Eq2 + Mem leak + Vista media centre = Bluescreen lockup crash freeze ?

[Pitt Hammerfi]

<p>Hi im having a problem with my PC locking up with a sound loop and totally freezing when i'm using vista media centre and playing eq2 at the same time. I have to physically reset the system when it locks up</p><p>This freeze only happens when i play eq2 and try to watch media centre - its fine just running media centre by itself.</p><p>The crash can occur anywhere from 5 mins to a few hours of watching media centre while everquest 2 is running.</p><p>Its something in eq2 thats causing a conflict with media centre like overlays or memory leaks or god knows what </p><p>My PC is totally up to date - drivers, updates etc etc</p><p>AMD x2 5200</p><p>4 Gigs ram pc800 dual channel</p><p>MSI 8800gtx 768 m/b ram</p><p>2x 300 gig sata raid-0</p><p>Leadtek DVT2000</p><p>I've tried googling the problem, but i cant see many people using Vista media centre and EQ2 at the same time</p><p>I really dont even know how to start troubleshooting this issue - i'm assuming its SOE or MS conflict and im sure each company would point to the other <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /> </p><p>Regards</p>

[Wingrider01]

<cite>Pitt Hammerfist wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hi im having a problem with my PC locking up with a sound loop and totally freezing when i'm using vista media centre and playing eq2 at the same time. I have to physically reset the system when it locks up</p><p>This freeze only happens when i play eq2 and try to watch media centre - its fine just running media centre by itself.</p><p>The crash can occur anywhere from 5 mins to a few hours of watching media centre while everquest 2 is running.</p><p>Its something in eq2 thats causing a conflict with media centre like overlays or memory leaks or god knows what </p><p>My PC is totally up to date - drivers, updates etc etc</p><p>AMD x2 5200</p><p>4 Gigs ram pc800 dual channel</p><p>MSI 8800gtx 768 m/b ram</p><p>2x 300 gig sata raid-0</p><p>Leadtek DVT2000</p><p>I've tried googling the problem, but i cant see many people using Vista media centre and EQ2 at the same time</p><p>I really dont even know how to start troubleshooting this issue - i'm assuming its SOE or MS conflict and im sure each company would point to the other <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src=" width="15" height="15" />" width="15" height="15"> </p><p>Regards</p></blockquote>Since It only occurs with the Vista Media Center application running, what occurs when you run EQ by itelf? Is the Vista system up to date with all fixes, hotfixes and the newly released SP1? Suspect the issue leans towards attempts to share the audio subsystem, have you tried disabling sound completely in the game? Sound devices are notorious for not playing well when multiple applications attempt to access it

[Pitt Hammerfi]

Yeah both programs run fine seperatley, ok thanks ill try disabling sound in eq2 - although i dont think theres an option to disable sound completely is there ? apart from turning the master volume down ?

[Wingrider01]

<cite>Pitt Hammerfist wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah both programs run fine seperatley, ok thanks ill try disabling sound in eq2 - although i dont think theres an option to disable sound completely is there ? apart from turning the master volume down ?</blockquote>I think there is, I am sitting in the airport waiting for a flight home so I can't look at the options.