RIFT (MMORPG) crashed my PC?

[jorbro701]

Over the past two days, RIFT (MMORPG) has crashed my PC twice. It happened tonight when accepting a resurrection and alt tabbing and it happened yesterday when alt tabbing in/out of RIFT. My music in the background was playing, but my keyboard and I presume my mouse too but I couldn't check as the screen froze. I had to hard restart both times to fix it. Any idea anyway I can fix it? I have ran virus scanners and it is not a virus - I used Malwarbytes, Hitman Pro and Avast to scan.

My specs are:
Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3820 (3.6GHz) 10MB Cache
Motherboard - ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79: SOCKET 2011, R.O.G
Memory (RAM) - 8GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS QUAD-DDR3 1600MHz X.M.P
Graphics Card - 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory -2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
Power Supply -CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE
Processor Cooling - INTEL CERTIFIED LIQUID CPU COOLER FOR SOCKET LG2011
Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy™ SE
Keyboard: Microsoft Sidewinder X4 (UK Layout)
Mouse: Roccat Kone +

[baron75mk2]

did you say you were running media player in the background ( for your music to be playing that is) whilst playing a full screen game ? , if so that will probably be why its crashing the pc - i know it can be done but its not a good idea generally

[Kalisnoir]

did you say you were running media player in the background ( for your music to be playing that is) whilst playing a full screen game ? , if so that will probably be why its crashing the pc - i know it can be done but its not a good idea generally

I've always played music in the background of gaming, even back on my old rig with 4GB of RAM it was perfectly fine, he has 8GB and I highly doubt Rift + WMP would use it all.

I'd recommend making sure your Video Drivers are up to date, you'd be surprised how many problems it can cause having out of date ones.

[baron75mk2]

I've always played music in the background of gaming, even back on my old rig with 4GB of RAM it was perfectly fine, he has 8GB and I highly doubt Rift + WMP would use it all.

I'd recommend making sure your Video Drivers are up to date, you'd be surprised how many problems it can cause having out of date ones.

I did not say anything about ram at all - its a conflict in direct x (mainly direct sound) with some games - wouldnt hurt to just try playing without wmp in background to see if the problem goes away.

[LFFPicard]

alt tabbing can also cause a issue with some games.
Maybe try running rift in windowed mode for a while and see hwo that goes.