lfs starts and just shows a black screen was playing it fine 2 hours ago and left and came back and now it won't load up at all. it just says not responding. tried rebooting and even made a new lfs folder and redownloaded the game and it does the same thing.

i7 [email protected] ghz with 6 gigs of ram and a gtx 295. with vista 64 bit.

Sounds like an unstable system to me...

Try running your CPU at stock speed, does LFS run ok @ stock?

Have you peformed a soak benchmark test? (like prime95 100% load all cores for 24hrs solid)

Do you have other 3D games or benchmarks? do they all run fine?

New system or have you had it ages?

Good luck

SD.

its been o.c for the past 2 months now. its stable 24 hour running occt burn in. just played left for dead last night because i wasn't able to get lfs to start and it ran fine the whole time. the system was built by me January this year

You could try a system restore, to a few days ago and try it again, could you have had a power blip in the time your were away form the pc? possibly corrupting something that was in use?

Try running the dxdiag tests it might throw up a problem.

Right click the LFS.exe and try Run as admin?

open cfg file with notepad and changed the start windowed from 0 to 1(or other way round)

GFX card drivers up to latest version?

just a few things to try.

Goodluck

SD.

k i got it back working now ran a copy of spin rite on the hard drive. im starting to think this 1.5tb seagate drive is dieing slowly on me
the vista experience score for the hard drive is 5.7 every thing else in the system is 5.9 (max) and the hard drive use to be but it won't hit 5.9 any more 5.7 is the best it can pull.

Great news you got LFS running again

As for your slowing HDD I think its normal as the drive fills up for it to be a little slower, Im not sure tho.
I would strongly reccomend backing up on a regular basis, unbelivably I just had 2 drives die on me this week, and one was my backup drive! its at data recovery atm
I am about to order my first SSD I think it will be more reliable but you can never tell

SD.

Quote from SparkyDave :

Great news you got LFS running again

As for your slowing HDD I think its normal as the drive fills up for it to be a little slower, Im not sure tho.
I would strongly reccomend backing up on a regular basis, unbelivably I just had 2 drives die on me this week, and one was my backup drive! its at data recovery atm
I am about to order my first SSD I think it will be more reliable but you can never tell

SD.

what ssd you thinking about getting? been looking but there still a little to much. my 74 gig 10k rpm 5 year old rapter is hanging in fine still

as far as the full drive being slow they shouldn't be that much slower its more the registry that when more programs get installed and uninstalled it gets big and slows down the system

I will probably start with one of these 64Gb will be plenty for now, I picked up a WD velociraptor couple of years back, as my system drive, and did notice lower boot times etc.

I think SSD are about to jump in performance with another generation round the corner, maybe one day they will become cheap enough and large enough to realistically replace the HDD properly

SD.

pretty nice. im thinking mine might be a year or two away right now. as of right now this i7 is very quick but until it can be a 128+ and install os on 1 and another 128+ for games and what not i think im going to save up.

its doing it again won't start any copy of lfs up.