Blue screen of Mortal Wounding

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Xavierblazer

Vault Senior Citizen
Windows 200 SP4
Dell latitude laptop
800 mghz pentium 3
ESS meistro sound
ATI mobile graphics
Direct X 8.0
Fallout 2 US v1.2



About once every day im getting an error when I play fallout 2 on this machine. It occurs most often when I open the options menu, the character sccreen, Inventory, Dialog, ect.

Its a blue screen with some numbers at the top and under the numbers is the message more or less:

ERROR: Kernel error
Dumping physical memory...failed

The sound the game was making when the error happened is looped and the whole thing freezes



when I reboot the computer it works fine
 
What have you tried to do yet? Have you tried re-installing, disabling some of the hardware acceleration, compatibility mode etc?
 
Does is only happen when you play fallout 2?

I would go look up the latest drivers off the dell site for your laptop and get them.
 
Already have the latest drivers.


The thing is, it seems to only happen if I play fallout within 10 minutes of turining it on, so I guess it does it when its still loading something. But when it happens, scandisk kicks in when I turn it on and finds lost file fragments. I dont know where they come from but I have an 8 gig partition specifically for fallout and fallout related stuff.

Now, in fallout 1 I cant enter the boneyard or it freezes(not the blue screen), even on a new game so its probably from master.dat. The weird thing is on this particular instance I was in vault 15 and the lue screen came up when I used the rope on an eleator.
 
I'd advise running diskdefragmentor, that helps a suprising amount of Fallout related problems for me.
 
Xavierblazer said:
Already have the latest drivers.


The thing is, it seems to only happen if I play fallout within 10 minutes of turining it on, so I guess it does it when its still loading something. But when it happens, scandisk kicks in when I turn it on and finds lost file fragments. I dont know where they come from but I have an 8 gig partition specifically for fallout and fallout related stuff.
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The files are usually temp files used by either Fallout or Windows or some other background application. It's rather common for those to be left lingering around.
You might want to try just turning off as many background applications as you possibly can and then play Fallout. If Fallout then doesn't crash, chances are it's one of your background apps.
 
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