Crash to desktops the last two days...

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:55 am

The last few days I've been playing, I've been getting WOW.exe crashes to the desktop...

Anyone else seeing these, and is there a fix or just a new bug that Blizzard needs to patch?

I'm using CosmosUI..Could that be the culprit?

Sirens · Post by **Sirens** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:07 am

a patch or 3 ago something was introduced to eq2.

many Nvidia users...especially Nvidia6800 were hit hard on a "stuttering image" problem..I was aswell on my old videocard.
Dotn think that problem have been resolved yet.

changed card and drivers aswell...all have been fine.

I may be clueless ..but try to reinstall latest vid-drivers, defrag hard disk, scan for virus, trojans and spyware. delete and reinstate windows swap file, patch XP to latest stage, move swapfile away from drive where wow resides.

Post by **Lyion** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:13 am

This box has a 6800 but it hasnt caused me any issues.

It seems to happen when I loot. It crashed me with an ACCESS_VIOLATION.

I'm really curious if Cosmos could be the reason. I may try and play without it <which would suck>

lareau · Post by **lareau** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:20 am

you could try uninstalling cosmos then reinstalling it. It worked for me and the crashing got alot more infrequent.

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:49 am

Could very well be Cosmos. If I don't open WoW the same way everytime (open Cosmos directly from inside the WoW folder) Cosmos will cause the game to freeze upon load and I will have to delete my entire UI and customization folder and redownload it all. Its a good program but a very picky one.

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:16 am

if that doesnt work, try deleting your .wtf and interface options folder, and re run. Thats what they had me do when I would crash when turning in quests.