when i go to quit the program, and when i get to the menu screen with the exit button, play button etc. i press the exit button then my computer just suddenly retarts. Any one have any idea what is happening and/or how to fix it?

OS?
CPU?
RAM?
GFX Card?

I'm betting Windows, running the 9x kernel, using an older nVidia card, IE orig geforce/DDR

my box also does this when trying to run Tomb Raider, the latest one. I cant figure it out, can a program force a computer to restart?

In Win9X/ME a program can. It can't in NT/2k/XP though. The best it could do is BSOD but that's mainly only if there's a bug in the os/drivers.

sry my bad, i supposed info would help.. i am running a 2.8G pentium 4 processor, with 512 ram, and a pretty good radion graphics card, and i am on a xp hope that helps please feel free to ask if more info about the comp is needed... i really wnat to find out what the hell is wrong

Do other 3d games work? Maybe your gfx card is broken and, like, turns off if it gets a DirectX call made to it...

yea, i play my COD(yum) all the time and it works fine with no probs... and vendetta gives no problems untill i exit in the very frist menu screen with the play button and the options button and the info button

edit: COD for anyone that does not know is Call of Duty, which is one of the best first-person shootes for the comp i have seen...

Darthmonkeyman, it's good to see you decided to come here for help rather than bug me about it in school; you know I can't help you with this stuff.

Might he need new drivers for his Radeon?

wow this sux, this just happened again, but this time it happened while i was playing in the game... and it suddenely got glitchy and the comp restarted.... WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON.. i am so confused.. first i though that while loggin out the exit button was currupted but since it is happeing in the game i am no longer even able to guess to the cause... help..

Try to update your Radeon drivers to the most recent version of you haven't already.

Maybe Vendetta is overheating your card?

I had this problem with an ATI card that had old drivers. Caused some memory thing to go screwy and it would reset randomly if I had Vendetta open. New Drivers are wonderful tho.

thanx all.. it seems to be working now.. but i will need to test(play) more to see if the problem persists

ok.... now it just happened again while i was trying to quit after the item/cargo/shipequip/store menu started to flash every time i clicked something.. anyone know if there was any server side modifications or anything happeneing to the server at around 4:30pm saturday march 20th 2004 EST(US)?

crud happened again at about mid day today... when i tried to quit the program my computer restarted.. and the sign which occurs everytime is that my screen flashes and gets kinda glitchy. While i am loggin out out nothing happens however as soon as i am at the last step in exiting venetta, and press exit then the computer freezes up for a second and then restarts.. anyone have any advice and/or insight to this situation?

sounds like something's overheating. Not Vendetta's fault...

Overheating problems can be tricky to diagnose. Try playing with the computer's cover off. While you're at it, vacuum off the cards (make sure the power is off and ground the chassis with your hand the entire time - rushing air is a source of static electricity).

Please don't post in Bugs unless you have a bug or a solution. There are PCI versions of Radeon cards. He described "a pretty good radion graphics card".

Is it only vendetta crashing? It could also be bad RAM...

Try Running tests, such as Prime 95 (google it), and Memtest86. I doubt you have a Vendetta problem.


As for overheating, I don't think it would cause instant crashing without the screen artifacting (at the least...).

Wait, if it's happening after a given action as he's saying (while he's logging out) then it's not an over heating problem which would happen after a period of time and would have no correlation to logging out.

It sounds as if he IS describing some artifacting, and an overheated or underpowered card is more likely to act up when changing modes.

However:

Darth,

You don't say which Radeon card you have (and please do specify) but this is a known issue for Radeon 7* and 9* cards - not just for Vendetta but in general - and appears to be more likely with AMD processors. The suggested fixes are:
-Upgrade to latest drivers
-Cool the system (for now, take the case off, etc. as mentioned above)
-Switch your graphics card to another slot if possible
-Verify that your power supply is at least 350w

Please try at least the first two and report back.