Hi When playing a Flight Sim sometimes my PC crashes and reboots itself when the action gets a bit heavy, below are the specs of my PC and the game My PC - Model : MSI MS-6747 Chassis Type : Desktop Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Processor : Number Of Processors : 1 Hyper-Threading Enabled Type : Intel Pentium 4 3066 MHz Package : Socket 478 mPGA Manufacturer Codename : Northwood Clock Speed : 3068 MHz Clock Multiplier : 23.0 Front Side Bus (FSB) Speed : 532 MHz L2 Cache Size : 512 KBytes Stepping : C1 Trace Width : 0.13 Microcode : 37h Instruction Sets : MMX, SSE, SSE2 Motherboard Manufacturer : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD Model : MS-6747 Rev. Not Available CPU Slot/Socket Type : Socket 478 mPGA Chipset Vendor : Intel i865P/PE/G/i848P Rev. A2 Bios Manufacturer : Phoenix Technologies, LTD Bios Version : 6.00 PG Graphics Brand : MSI Model : nVidia GeForceFX 5200 Slot : AGP GPU Core: NV34 GPU Speed : 250 MHz Video Ram Size : 256 MB Video Ram Type : DDR Video Ram Speed : 203 MHz Driver Version : 6.14.10.4533 DirectX Installed : Version 9.0c Available Slot : AGP 3.0 Storage Hard Drive 1 : ST3160021A Size : 152.63 GB Hard Drive 2 : SAMSUNG HD400LD Size : 381.55 GB Memory Total RAM Installed : 2048 MB Type : DDR DIMM PC3200 Used RAM Slots: 2 of 2 What the game needs - Windows XP Processor Pentium III or AMD Athlon 1 GHZ Memory - 512mb 3D Card- 64 mb Minimum HDD- 4Gb space Any ideas why the PC might be crashing ?
Your graphics card is the absolute bare minimum for the game's requirements really, but shouldn't cause you crashes. You should check to see if the PC is overheating. Go inside and check all the fans are spinning, and clean out all the dust.
