Computer Crashing..

well, it had been awhile since i played eb, and i decided to start playing again. but no matter with what faction, or how many times i reinstall, the game will cause my computer to crash.. whether it be on the campaign map or during a battle.. ive played EB since the beta with no problems.. well as minimal as it gets. this led me to believe that it was my computer.. i actually reformatted my computer in hopes of getting EB to work.. but even after that, it still crashes and shuts off my computer when i play.

sometimes i may be able to play a couple years with no crash, other times its every season.. any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Are you saying that EB crashes, or that your computer crashes? I suspect you have a hardware problem if it's your computer crashing. You should run memtest overnight, try to upgrade and downgrade your video drivers, and run a scandisk surface scan (another night).

These are listed in order of what I think is the likelyhood of error among them.

yes i meant my hole computer crashing, not EB. i appreciate your help, tho im not sure what a memtest is, looked in system tools and didnt see it.. do i need to download it? will try changing drivers and running a scandisk tonight, thanks for the help!

Memtest or memory test, a tool to check the condition of the RAM in your PC. Might be among the list of available options (in the menu with other options like 'Safe Mode') when you press F8 on start up.

In general, if there is mentioned something on the internet which you don't know what is, a quick search on Google will help. There are several products for stress-testing your memory, and Memtest is one of them which are free. You can also try Prime95, its primary purpose is testing whether overclocking works or not, but it can be useful for testing hardware too.

sorry, was in a rush when i posted. normally do google terms i dont know.. memtest came back with 0 errors, also did a scandisk, and just tried a newer driver for my video card.. computer still crashed, though i just found a newer driver, and am downloading it now. could it be caused by something else?

Yes, it could of course be something else. The problem is, I don't know what.

Does your computer only crash when playing EB? If that is true, I recently had a problem where my computer would freeze when loading only with EB. I eventually found out I had a bad motherboard after a few months when my computer wouldn't boot at all one day. One other thought is your computer may be overheating and causing your computer to crash, that happened to me for a while when ever I was on the computer for more then an hour, I think that is what ruined my mother board actually because I didn't know what it was for a couple of weeks and after cleaning my cpu and fan of dust it stopped overheating and shutting down on its own.

Few things to check.