Hi Allen, hope you are well !!
Dont torture yourself......1st, get a link for SlimDx Runtime, its easy as pie to run the installer and have it "repair" itself. I kept a copy and will send a link. 2nd, maybe you have done this but if your running Windows then run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, it can find faulty RAM. It takes 2 passes to finish, each pass takes about an hour so patience is required, also beforehand close all apps, the tool will restart the PC then run, once finished it will restart the PC again and report if any issues found. If you do have a problem it will also say so while running and you can just exit instead of waiting for it to run through the entire process. That will at least tell you if you have any memory issues. Apps randomly closing is a sign of a potential memory problem. 3rd, if your running windows, and maybe you tried this as well, get into the windows command prompt (administrative), just type command in the windows search bar and click on the command with administrative rights and it will open a window. Type SFC /Scannow and it will launch the system file check service, if it finds any issues it will attempt to fix them, if it can't it will say so. When its done just type EXIT at the prompt.
Hate to see a fellow LOGic user have these annoying issues !!
Let us know !!
Best 73, de Brad K8ZM
PS: Was having issues with windows randomly restarting and random apps closing. Not often and no pattern but just a couple times over a few months. At the point of "I'm too damn old for this %$#& !! I ran the memory diagnostic tool and it reported memory issues. Took the PC in for service and they reported the same issue. Had the ram replaced, full diagnostics done and memory re-tested, all was good till the next day and same issues except worse. Back in the next day and they found the CPU was the problem, swapped it out for a new (and better) CPU and all good so far. Running almost 24 hrs now with heavy use and many apps running concurrently, no issues.
