maverick7689

Yes I have tried that. Its about 4 years old. But seeing as it plays other games fine and has NO OTHER trouble besides this game, it seems more of an issue with the game

Tried that, makes no difference. I also keep the programs that run in the background to a minimum

No overclocking, I have tried to clean the case as best as I can and keep it on a desk with plenty of room aroud it for air flow. I know different games play differently but my point in mentioning GTA IV was to say I have plenty of vram/powerful enough hardware to play this game (according to the system req's). I have tried running as administrator, running in compatibility mode, not running in admin, I have tried all the different settings haha, but none make any difference. I have also run the game on one core, but didnt make a difference. I checked my performance monitor (in norton 360) and it shows "high CPU usage" by em4.exe (at least 97% of one CPU), but it isnt everytime I play the game, its only sometimes (even though the game crashes everytime). The strange part is sometimes I can play the exact same mission and one time I was able to complete the mission and other times as soon as I call a few units out it crashes, so thats what makes me think it isnt overheating because you'd think it would be somewhat consistent as to when it crashes. Yes tried that, but still no difference. Thanks for the continued help guys, hope we can figure this one out!

The computer has no trouble loading, it starts right up and loads in under a minute, la mod takes roughly a minute to two minutes to load. Then plays absolutely fine, no lag, nothing like that, all graphics show up fine, but it randomly shuts off. Graphics issues or lack of ram/vram would lag and crash to the desktop. I experienced lag and such with gta IV, but never ever had the computer shut off, but once or twice it would "stop responding" and crash to the desktop, and that was with all kinds of mods. That being said my computer is plenty capable of playing the game, I played just fine with an older computer (I used to have) with lower specs.

Emergencyfan97---I play on a desk and have cleaned the case, and I play much more demanding games and the laptop fans runs higher and the computer is hotter and has no trouble staying on and working correctly, so I have somewhat ruled that out Theparanoid----not sure I follow what you're getting at, I can play much more demanding games (like gta IV) without issues. I have even lowered the graphics settings on em4 to see if that helped, but it made no difference. The game plays fine and does not lag or anything up to the point where the computer just shuts off. I would think if ram/VRAM were the issue it would lag, freeze and or crash to the desktop not shut the whole computer off. I periodically see something in the log file about not being able to load muscle frame textures/ no skeleton or something to that effect, could this be a missing file issue or something to do more with my computer hardware?

Ya I considered that, but I have a hard copy of EM3 (which worked fine on my old desktop) and it did the same thing, so I thought it might be just that game and this computer not working well together, so I thought I'd get EM4 and maybe that would fix it (besides I just wanted EM4 haha). So that makes me hesitant to buy another copy of EM4, and other guys have the amazon copy and they work, so idk, this issue is really getting me.

I downloaded 911 FR from amazon a few days ago, and installation went fine. When I started to play my computer just shuts off after a while of playing (it could be a minute or two or it could be 20 min). I also installed the LA Mod, but the computer shuts off just the same with it installed or not. To describe the "crash" a little better: I will be playing a mission and all of a sudden the computer shuts off, no freeze or anything, it just plain turns off, like someone removed the battery. I have updated the BIOS, graphics card, directx, audio drivers, etc, anything I could think of before posting on here. I realize I have a dynlight error, but I have updated the graphics card and checked and rechecked that I installed correctly/downloaded the most current drivers. It doesnt seem to be an overheating issue because I have cleaned the dust out and I can play much more taxing games without the computer having any problems (civilization 5, sims 3, tropico 4, etc). It makes me think there's some issue with the software with the game I downloaded (from amazon), I have redownloaded and reinstalled, but nothing helps. I can't think of anything else to do, I have posted the log file and dxdiag. Any help would be greatly Appreciated. Dell 1555 Laptop Intel core 2 duo 2.8 GHz 4GB RAM ATI Mobility Radeon 4500/5100 series [attachment=12462:logfile.txt] [attachment=12463:DxDiag.txt] logfile.txt DxDiag.txt