Comments on: Racing game runs Windows, crashes (pun)

By: Bielawski

Bielawski — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:03:57 +0000

Windows 2000 crash dialogs simply don’t have the white header and have no option to report errors to Microsoft (though the dialog text mentions that an error log was generated for admins)

By: rm20010

rm20010 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:05:45 +0000

AFAIK, that’s not Windows 2000. It’s probably some variant of Windows XP with themes turned off and error reporting disabled. I thought Windows 2000 crash dialogs were generated by Dr Watson?

By: Darcy

Darcy — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:57:51 +0000

Zim: “If other arcade games never fail, then the other operating system may be more reliable than Windows!”

Are you kidding me? Have you really never seen a crashed arcade machine? I used to work in my uncles gaming arcade when I was younger, and most of my days were spent resetting the machines and giving people their money back, none of them used Windows.

This isn’t a Windows crash anyway, its either the game, or some other 3rd party app.

By: Kd

Kd — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:09:58 +0000

Bad call Long. This is an application error.

By: Sven Groot

Sven Groot — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:37:07 +0000

Obviously it’s a problem with the application, not Windows itself.

And non-Windows machines aren’t immune to this either. I remember an arcade game at a camping in France, over a decade ago, which had software trouble like every other day. That was a Sega machine, iirc.

By: Beau

Beau — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:35:31 +0000

haha, nice find.

By: I work there

I work there — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:24:35 +0000

so wait a sec, is this a Windows problem, or a problem with the application crashing.

By: GRiNSER

GRiNSER — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:21:08 +0000

@zim: Well, I think the source of the failure is to be found in the source code of the game. The operating system which is not responsible for app errors. Another option could be a hardware defect which often results into app errors or bluescreens…

By: Ankur Mittal

Ankur Mittal — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:05:59 +0000

Really good news still using the old Windows 2000.

By: Zim

Zim — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:49:49 +0000

It’s funny. But instead of trying to get arcade.exe, maybe it will be better if we can get the operating system the other arcade machines use. If other arcade games never fail, then the other operating system may be more reliable than Windows! Two options: linux or something better and unknown.
Anyway, World In Conflict worked excellent with Windows!