Strange inopportune screen hangs

[dedalos]

Two questions...does it happen in offline mode, especially flying low...and are you using an Nvidia GeForce graphics card?

Ratheon.  Have not tried off line

[RoGenT]

Seems to happen in offline as well, plus being this computer is 10+ years old doesn't help much.

[Ardy123]

It looks like I'm not the only one so I posted an official bug report here
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,298007.0.html

Also, I think I narrowed it down, what is going on is windows is 'resetting' the driver because of a 'Video hardware error'. To see if this is the reason for you, go to

control pannel->Problem Reports and Solutions->view problem history

From there you should be able to select 'view a temporary copy of these files' where a folder will be opened and there should be a crash dump file.


here is what it should look like

Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:   LiveKernelEvent
OS Version:   6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID:   1033

Files that help describe the problem
WD-20100703-0054.dmp
sysdata.xml
Version.txt

 View a temporary copy of these files
Warning: If a virus or other security threat caused the problem, opening a copy of the files could harm your computer.

Extra information about the problem
BCCode:   117
BCP1:   FFFFFA80061014E0
BCP2:   FFFFFA600251BF9C
BCP3:   0000000000000000
BCP4:   0000000000000000
OS Version:   6_0_6002
Service Pack:   2_0
Product:   256_1