Crash to desktop

[olseric]

Hi Scott,

CTD issues can be hard to diagnose because there is a wide variation of things that can cause it, among the top "culprits" are:

1. Excessive heat (generally leads to sluggish performance prior to any lock-ups or random reboots though)
2. Insufficient memory (FS is a hog!)
3. Poorly coded 3rd party add-ons (scenery is generally the main problem here)
4. Corrupted modules/DLLs

Start by ruling out #1 by looking into your CMOS to make sure the temps are within manufactuers specified limits. Then check #2. Look
at the size of your swap file (virtual memory as Windows calls it). If you have a decent size HDD, max this value out to 2X the total
installed RAM (i.e. You have 512MB RAM, make your swap file 1GB/1024MB).

Reboot and retry. If that's not helping move on to the other two. I wouldn't even bother with #4 though unless the fatal error that you get is
pointing to a specific DLL every time it happens.

Let us know how that works and if you need more suggestions, we're all happy to help!