Game freezes up, what's happening?
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I just got a new computer and installed Steam on it, but Timelines no longer works. I can install it, start to load it, but the game freezes on the Priming Spore Drive part of the initialisation, and the computer reboots. Does anyone have any ideas what's happening? The new computer runs Windows 10, the old computer ran Windows 7 if that helps.
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So you might need to check if the game is not being blocked by some settings in the firewall and other security features present in Windows 10.
It's an issue with your drivers. You'll have to update them, I believe.
I had the same thing for a month.
Edit: The blue screen should give you an error code for a second before it restarts, which you can then google. When I proceeded to google it, I learned it was a drivers issue.
AMD makes good stuff. I actually think I have a similar graphics card? That might actually have something to do with it.
Maybe try that if there is ?
I found a link to a help article by Microsoft that might help you update them:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028443/windows-update-drivers-in-windows-10
Time to check that article out.
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Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
That's precisely what happened to me. I had once it loaded all the way, let me open up the Time Portal, then crashed my computer. It's a drivers issue.
These were the error messages I received.
I would suggest going to AMD site. Go to support and download latest graphic drivers for your graphic card.
Firstly I would recommend checking Windows update, then your graphic card manufacturer for latest drivers, then as a last hope try to change the location of the game files, if you have multiple local drives (just to exclude disk inconsistencies).
Also, check if you have enough space available (at least a couple of GB), may be obvious but it's tricky to notice sometimes.
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Are you sure that's your card? It was very good seven years ago, but today it gets outperformed by $100 graphics cards.
But it was a reasonably high-end card with an enormous power draw! I wonder if the bloke in the computer shop connected both of its extra power connectors and made sure the PC had a PSU capable of supplying it with 250W..? Because fluctuating power from an over-taxed power supply can cause blue screens and PC resets.
Without knowing the rest of your new PC specs (I assume it's only 'new' to you - it must be a second-hand PC, right?), it's difficult to comment further. Was the other game you tried a 3D game? Have you tried running other games for 30+ minutes?
If all other games are running fine, then it points to a software issue. 2011 was not a great time for AMD drivers (although they've improved a lot since then), and AMD don't even officially support the 6970 for Windows 10 as far as I can see. Their "legacy" support goes back as far as the 7000 series.
Sapphire still has links to the Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers for Windows 10, which support your 6970. You could give those a go: http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?Pid=3BC7709B-A457-40C1-A654-D65FE576065F&tag=download&lang=eng
It's exactly the same driver installation process as Windows 7: download the correct executable for your Windows (i.e. 32-bit or 64 bit) and then run the executable when it has downloaded.
In the meantime, you can also run Timelines on PC via Facebook.
Based on that error you should probably check this out:
tomshardware.com/faq/id-3128566/fix-windows-error-dpc-watchdog-violation.html
I did, at the time, and now everything's fixed, I was just trying to show OP why I think he's having the same problem, and why he needs to update his drivers.
Those were the exact two errors I got too.
Yes, that's right. It's new to me, but it's a refurbished custom-build the shop made for itself however long ago. I'm on social security and can't afford to buy brand-new off the factory line, so tend to buy older tech when they come down in price enough. This was £220 and for what I wanted to use it for, seemed sufficient. The other game was Crusader Kings 2, a strategy game.
I got this solved in the end. Took the system back in, they anticipated only keeping it a day but it was about four days before I heard from them again. The techie said he put it through every fix he knew but couldn't get it to work with Win10 no matter what he did, so ended up wiping the O/S and installing Windows 7 on it. Worked first time.
My old system still has windows xp. I was thinking about upgrading to windows 7. But I was more concerned about my hardware being incompatible so I did not. Also if I did it was a two step process vista first than 7.