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    Marathon Game causes BSOD-P7805u

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by TreeTops Ranch, Dec 16, 2011.

  1. TreeTops Ranch

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    Downloaded Marathon from this site: Aleph One - Marathon Open Source

    Played it and shut down computer for the night. Started up next day with BSOD.

    Did restore to recover and all is OK now but what the heck is wrong with that game? :confused:
     
    TreeTops Ranch, Dec 16, 2011
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  2. hydra

    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    Wow, one of my old mac games for the old motorola cpu with OS6.

    LOL, I'll download and see if it kills my FX ;)

    BTW, where the heck is Bungie?
     
    hydra, Dec 16, 2011
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    I downloaded all three. Huge improvement from some time ago, I forget (CRS)

    I quickly checked M1 and M2 no problem on restart but will post if further problems found.

    Like Doomsday the OpenGL rooms look great but still a lot of funny bitmaped sprites with different player mechanics than the Doom titles.

    + for your link, thx..good luck.
     
    hydra, Dec 17, 2011
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    Glad you got it working. There is a comment that they rewrote the engine code. Faster play and better graphics.
     
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    OK, got a BSod.

    It was in-game while I was messing with the F keys. So needs a bit more work..but certainly not the first game i had that would cause a BSOD.

    Hopefully GOG will pick it up to work out final kinks but I will continue to play as is. Great game!
     
    hydra, Dec 17, 2011
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    Battlefield Play for Free also makes random BSODs on nVidia systems.
     
    Kirrr, Dec 21, 2011
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