Game occasionally locks up and *will not* go away

[mousekiro]

This may be a quirk of my (4+-year-old) laptop in particular, but it'd be nice if it wasn't and somebody knew a solution.

Occasionally, while I'm playing TOME, the game will lock up and become non-responsive. I don't think this is a too-advanced-graphics issue, as it's happened while I've been on my inventory screen and cheerfully transmogrifying stuff without a boss or special effect in sight.

It sits there taking up the whole screen with the little circle cursor hovering uselessly, and trying to tab out of it doesn't work -- it tries to stay always-on-top, and the only way to get into another program is to use Task Manager to minimise it.

I wouldn't actually mind this if the game would then proceed to go away. But the "This program has stopped working" dialogue box does absolutely nothing when I click the "close" arrow. Going back into Task Manager and selecting End Process on t-engine.exe does nothing. Ending process tree from Resource Monitor or some other source (which seems like it should be the same thing, but has oddly worked on a couple of recalcitrant programs in the past) does nothing. Someone suggested opening a command prompt and using something called Taskkill. It reported that it had successfully closed the program. It had not. The wretched thing was still there. Someone else suggested starting a new Explorer session. This killed everything except TOME. It seems like the only way of getting it to go away is to reboot the computer.

I suppose I could always start a second copy of TOME, but I'd be worried about making something mess up with regard to my data -- and I'd inevitably switch to the wrong one next time I was tabbing around, which would be annoying.

I'm on Windows 7, if that makes any difference.

[Marson]

I doubt this is the problem, but you can try disabling Windows Error Reporting.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ ... dows-7.htm

I've found it to be really annoying, as the dialog will sometimes hide behind other windows, which prevents *anything* from happening with the program you are trying to kill until you clear it. You probably would have seen it if that was happening to you, but disabling it at least removes one variable from the situation.