Crash on almoust every game

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First of all, Hi :) This is my first thread on the forums.
I bet you heard it alot, but yes it actually crashes to the desktop on almoust every game that i play. FS X, Settlers 6, Half Life 2, Bioshock, and the list goes on.. The crashes are that the game just freezes abit and it switches to the desktop and says that the app has crashed, and gives me a choise between check the net for the solution and restart it. Sometimes the errors explain the app crash with a direct x file as the "couse" of the problem. While i checked the forums i saw a few video drivers and tryed to install them. Each driver gave me diffrent "new" problems. some of them crashed the game but it took it about 10-15 more mins to do it.
The latest NVIDIA driver is the moust unstable from all the drivers that i have tryed....
Some of the drivers even crashed into the BSOD with a 101 error...
And when it showed it, the error was about some other file, somehow related to
Sometimes it crashes to the desktop with a file from the game it self as the couse of the crash, for example client.dll for Half Life EP 2.


My specs are :
AMD Athlon 2x3000+
GeForce 8800GT 512MB only 1 card
4Gb RAM
Vista Ultimate x64
Is there anything that i'm missing here? Or is it just the Vista? And if it is... should i just install XP and wait untill Vista will have a good support of drivers and fixes.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual COre Processor 6000+ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics card(s)
    GeForce 8800 GT
    Sound Card
    On board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1
    Screen Resolution
    1280x800
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 ATA

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Fumz' Flux-Capacitor
    CPU
    E8400
    Motherboard
    DFI LP DK P35-T2RS
    Memory
    4GB G.Skill PC-1066
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    500GB W.D. RE2 Primary 1TB W.D. Caviar GP WD10EACS
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610
    Case
    Lian Li Lancool K62
    Cooling
    Thermalright Ultima-90/S-Flex 120mm
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Elite 4000 Ergonomic
    Internet Speed
    2.5MB/430
    Other Info
    D-Link DGL 4500
i'm not overclocking or underclocking. yes i have SP1 installe and the latest Directx.. i have seen some of the stability fixes, and i have tryed to install them, but it said that it won't install it for my system or something like that. so i guess i have installed it somewhere thru windows update.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual COre Processor 6000+ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics card(s)
    GeForce 8800 GT
    Sound Card
    On board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1
    Screen Resolution
    1280x800
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 ATA
Have you got the disk that came with your graphics card?
If you have uninstall the nvidea software in safe mode.
Go into device driver and uninstall the graphics device compleatly.
Restart your computer.
You will now get a dialog saying that vista has found new hardware.
Insert your graphics card dvd and install the software.

Has this helped?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    I5 3570K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77-DS3H
    Memory
    4 x 4GB corsair ballistix sport DDR3 1600 Mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 TI
    Sound Card
    creative x-fi
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Primary CiBox 22" Widescreen LCD ,Secondary Dell 22" Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    Both 1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500G HD (SATA) 1 x 2TB USB
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
    Case
    Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
    Cooling
    3 x 80mm tri led front, 120mm side 120mm back, 200mm top
    Mouse
    Technika TKOPTM2
    Keyboard
    Logik
    Internet Speed
    288 / 4000
    Other Info
    Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers Trust Graphics Tablet
Hi everyone:)

I'm new to this forum too. Just set up a new rig a week ago and decided to run Vista Home Premium 64 bit but am encountering similar problems as Googler so I hope I'm not jacking this thread by sharing my problems on this thread.

System specs are:

Striker II Formula (Bios 1602)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
4 Gb RAM (2x2)
GeForce GTX 280 (single card with pilot version 7.15.11.7813 - nVidia ForceWare 178.13)
OCZ EliteXtreme 800W PSU

All drivers are up to date, including latest Dx updates. I've also run Memtest86+ v 2.01 (single/dual module setup with slot switching) and Prime95 for 8-10 hours without errors.

There is no overclocking involved and system boots to Windows without a problem. However, whenever I try to game, I either get BSOD while logging in or after 20-30 mins.

Temperatures are at:

Motherboard 40-45°
Core 40-50°
GPU 47° (idle) - 60° (load)

System does not always provide an error report, but I'll do a copy and paste the next time it happens.


Any help will be appreciated and my apologies to Googler for posting my problems here, but hopefully there'll be a single solution to both our problems as the system only crashes during gaming.

Bert_H said:
Right-click icon > compatibility > choose XP SP2
I did that for Neverwinter Nights, nothing worked until then.
Click to expand...

Thanks Bert:) I'll give this a try with Guild Wars but the problem seems to persist with CoH: Opposing Fronts and Assassin's Creed as well.:(
 

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  • CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo 8400
    Motherboard
    Asus Striker II Formula
    Memory
    G-Skill Extreme Kit2 2x2 GO PC8500 PK
    Graphics card(s)
    Point of View Geforce GTX 280
    Sound Card
    Asus SupremeFX II
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Benq FP241W
    Screen Resolution
    1900x1200
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar RE2 GP S-ATA 500Go - 16 Mo WD Caviar Blue S-ATA 640Go - 16 Mo
    PSU
    OCZ EliteXtreme 800W
    Case
    Antec P182 Performance One
    Cooling
    Noctua NH-C12P; top, rear and lower 120mm in-built fans
    Mouse
    Razer Copperhead
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15v2
hmmm, well roy69 i will try that in a few days, won't be able to get to the comp for a few days. and Bert_H, i have tryed that on every game i have and it won't help :S .
Np, MFerret, nothing bad has happened.. :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual COre Processor 6000+ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics card(s)
    GeForce 8800 GT
    Sound Card
    On board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1
    Screen Resolution
    1280x800
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 ATA
i was having a similar issue with my system and like you have already noticed the graphics drivers are unstable and can be the main cause for this as it was for me ATI only just managed to get it right in 8.9 but you might want to check other drivers and try them to see if you are still having instability in your games another one to check is that your card is not overheating as this can cause similar problems.

hope i helped and that you get this solved soon good luck!
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    me
    CPU
    intel Q6600 @3.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    gigabyte EP35C DS3R
    Memory
    8 GB OCZ 1066 HPC REAPER
    Graphics card(s)
    Sapphire 4870 HD 1024mb gddr5
    Monitor(s) Displays
    lg flatron 20.1
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    western digital 350gb samsung spinpoint 120gb
    PSU
    900w
    Case
    thermaltake aguila
    Cooling
    2x 120mm 2x 10cm
ok i kinda solved my issues.. (i hope, i have a full day of tests tommorow but now it looks kinda nice, played for 4 hours now without crashing).
the thing is that my card is made by Leadtek. now i checked their site and got myself a driver, 177.79 WinFast PX8800 GT(NVIDIA). and when i run the game under WinXP Compatability it works fine :D. i hope it will run fine for me tommorow, and i hope i helped some of you guys :)
*edit*
1 more thing is that i set the affinity to 1 of the cores, i heard that some of the games have problems with dual cores.. so this is some sort of a solution to it.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual COre Processor 6000+ 3.00GHz
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics card(s)
    GeForce 8800 GT
    Sound Card
    On board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1
    Screen Resolution
    1280x800
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 ATA
Glad you have gotton somewhere with the problem:).
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    I5 3570K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77-DS3H
    Memory
    4 x 4GB corsair ballistix sport DDR3 1600 Mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 TI
    Sound Card
    creative x-fi
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Primary CiBox 22" Widescreen LCD ,Secondary Dell 22" Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    Both 1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500G HD (SATA) 1 x 2TB USB
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
    Case
    Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
    Cooling
    3 x 80mm tri led front, 120mm side 120mm back, 200mm top
    Mouse
    Technika TKOPTM2
    Keyboard
    Logik
    Internet Speed
    288 / 4000
    Other Info
    Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers Trust Graphics Tablet
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