Vista/Dell Memory Parity Error

[archaeolept]

i'd reinstall dominions, just in case there's something corrupt with it. When do you get the blue screens? during new turn calculations or while viewing battles or what? If the latter, I'd certainly look around for updated video drivers.

I'd think a driver issue would be the most likely cause of a memory parity error. d/l and run from a pre-windows environment either microsoft's memory tester or memtest86. Dell's own hardware tests are fairly weak; probably because they like their under-warranty hardware to pass it

[Thierry]

Thanks for your insights.

I never got those during turn calculation. Always when going from one screen to the other.

Generally from clicking on the turn summary screen.

what buggers me is that if I have a real RAM issue, my whole PC is unsafe. Still I only got problems with Dom3. That's weird !

I'll try a reinstall of Dom3 that's certainly an excellent idea.

I check my RAM through the bios boot menu : no failure... Except for DOM3, my VISTA is quite stable. I never experienced something strange (for VISTA !) with it.

[Ornedan]

The BIOS RAM check doesn't really do a comprehensive test. Get some Linux livecd and select the memory test boot option (aforementioned memtest86). Leave it running for a full test cycle, which should take an hour or two.
Ubuntu install disc can do it. Just remember to not select the install option unless you really want to :P