never had to do this before.

I no longer use the disks that came with the game when I reload it. I download it because I found it requires less patching. Log into your master account, select the game account and chose Download PC Client from the Actions box.