Game crashing

[Dafka 0]

Hi,

Im having this problem when playing:

It started with the pc having a blue screen and restarting after playing for several hours (this happened a couple of times), the box was hot so i figured that the computer must have been overheating.

I opened it up and cleaned the cpu, it had a lot of dust and so on and by removing it i hoped to get rid of this problem, but now the game will "crash" 20/30 minutes in, almost immediatly after i start playing (this happened 3 or 4 times so far, in ivory tower crater and alligator island).

Basically the screen gets black and i have to restart the pc, I downloaded a temperature monitoring app and it was like 50ºC when this happened or maybe less (max t registered in the app was 60ºC overall). The other weird thing is that i played minecraft to test the temperature (¿that i imagine is as resource consuming as l2 at least?) and the temperature got even higher but nothing bad happened.

My computer is old but i tink its working fine (i have an i5-2310 CPU @ 2,9GHz with 8 RAM,  with a GeForce GT 430) and i havent got this problem with any other game or program, its weird.

Any ideas? (i already re installed the game a couple of times, updated drivers, and so on).

Well, probably its just an old computer giving trouble but i wanted to ask the forum before giving up.

Thanks to anyone that takes the time to read this and attempts an answer!

[Armagheton 13]

There are tons of problems can that cause those issue.

Since you jumped from BSOD to BS it can be a simple software problem or hardware issue. 

CPU rarely broke ( at least you didn't OC ) and 40 to 75°C it's just normal working temperature.

As first steps, like you partially did, try to:

1) reinstall L2

2) Update Driver ( Clean install )

3) Then, If the problem still occur, ty to reinstall Win

If after all this the problem it's still not solved than most likely it's a hardware issue and the best thing to do it's a stress test on every single component ( no. Minecraft it's not a stress test ).

Online you can find tools that will let you test out pc part like RAM, GPU, CPU, HDD etc....

If had to blindly pick up a HW culprit then my guess would go on the PSU .... it's generally the first thing that broke in a working PC. A bad PSU generally cause shutdown but can cause both BSOD and BS if components don't receive enough power.

Edited April 27, 2020 by Armagheton