Hrothgar

Join Date 11/2002

blue screen crash

I just got the game, and, in addition to frequent ctd's, I've had two blue screen crashes. Anyone esle?

After the second one, it took me twenty minutes and numerous tries just to get my computer to reboot. I'm worried about continuing to play.

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The beta's crashed on me quite a bit (unsurprisingly), but I've never had bluescreens myself.

I don't suppose you could provide the crash files from your BsoDs?

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I submitted the files which Elemental creates--altho the second blue screen crash didn't result in one. Are those the files you mean?

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Third blue-screen crash, once again followed by difficulty rebooting. I don't know enough about computers to know whether this may damage mine, so I think I'll have to wait for the next update before I play anymore.

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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BSODs typically indicate a driver flaw or hardware failure; the most any game can do is expose them.

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kyro, I have had a couple of BSD's on my machines that can handle sins at large maps(200+gw's) with large fleets at 8x and also even supreme commander forged alliance with huge maps and max player count and LARGE unit counts( maxing out unit counts typically) without ANY BSD's, and one of the BSD reboots was on win7 i7 box another was on an amd athlon 64 x2 6000+ with a gf8800gt ALL with latest drivers/updates/windows patches/updates.

harpo

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Updated the graphics card driver and took another chance. Three or four minutes in, another blue-screen crash.

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Update your Sound Card as well. That's been a headache in other games I've seen over the years. One that is often overlooked.

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The sound-card driver appears to be up to date.

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Just had my 2nd BSOD in beta 3. Message on screen indicated the problem was with an ATI dll. Have also had CDT with windows event viewer blaming the same file.

But, my ATI drivers are current.

Does Stardock talk to ATI & Nvidia about possible driver issues with their games ???

(XP sp3 32-bit, 3 gb ram, ati 5670 512mb & 10-6 drivers)

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Worse news--perhaps. I discovered that updating my graphics driver screwed up many other programs--including Nero. As I do a great deal of video editing on my computer, I need to be able to use Nero. So, I've had to rollback the graphics driver.

Of course, since I continued to experience repeated blue-screen crashes even after updating the driver, I haven't lost anything. But, I sincerely hope that Stardock will eliminate whatever problem is causing the crashes, because right now, the game is basically unplayable for me.

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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What error is being displayed on the BSOD specifically? That will generally give you a direction to look in, at least, to identify what issue your system is having.

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I also used to have BSOD issues with Elemental.

BETA 2 used to be the only thing I did that has ever caused a blue screen on my PC. The day I decided to go get the details and post here however I noticed BETA 3 had come out and after updating I haven't had a problem since.

I did think it odd at the time, especially as I run much more demanding games like Just Cause 2 etc, but like I said, the problem vanished in this BETA.

I also have an ATi card (4650) and usually run with the latest drivers. I'll have a dig around in the Windows error logs to see if I can find the details from the crash if it still exists.

I've also run memtest86+ to see if it is related to bad RAM but that sailed through with no errors.

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kryo

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especially as I run much more demanding games like Just Cause 2 etc

The game has some CPU utilization issues at present, so you probably won't find a more demanding "game" outside Prime95 until we get things under control.

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What error is being displayed on the BSOD specifically?

I can't remember most of them, but the last--and worst--one said something about a clock interrupt not being received by one of the processors.

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especially as I run much more demanding games like Just Cause 2 etc

The game has some CPU utilization issues at present, so you probably won't find a more demanding "game" outside Prime95 until we get things under control.

Nice - So now people can ask "yes, but can it run Crysis Elemental?"

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Quoting kryo,

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especially as I run much more demanding games like Just Cause 2 etc
The game has some CPU utilization issues at present, so you probably won't find a more demanding "game" outside Prime95 until we get things under control.

personally I find that prime95 is not as demanding as the OCCT burnin test that I run for 24 hours on completion of a personal system build with both over temp & stability sensitivity at max with the abort temp of 75 degrees C in full hyperthread mode(ie on a i7 930 it runs 8 threads to thrash the cpu/ram)

and OCCT can also stress test video cards as well as the rest of the system.

harpo

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I've had two different wording of BSOD messages, but I *think* they both referred to ATI-something. So graphics drivers, not sound. (Sorry, but I think I was wrong about the CTD messages referring to ATI files.) If it BSODs again I'll take a picture and post details later.

Note: for some hardware, advice to update drivers may not be helpful. When I was on ATI 2000-series card, I had problems with GalCiv2 & two versions of then-current late-2009 ATI drivers, so after a couple months I went back down to an early-2008 driver and all was well with GC2 and all my other games. I think by the time the 5-series was out, ATI driver-coders weren't thinking about the 2-series.

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