Blue Screen of Death with some sound cards
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Using the Steam version, I'm still getting BSOD after using -swa. Is there a Steam equivalent for --nosound? I would like to be able to take the sound card out of the equation entirely to determine whether the problem is sound, graphics, or my CPU.
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" --nosound should work in Steam as well. Just add it to the launch parameters. | |
" Good call, --nosound worked (to get rid of the sound, anyway). Hopefully that's the end of my issues. | |
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I've never had any problems before today and I was playing for all of about 20 minutes. Tried to zone into Chamber of Sins level 1 from Crossroads and I immediately get a BSOD. I reload the game to see if it occurs again and sure enough, trying to zone into Chamber of Sins results in the same BSOD. I alt+tab out to see if there are any error messages and I'm presented with multiple windows referring to OGG files.
Ironically enough, I can zone into multiple other areas EXCEPT for the Chamber of Sins. However, I then try to go elsewhere and out of nowhere I get another BSOD. Any of the hyphen "temporary fixes" have done nothing. I haven't ever had any problems with this game since this last patch. I spent $270 buying the supporter pack because I loved this game but now I am extremely let down and that I've dumped my hard earned money into something that I can no longer access. Please do something about this quickly. I love the game but now I'm left without the ability to play. Don't make my money go to waste, that is all I'm asking. | |
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I have the creative X-Fi sound card. I can't follow the directions given however, because my regedit doesn't display a drivers folder in the directory given. Any ideas what I can do? Once it get to the desired folder, there is one file called "Default" and a folder called Database (-> a couple more folders which all have "default" or "Default" & "installresource"
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#BondOfPain: "No place is a sh***y place when you get to kill apes with a stick" | |
" Hey there, I'm sorry to hear you're having this trouble. If you could please email us a copy of your DxDiag, we can look at other possible causes for this issue. Our email address is support@grindinggear.com, and here is a guide to generate a DxDiag report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poq-BorOSHU " Did you first try the -swa and -ns strings? |
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" It seems my issue is with my video card drivers (ATI Radeon 6850 - latest drivers) at least according to the error report feedback from Microsoft. They say install latest drivers which I have, they say if that doesn't work turn off hardware acceleration, but I can't play the game w/o that (it won't even start). What actually happens with great frequency is a hard crash when I quit the game. | |
" Have you tried using -ns / --nosound? As for drivers, you may want to try using the older ones, specifically 12.4 & 12.10(if --nosound doesn't change anything). |
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I will try nosound but I am pretty sure it actually is a video issue; the last time it happened I noticed that things had stopped highlighting the way they used to (like vendors' bodies) and when I quit I went to desktop and as soon as I clicked on something the mouse cursor froze I got a beep and a hard lockup. If I get the problem again with --nosound then I will try drivers only with no CCC and if that doesn't do it I will try a driver rollback to one of the ones you suggested.
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Yes I tried the -softwareaudio and -nosound options...it lasted a while longer than usual but i still got one...within 30 minutes instead of before it was more like 10-15min
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#BondOfPain: "No place is a sh***y place when you get to kill apes with a stick" |
