BSOD/crash at launch of torrented games?

Question

I've been really confused as to why this keeps happening. My laptop ran games and torrented games just fine, but I just made a gaming computer and now it's getting all buggy. It plays normal games just fine, but none of my torrented games work. Every time I launch the game, it just shows the loading cursor then reboots or BSOD. there's someone who fixed this issue for XP, but I have Windows 7 and need help on that.

This is the link of the guy who fixed the old problem: http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/11589-ati-bsod-fixed-finally-it-will-help-all-of-you-ati3duag-dll-squeal-of-death-et.html

If anyone knows how, or knows someone who has fixed it, please inform me.


Processor-- 3.60GHz AMD DX-4100 quad-core
Ram-- 8gb
OS: Windows 7 64bit

If you just want to comment about how bad torrenting is, go away. I don't care. Besides, if I like the game then I buy it, like Skyrim.

Answer 1

I agree with the First answer- "torrent" does not equal to "piracy".



However, there are perfectly open software (read- really free to download) that some pundits messed with and hid a virus inside just to prank some people. I remember 3 years ago a copy of a certain lunux distro comes with a trojan.



Scan your PC. That is the best I can think of.



Sorry, I'm not much help.

Answer 2

Unfortunately the mere word "torrent" is associated with online piracy (mostly promoted as such by the music and movie industry in their greed-induced paranoia). Torrents have many legitimate uses (Linux distros, presentation dissemination, etc etc).



Now that my rant is over, back to BSOD. The causes for this are so varied it's massively hard to diagnose unless u provide the dump it created.



Often it's caused by bad or corrupt memory allocation. Data corruption is common. In the case of pirated items, often malware or a virus tags along which may create problems on your system. (not saying anything u downloaded is so infected).



My suggestion without knowing more is this:

1. Download and install "Malwarebytes" from here:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

It's free and is an almost essential tool nowadays.

Install, update and run it.



2. Download and install "Spybot Search and Destroy" from here:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

It's free and will supplement Malwarebytes.

Install, update and run it.



3. Install your favourite virus software if u haven't already. There are good free anti-virus programmes (such as Avast and AVG).

Answer 3

It isn't unlawful in case your pal has the video games already purchased in view that this could be regarded having a "again-up". Otherwise, sure, it's unlawful in view that he's circumventing copyrighted fabric which he does now not possess.