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[Lost Requiem]

I know, it's blasphemy, right?

Well, an issue happened earlier today where Dwarf Fortress crashed and something in the folder caused my entire computer to go haywire and completely disconnect my E drive (where everything important to me lies). I was unable to get my computer back to normal working order for nearly 9 hours today (I just got back online), and I felt like I was going to have a heart attack because I thought my hard drive was dying. Now that I deleted the folder, everything is back in working order (coincidence?), but I don't think I want to revisit Dwarf Fortress and risk this again. Not until I have a backup of all my important documents safely tucked away in a brand new external hard drive.

[Monsterfurby]

I can understand that you are now somewhat phobic of starting DF up again. What OS are you on? This might be one of the rare occasions where starting it up in non-administrator mode (Win XP/Vista/7) or on a virtual machine (any OS, try using D-Fend/DOSBox; also works for windows games without any performance loss or much additional hassle) might actually be useful. Even though I doubt that DF alone could have caused this, that might put your mind at ease.

[bluephoenix]

Are you 100% sure that DF is the cause of this? DF could have crashed because the hard drive disconnected (you have it on E right?) I played DF for two years and never had anything like this happen.
A virus perhaps?

[Yolan]

Sorry to be a pain OP, but have you considered that maybe your avatar image is not so appropriate for this forum?

[Urist McDepravity]

If your PC is failing under high load, this is PC issue rather than DF.
Just deleting DF and ignoring the true cause is kind of dumb, it will fail again independent of DF presence.

[Thief^]

Are you 100% sure that DF is the cause of this? DF could have crashed because the hard drive disconnected (you have it on E right?)

This, I'm afraid.

[tfaal]

Sorry to be a pain OP, but have you considered that maybe your avatar image is not so appropriate for this forum?

It's really a mixture of the image and the text underneath it that makes it offensive.

[Ephemeriis]

If you're really worried about DF eating your PC, just run it in a VM.

VirtualBox is a great, free VM that I use all the time.

[Lost Requiem]

When the initial crash happened (In the game), I decided to make a new region, but when I tried to load up the region (after it was created), the application crashed. So I remade the world and deleted the old one. THat one crashed, too.

Then everything went to hell from there.

When I got back online, I deleted the DF folder, but the region 1 file won't delete entirely. There is a 0x80070091 error that pops up when I try to. I'm also doing spyware scans and a chkdsk scan, and nothing malicious is coming up. And now that I deleted the DF folder and restarted the computer, everything is working normally again. It's just that one folder that I can't delete now.

[Jordrake]

Sorry to be a pain OP, but have you considered that maybe your avatar image is not so appropriate for this forum?

You- you remember what forum you're on, right? I doubt most of the people on this forum are offended by something so tame.

[thvaz]

I play DF for four years and never nothing even remotely close happened to me. I think I never even needed to restart my system because a DF crash.

[freeformschooler]

When the initial crash happened (In the game), I decided to make a new region, but when I tried to load up the region (after it was created), the application crashed. So I remade the world and deleted the old one. THat one crashed, too.

Then everything went to hell from there.

When I got back online, I deleted the DF folder, but the region 1 file won't delete entirely. There is a 0x80070091 error that pops up when I try to. I'm also doing spyware scans and a chkdsk scan, and nothing malicious is coming up. And now that I deleted the DF folder and restarted the computer, everything is working normally again. It's just that one folder that I can't delete now.

I don't know about you but that sounds like a case of a corrupted file somewhere on your system. The only time I've seen Windows (of any version) have a GUI pop up error pointing to a memory address (presumably for debugging) while doing file operations is when dealing with files that have become corrupted in some way.

I don't really blame you for blaming DF. If things explode in your face it's easier to say what seems more logical than "LOL I DUNNO". Considering you said you ran CHKDSK it might not be corrupted files after all, though.

Also you guys, the image/text is a little offensive but it's nothing any respectable adult (which we all are here, right? ..right?) should get their undergarments in a bunch about.

[Dakk]

Not all of us are adults, though, pretty sure we have at least a few users below or around 15 years old. *shrugs*

Anyway, I don't think DF caused your problem, I've played nearly all versions in the last two years and none have caused me any sort of trouble like this. Since you ran CHKDSK and found no corrupt files, I dare say it could be something in your E drive, possibly a virus.

[Jake]

I think my sig says it all.

[Jordrake]

Not all of us are adults, though, pretty sure we have at least a few users below or around 15 years old. *shrugs*

I'm 14.
I'm gonna stop being off-topic here, and unfortunately have no technical knowledge whatsoever.