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 Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 07:08 Post subject: I think Hitman Blood Money destroys harddrives |
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Yup, I had first installed it on my 5 year old 120GB ATA drive which has never had a single problem and after I had beaten blood money on normal, that drive would randomly click and cause windows to crash. So, I installed windows on my brand new 300 gig drive that I had gotten just a few weeks ago and installed blood money on that, figuring it was just the other HDD's time to go. Sure enough, shortly after I beat the game on the next difficulty down, that drive began randomly clicking and give me a BSOD and crash. Formats did not affect either drive, as they'll both do the whole click & crash thing now at random times even after a reinstallation of windows. I just lost about $200 in drives due to that game.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 10:54 Post subject: |
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Game kills HDD  i think your imagination is working good! 
/EDITED "Post some info CPU/RAM/Video...."
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 11:20 Post subject: |
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check your power supply or something like that...
sorry for bad eng....
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IbSta
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 22:01 Post subject: Re: I think Hitman Blood Money destroys harddrives |
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| IbSta wrote: | | Oleander wrote: | | Yup, I had first installed it on my 5 year old 120GB ATA drive which has never had a single problem and after I had beaten blood money on normal, that drive would randomly click and cause windows to crash. So, I installed windows on my brand new 300 gig drive that I had gotten just a few weeks ago and installed blood money on that, figuring it was just the other HDD's time to go. Sure enough, shortly after I beat the game on the next difficulty down, that drive began randomly clicking and give me a BSOD and crash. Formats did not affect either drive, as they'll both do the whole click & crash thing now at random times even after a reinstallation of windows. I just lost about $200 in drives due to that game. |
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deelix
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 22:07 Post subject: |
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You can't be sure its the game fault.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 22:10 Post subject: |
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| deelix wrote: | | You can't be sure its the game fault. |
I don't know what else it could be. After the first drive failed, I unplugged it from the powersupply and the motherboard, and then reinstalled ONLY windows and blood money off the image I backed up. Blood money and the DX9 it came packaged with were the only things I installed, and that drive failed shortly after as well.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Jun 2006 22:14 Post subject: |
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Nidhogg
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 02:02 Post subject: |
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Freak coincidence, nothing else.
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 02:21 Post subject: |
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I dunno about the Hard drive thing. But I do know Hitman, when it crashes, fucks up my Windows Explorer and I have to reboot.
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 10:41 Post subject: |
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| Nidhogg wrote: | | Freak coincidence, nothing else. |
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 13:13 Post subject: |
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I would have laughed at this like most of you if something similar didnt happen to me.
So I installed Tycoon City NY, mounted clone and played fine. The next day, after playing for extensive ammount of time I exited the game, and right after that pc goes all slow, one of hdds, my 200 gigger, which had clone on it that have I mounted to play the game, started making weird noises and barely working which lead to lockup.
So I thought "FUCK, I just lost 200 gigger". But after reboot everything was back to normal. So I thought "Oh well, was just some random bullshit" and continued with the game. Afer another extensive Tycoon City NY gaming I exited and same exact shit started to happen, terrible HDD sounds like it was dieing, slowly stopped to respond and eventually lockup.
Uninstalled the game and not gonna touch it ever again. Didn't have any problems like that with that particular HDD or any other nor did I have problemd with any games since then.
Freak coincidence? X-files? Bad weather? You tell me.
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Nidhogg
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2006 13:30 Post subject: |
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So what should it be instead then? Maybe some new undetectable copy protection that only happens to a handful of people all over the world? 
If this happened more often, there'd be a lot more talk about it all over the usual places. Heck, even the big news sites would surely report about such a story (remember the SF "rumors").
Every HDD has movable parts which can cause noises. It all depends on where on the HDD the files are stored, how old it is, and yes, even the weather has an influence. Heat and moisture are known to be hardware killers, a dusty environment could be a factor...
That a game itself is responsible for such a behaviour is hard to believe. Like I said, if that were the case, there'd be a lot more users having similar problems. But as this isn't the case, I'm sticking with my "freak coincidence".
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Jun 2006 15:47 Post subject: |
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hmm
i hade a similar problem...
i have an extern hdd with all my stuff on. i dont know exactly when but in the same time as i got hitman something wierd happend. when i tryed to pput the hdd on it just klicks....it klicked for about 20 mins before it worked....next time i started the hdd i tryed to got it working for about 36 hours!! it just klicking and the light turns red...green..... one day after work i came home it worked again...my friend found this thread and i deleted hitman the same moment...havent turnd the hdd of yet..in fear of loosing all the data. but it seems to me that its very possible that hitman cuase something...my friends hdd changed labels and stuff after installing hitman.....
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Jun 2006 17:02 Post subject: |
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yea...blame starforce, even when it's securom...
LOL
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Jun 2006 17:10 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Jun 2006 15:20 Post subject: |
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WOAHH, had the same problem now.
When you walk along with the baking soda and are being checked by that gangster in the first level, suddenly when that gangster raises that stick to check me, my PC restarts and now comes the best "BOOT DISK FAILURE". I got lucky that I could repair my system with the Windows CHKDSK-function.
So it must be the game cos I didnt have that one before with any other game.
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Jun 2006 15:33 Post subject: |
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| psychorob77 wrote: | WOAHH, had the same problem now.
When you walk along with the baking soda and are being checked by that gangster in the first level, suddenly when that gangster raises that stick to check me, my PC restarts and now comes the best "BOOT DISK FAILURE". I got lucky that I could repair my system with the Windows CHKDSK-function.
So it must be the game cos I didnt have that one before with any other game. |
i think you have hardware problem not "Game Problem thing"  |
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Jun 2006 16:49 Post subject: |
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maybe i instaled the game and after few days my pc crash
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Jun 2006 18:33 Post subject: |
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Like a game would destroy hardware like this... You're just having some bad luck dude, chill out and relax...
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Jun 2006 09:56 Post subject: |
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Wasn't it that crack that was for the demo patch and not for the full game? I think it was and it made the game crash, savegames get lost....?
try with 1.0 or use mini-image...
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| Posted: Sun, 11th Jun 2006 11:08 Post subject: |
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I played HBM patched to 1.1 with the reloaded .exe and played fine up to a point - in "You better watch out" the minute I layed down the Sniper briefcase or tried to set up a bomb, the game exited to desktop with no errors. So, the point is that if you patched the game to 1.1 and use anything else than the original exe - there's gonna be trouble. Maybe my system took it well, and not give me a serious error - like some people here.
But if you're having HDD trouble, be sure to change your ATA cable - I could fill up a page of what mess did to me one faulty ATA cable. And the first simptoms were disk boot failures and disk read errors.
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| Posted: Sun, 11th Jun 2006 15:56 Post subject: |
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Finally I found the solution to that HDD crash problem.
It was the exe-file from the demo that caused that crash. Fortunately I could get my system back to work. BUT don't use the exe if want to avoid any problems.
If u wanna play the game with version 1.1 just use a mini-image and securom loader. That worked for me 100%
Thx for all your help!
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