Of stop errors, hardware acceleration, and gaming

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2006-10-23 12:54pm

Crash analysis.

Okay, so the situation is as follows: Over the past couple of days, Dawn of War has started producing stop errors when I play it. I tried turning down hardware acceleration to fix it, and my games started refusing to run maximized, instead running in little windows. Turning hardware acceleration back up has not fixed the problem, though when it isn't maximized, Dawn of War apparently just spontaneously shuts down instead of murdering the operating system. What gives?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-10-23 01:06pm

Did you recently upgrade the drivers prior to this situation?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2006-10-23 01:10pm

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2006-10-23 06:22pm

Great. I upgraded the driver, which fixed the stop error problem, but not the problem of it running in an 800x600 window. I increased the resolution to 1280x1024 in game, which did fix that problem, but it still restricts my mouse movement to an 800x600 square in the upper left of the screen, meaning I can't reach the controls. I think I might have just rendered the game unplayable.