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WoW: 100% chance to critical error (Hardware issues?)
rfalias
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Lots of text about a WoW critical error. Trying to diagnose if its a hardware issue or WoW being dumb.
So, this has been going on since 3.0.2 patch. It will critical error every so often until eventually I can't load in. It is the critical error reading file xxxxx in xxx.mpq. The specific file changes every time the error occurs, and after it is fixed it is something completely different. So one day it could be Azeroth_21_37.adt and the next it could be bakedtexture_11283714 in common.mpq.
I have done the following, with results that last usually less than a day or so. These are in chronological order.
1st - 5th error.
Repaired game, got back in.
These can happen all in one day or over the span of a week. Most of the time I get right back in or after a repair it lets me in.
6th error.
Repair game, still crashes just after it is done loading. Sometimes it won't load at all, other times it will load in and I can see and move for a second then it crashes.
I re-install wow, run prime95 and it picks up a rounding error very quickly. Changed the slots and voltage on my memory by .5v and prime95 runs with out that rounding error. Run WoW for a few days, happens again.
I install a second spare drive I had, move WoW to it, change my page file to run from this spare hdd and remove a stick of ram.
I raid all night and decide to put the other stick of ram back in, as its kinda laggy with out it. Run for a day, error happens again. This time, it wont load back.
So I ran prime95 again for over 8 hours while I slept, nothing came up when I checked this morning. So I copied the install folder over from my other hdd and it works fine. Is it possible that a bad stick of ram could be corrupting this install? This does not happen with anything else that I know of. I run fallout 3/l4d etc all just fine with no errors, and they consume a lot more resources than WoW.
I guess I could try it without that stick of ram and go with 1gb for a while. Any other thoughts?
So, this has been going on since 3.0.2 patch. It will critical error every so often until eventually I can't load in. It is the critical error reading file xxxxx in xxx.mpq. The specific file changes every time the error occurs, and after it is fixed it is something completely different. So one day it could be Azeroth_21_37.adt and the next it could be bakedtexture_11283714 in common.mpq.
I have done the following, with results that last usually less than a day or so. These are in chronological order.
1st - 5th error.
Repaired game, got back in.
These can happen all in one day or over the span of a week. Most of the time I get right back in or after a repair it lets me in.
6th error.
Repair game, still crashes just after it is done loading. Sometimes it won't load at all, other times it will load in and I can see and move for a second then it crashes.
I re-install wow, run prime95 and it picks up a rounding error very quickly. Changed the slots and voltage on my memory by .5v and prime95 runs with out that rounding error. Run WoW for a few days, happens again.
I install a second spare drive I had, move WoW to it, change my page file to run from this spare hdd and remove a stick of ram.
I raid all night and decide to put the other stick of ram back in, as its kinda laggy with out it. Run for a day, error happens again. This time, it wont load back.
So I ran prime95 again for over 8 hours while I slept, nothing came up when I checked this morning. So I copied the install folder over from my other hdd and it works fine. Is it possible that a bad stick of ram could be corrupting this install? This does not happen with anything else that I know of. I run fallout 3/l4d etc all just fine with no errors, and they consume a lot more resources than WoW.
I guess I could try it without that stick of ram and go with 1gb for a while. Any other thoughts?
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Try burning memtest86 and boot into it. leave it running overnight. Should kick back some errors if there is a problem with the ram
HDD that it is on now is brand spanking new from newegg. Powersupple is slightly aged. Year or 2 I'm sure.
Also, PSU brand makes a big difference on how long they last. Is it still in warranty? Whereas the cheapest PSUs die in less than a year, the better built ones will last and are warrantied for years and years.
Wait, you increased voltage on your RAM and it worked better? Your PSU is probably the culprit.
It was doing this much much worse before I increased the ram voltage by .5
Why WoW and not Fallout 3, or L4D both of which I run on highest settings 4xFSAA
WoW hasn't done it recently, and I've been on quite a bit. I'm just going to go the "keep a spare copy on my other hdd" route.