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Hey guys!


Well, I have been putting up with this for the last month, and I just can't stand it anymore... These are the problems:

-Whenever I compile Mega Mash Mothers, and press escape to exit, the program freezes, and I have to force quit it in the task manager.

-The fist time I run Mega Mash Mothers, and force quit the application, it remains in the process list as a zombie process. Any other instances started afterwards closed properly (after force quitting)

-If there is a runtime error or runtime warning (like a file that doesn't exist), the program freezes, and I have to force quit it in the task manager. This is weird, because it usually returns to the line where it was missing.

-Using the "end" command also makes it freeze.

-Any other Project besides Mega Mash Mothers runs flawlessly.

-Windows movie maker doesn't work

-Paint takes 14 minutes to start

-Computer never shuts down. When shutdown is initiated, I have to press the shutdown button three or four more times before it actually shuts down.

-When shutting down, it remains with the screen "Windows is shutting down", but never turns off power.


These errors only started occurring since I overclocked my RAM so it could run SC2 at a reasonable speed. Just to test, I set back the original speeds for my RAM, and the system worked fine for a while, but after a few days it started behaving the same way as mentioned above. WHAT IS WRONG?!

Any help greatly appreciated!


TheComet

Geek culture?

I thought about that, but it has more to do with DarkBasic Pro, and Mega Mash Mothers not working, so I posted it here. The other stuff is just to point out what else is wrong.

TheComet

or a hardware modding forum to get advice from the gurus.

Sounds like something overheated when you overclocked it... hope I'm wrong for your sake!

I'd suggest running a Memtest86 and seeing if one of your sticks of RAM is faulty.

Otherwise, it could be some other faulty hardware. I used to have a problem with the PC where it would randomly reset, and a couple of years later it would just refuse to shut down (it would instead restart). I disconnected a CD burner that had started to act strange, and all the problems went away.

I think I also had a shutdown problem when I installed a PCI card.

@thecomet

If this seems specifically related to Mega Mash Mothers ,are you using any custom DLLs, or any dll calls? I ran into a problem with DBC using calls to winmm. If I didn't close the audio files properly before exiting the DB app, DB.exe got held as a zombie process. Every time I'd run and close the app, more and more DB.exes would accumulate forcing all of the resources to be eaten up and the computer to eventually crash.

If you are making any DLL calls that require the release of some resource, you may be running into a similar problem. Maybe you aren't de-initializing or closing something or if the DLL itself could be poorly designed: where it doesn't do any error checking and may have serious memory leaks or never properly releases resources or never terminates certain processes.