But in my hard earned experience of many games, and many systems, I think my list sums it up. Its a nightmare when it happens to you though, because it can be anything thats causing it.

I could install everything else except the IDE s/w drivers and San Andreas would run fine. San Andreas used to crash my machine, unless I used really old drivers for my old nForce 2 NF7 motherboard, if I installed anything past 2004 release, it used to randomly crash. If they are, avoid the game like the plague, until its patched. Wait until the retail is released and check if anyone else is having game crash issues. Even though your machine is fine, becuase of quantum mechanics your machine is crashing because someone elses has. For some reason your machine has become quantum entangled to other machines that have one of the problems listed above. Demo's, Beta's, or even commercial are often full of bugs that patching remedies.Ĥ.

Your CPU/GPU is overheating either through poor ventilation or inadequate cooling.ģ. Practically any driver issue can crash your machine.Ģ. This is usually due to the following (in order of likeliness)ġ.

Yeah, plenty games have crashed on me before. This wont stop your machine crashing, but it might help in debugging. Navigate to System Properties > Advanced > Startup & Recovery

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