Then I updated all my graphics card drivers (which apparently needed to be updated), and reinstalled Minecraft. So I restarted the computer, returned the XMP profile to disabled (no PC crashes since), and uninstalled Minecraft. So in the next world, which I seeded in snow-capped mountains, I enabled cheats and used console commands to resource the materials needed to build a crying obsidian palace on a mountain, then an extremely long skybrige to the next mountain. There is a certain psychological benefit of digging for resources, then using them to build pointless structures. The addiction for me is not completing the game, or a mission or whatever, but just building shit. Somehow that corrupted the world I had built (also, at some point earlier Minecraft had changed my name to Steve, but that’s besides the point). Within 20 minutes I got a blue screen of death, while I was playing Minecraft. Then my eldest son, the IT guy, suggested I enable my XMP profile to get more juice out of my RAM sticks. I had a nether portal, a few dozen diamonds, and was just building a sky bridge station in the forest. I had built myself a tiny underground palace, two ridiculous deep single corridor mines, and completed five sections of a sky bridge connecting islands. I had been grinding for a few days, and had collected numerous chests full of materials. But that thought didn’t hit me until my first blue screen of death that corrupted my first Minecraft world, which was fantastic. It might have to do with my recent PC build. My tower in the sky, my castle under construction (Image: Curtis Silver / KnowTechie) The screen just loses all graphics, and I jump around for a minute and it all comes back. I’m not exactly sure why, and the crashes don’t take me out of the game. Thanks to numerous factors including adult-aged children, not working seven days a week, a pandemic that has forced us to burrow into our home offices and a penchant for a new addiction - I have time now.īut it keeps crashing. I had time to drop into an online match in Call of Duty or get my ass kicked in a game of Madden, but I knew I wouldn’t have time to collect resources and build a world. When it was released back in 2011, it was purchased for the household, but I refused to play it. After nearly a decade of some kid pressuring me to download and play Minecraft, I finally relented and did so last week.
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