Crashing to black screen sound remains

[aairon]

I know that there have been other posts like this but not exactly.

I'm running vista x86 svc pk2 and a gts-250 gfx card I don't recall having this issue before but this is a completely new install.

When flying in campaigns I am now getting a crash to black screen and still have sound but I can also tell that the game is frozen as the controls have no effect for example gear down I should hear that, also change collective has no effect on sound.

It seems to happen most when changing views from external camera to cockpit to look at the abris.

I get no error reports other then 'windows shut down unexpectedly' because that's the only way to get out of the black screen, by holding the power button for a few seconds, the reset button seems to act normal except that the screen remains black throughout the reboot and never comes back only a hard reset by holding the power button fixes it.

Obviously it's not heat related but seems to have some other cause.

I run much newer games that stress both the GPU and CPU to a much greater extent then black shark does and have no issues there. this is the only program that does this on my computer.

Any clues will be much appreciated.

Edited October 21, 2013 by aairon

[ShuRugal]

black shark 1, 2, or World? If World, then that x86 version of windows is your problem. DCS World no longer supports x86.