[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Arryn:
What M$ OS are you running now? And if it's XP Pro, what app(s) have you found that can take out the OS when the app crashes? I'm sincerely curious as I've yet to find one.

I mentioned X-Com, of course, although there are several other cases of a program crashing, immediately setting off a BSOD and taking out the rest of the operating system with it. I've had this happen in GalCiv also, and several others whose names elude me at this moment.

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You didn't answer re: what OS you use. I can't get X-COM to work under XP Pro. But it doesn't take the OS out. At least not on my machine. Different hardware (and drivers) behave differently (an obvious statement that's not always obvious to everyone), so my eXPerience may not be typical. OTOH, I go out of my way to cherry-pick hardware components to make a stable machine. (Tom's Hardware helps a lot with this.)