On 04/17/2010 08:28 AM, jackcorbae wrote:
Dragon Age and The Sims 3 have both started displaying an annoying problem - spontaneous complete system reboot! No warning and no error logs (that I can find). Just a complete system reboot. Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 with an NVidia GTX 260 - first noticed with Wine 1.1.41 with Dragon Age and then 1.1.42 with Dragon Age and the Sims 3. The Sims 3 was installed via PlayOnLinux.
Ouch. I had that problem one time, and after months of troubleshooting it as a potential Wine or video driver issue, it unfortunately it turned out to be a defective EVGA video card (why I never buy that brand anymore).
No software problem, short of the most extreme driver issue, should cause Linux to reboot like that. A good test would be to install Sauerbraten. Play it for a little bit and see if you get the same issue. It was the only native Linux game I could find that stressed the card enough to consistently cause the same reboots when I was experiencing them. At the very least, that will potentially tell you that there's a problem outside of Wine.
Good Luck! -J
