First post, by jonaszoon
It's not really a big problem, but I'm really curious why/how this happens. I've had this problem with Sierra's 'newer' games, using the SCI system. But I'm not excluding the possibility of other DOS-based games having these same problems.
It goes like this: I boot up a Sierra SCI game. While playing them, sometimes, at certain point, the game reports errors (files not found, etc.). This is not always the case. What is always the case however, is that at a certain point, I'll get thrown back to my XP desktop, and all(!) my background apps (e.g. Total Commander, DC++, MSN Messenger) are having weird or random fatal errors! Besides that, the computer is extremely slow, that is, until you close the game. I'm having this behaviour on both my computers, one with Windows XP SP1 and the other one with SP2.
Is this somekind of XP-related memory leak or faulty memory allocation? I'm no expert on the inner workings of an OS by any means, but if this is the case, isn't this a rather 'dangerous' situation that shouldn't be happening at all?
