5punk

Yar!

A lot of my games seem to minimise for no reason. It's never been a huge problem before, but it's causing merry hell with Oblivion. Every time it minimises it causes the game to crash - much to my distress.

I've read somewhere that "background applications/other running programmes" could be causing it, so I've logged off Xfire, MSN etc and even turned off my anti virus thingy. I've also made sure my firewall isn't blocking it. It still does it.

Does anyone know 1) why it's doing this and 2) how to stop it.

Cheers tech bitches.

I've had this with a game (CS:S or Beef, can't remember which), where it minimises as soon as the map has loaded up. Hasn't caused a crash of the game, but it is a little irritating.

But in answer to the question, I have no idea!

Lateralus wrote:I've had this with a game (CS:S or Beef, can't remember which), where it minimises as soon as the map has loaded up. Hasn't caused a crash of the game, but it is a little irritating.

But in answer to the question, I have no idea!

CSS sometimes does it for me, dunno why.

try removing any proprietary keyboard/mouse drives?

Download and install crap cleaner http://www.ccleaner.com
Run it
Scan for issues and fix them
Then go into tolls, startup, and look for anything you "think" shouldn't be there anymore
Reboot and let me know how you get on.

Failing that you will have to keep ending tasks one at a time, till you find which one is causing it, but this is a tedious and time consuming task.

Well I've just had a look through the Oblivion forums, apparently the crashing could be caused because I have an HP printer attached. I've ended process on all things that start HP, so hopefully it might work now.

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Download and install crap cleaner http://www.ccleaner.com
Run it
Scan for issues and fix them
Then go into tolls, startup, and look for anything you "think" shouldn't be there anymore
Reboot and let me know how you get on.

Failing that you will have to keep ending tasks one at a time, till you find which one is causing it, but this is a tedious and time consuming task.

Still, I would do THIS anyway as it can't do any damage, and you might be suprised what a difference it will make the very first time you run it.

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote: Still, I would do THIS anyway as it can't do any damage, and you might be suprised what a difference it will make the very first time you run it.

HA!

Crapcleaner screwed my Firefox install* to the point i had nuke firefox, then re-register DLLs to point them at IE, then Install firefox again.

*Firefox couldn't understand how to open links from other apps and the searchbar wouldn't work.

Nothing wrong with ccleaner, I've used it on every single machine I think I've ever come into contact with on every windows operating system you can think of, and it's been fine, and broke nothing.

Probably a dodgy/flaky install of Firefox

I have the same problem with Oblivion, even with the legit version I have just got hold of. All my other games are fine, especially now I have 2GB. My PC is pretty clean so it's something I'll just have to avoid doing.

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Nothing wrong with ccleaner, I've used it on every single machine I think I've ever come into contact with on every windows operating system you can think of, and it's been fine, and broke nothing.

Probably a dodgy/flaky install of Firefox

My Firefox install was fine before.

i use ccleaner if i need to, but generally i mistrust these apps because they're quite capable of fucking stuff up.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:i use ccleaner if i need to, but generally i mistrust these apps because they're quite capable of fucking stuff up.

When using the tools section in CC I use the click-n-pray technique

spoodie wrote:

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:i use ccleaner if i need to, but generally i mistrust these apps because they're quite capable of fucking stuff up.

When using the tools section in CC I use the click-n-pray technique

Pfft. yup.

It works!

It's the HP printer fucking it up. After task managering them to death Oblivion runs like a dream.

I'm going to do this with BEEF as well, as that seems to suffer the same problem (but without the crashing).

I'll try that CC thing later, I'm currently busy training up my Destruction skill.

A safer way is disabling startup programs using msconfig, as it doesn't permanently remove them.