Game randomly stalls/crashes

[rumster]

Hello. Had this in beta already and since it still persists, maybe any here have some advice?

So, the game just halts after 5-15min of play and sound keeps looping in the background. After some seconds the game usually continues, but if I keep playing, eventually it always crashes.

A few times Ive gotten the windows message that display driver caused a problem or something like that so that's probably where it comes from.

Vista 32bit

Intel Core2 quad 9300

4gb

Nvidia gtx285

Creative X-fi fatality

I think every driver is up to date.

edit: why won't this text stay paragraphed lol

Edited June 19, 2010 by rumster

[rumster]

Anyone else having similar problems? It's quite unplayable at the moment, so any ideas appreciated..

[gtanner]

Anyone else having similar problems? It's quite unplayable at the moment' date=' so any ideas appreciated..[/quote']

Bad Nvidia driver versions have done this to me in the past, either be 100% sure you have the latest driver for your card or even perhaps rollback to a previous version.

[rumster]

Tried the previous drivers and even the ones before those, thought it was better but after 2 days or so it started again. Getting told it's the nvidia drivers for sure, so maybe they get some drivers out that work with BGE or then I just don't play. This sucks big time.

[GOPHUR]

I dunno rumster. I don;t have that card but I do have a 260 and it runs just fine.

Are you running any OC on that rig? What are temps looking like?

[OLDZEKE]

Anyone else having similar problems? It's quite unplayable at the moment' date=' so any ideas appreciated..[/quote']

Nvlddmkm error? If so that's a vista prob as old as vista....And I've forgot the fix. It may have been booting to safe mode and removeing the driver via driver cleaner (making sure not to remove chipset drivers if useing a mobo with nvidia chipset).

But honestly I can't remember for sure.

If it is nvlddmkm then google it and read what you can find on the nvidia forums as to a fix.

[rumster]

I dunno rumster. I don;t have that card but I do have a 260 and it runs just fine.

Are you running any OC on that rig? What are temps looking like?

I have no OC and temps are now 45-55deg C after I turned cooling up to be sure.

[rumster]

Nvlddmkm error? If so that's a vista prob as old as vista....And I've forgot the fix. It may have been booting to safe mode and removeing the driver via driver cleaner (making sure not to remove chipset drivers if useing a mobo with nvidia chipset).

But honestly I can't remember for sure.

If it is nvlddmkm then google it and read what you can find on the nvidia forums as to a fix.

Hmm this does ring a bell. Thought I don't always get any info it just CTD's but I believe that a few times it's been that one. Will google..

[rumster]

Ok got fed up and got myself Win7. Same thing continues though...

Win7 keeps telling me there is a problem with my sound card and tries to offer me a new driver that isn't for my card lol. Is this a clue to anyone? I have the correct drivers and software for the X-Fi and I don't know what this "problem" is.

[GOPHUR]

I do know that Creative and Windows 7 had all kinds of problems. I would suggest getting the driver windoes recommend. This works pretty good in Win7.

First though, I'd disable the sound card in the device manager and see if the problem is still there. You'll probably need to rerun settings.

[rumster]

I disabled the sound card and played two days without sounds... no help. Still stalls and random ctds as well. I also tried on my mobo's integrated sound card. Same results. *shrug* At least what equipment I'm using at the time rtb's so I don't feel as bad using an atg or such

[rumster]

This still persists, after game patch, new nvidia drivers and new creative drivers..

[GOPHUR]

Then you have a heat or hardware issue. Ugh. If you're getting nv errors it might be a video card going bad but honestly it is just as often a bad hard drive causing problems in windows.

These are hell to diagnose unless you have some spare parts.

[rumster]

In fact, I do have some spare parts since I have another running rig here.

Wish I had a spare right leg also since I crashed my motorcycle 2 weeks ago and even an almost running computer feels luxurious now.

Oh, well, guess I'll have time to try different parts on my main rig and try to find out which overpriced "high-tech" part is not doing it's job right now..

[lutorm]

The symptom sure sounds like the gpu hanging and the system doing a gpu reset and then resuming (some times). Can you try another video card?