Greetings all!
Just recently my PC has been killing my games when I LAN with friends. It seems to happen every 20 mins or so: We would be gaming (this seems to happen on many games, examples: Halo pc, Unreal tournament GOTY, Unreal tournament 2004, etc) and my game would suddenly minimise to desktop, with all the other PCs in the LAN freezing (even if I'm not hosting). After a minute or so I can maximise the game and this returns everything to normal (however some people have to log out and re-enter the game again, cancelling their scores). Very annoying...
I know its my PC thats doing it! It's like my PC has AIDS... I cant LAN with anybody anymore, or I crash their game!
I run WinXP Pro, and I've tried gaming without my firewall and virus scanner (killed via TaskManager for the test) but it still happens. I haven't changed my setup in a long time, the only thing I upgrade are my virus definitions and software for my AntiVir virus scanner. I sometimes receive error messages when this happens, as I can remember only UT gives me these messages, an example is below:
General protection fault!
History: MessagePump <-MainLoop
Whether this has any relevance or not I dont know... But all I know is this is annoying the *censored* outta me. Any HELP would be much appreciated!
Draken.