BSOD on Beef

thewombleofdeath · Post by **thewombleofdeath** » July 2nd, 2007, 21:31

occasionally when im on beef, i get the blue screen of death with the whole 0x0000001E crap etc. and it says at the top that it was caused by nv32.dll or whatever the nvidia driver is. it seems to only happen when on beef.

is it something wrong with the driver or is it something wrong with the game? and is there any way to fix it?

Post by **deject** » July 2nd, 2007, 21:40

update your drivers and check your GPU's temperatures

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 3rd, 2007, 0:10

if that doesn't help. try memtest. and older drivers

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 3rd, 2007, 7:44

Yeah mine crashes every time, I'd love the occasional crash

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 3rd, 2007, 10:59

Mine doesn't make it past the splash screen

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 3rd, 2007, 11:03

Mine crashes when I post about BEEF on the inter

Post by **Dog Pants** » July 3rd, 2007, 11:05

mrbobbins wrote:Mine crashes when I post about BEEF on the inter

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 3rd, 2007, 11:09

Back now!

I may have actually solved my crashes, although they weren't specific to beef, I think lowering my memory timings might have fixed it.

Also, all you 8800 lovelies out there, which version of the drivers are you using for XP?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 3rd, 2007, 11:14

Right now i'm on 162.15 (which were nuked for being crashy) so you don't want them

158.22 seemed pretty good.

Also you might wanna hit it with memtest a little.

Post by **FatherJack** » July 3rd, 2007, 12:19

I had it occasionally - about once per round. Tried going back with drivers so far I was using drivers that crashed CSS whenever an HDR map came on. In the end tried running under Fista, which worked with the newest drivers, which has been crash-free for BF2, LoTRO and dual-screen EVE (all of which crashed a lot previously) with the 158.24 drivers.

Obviously not the ideal solution, and it's probably as much to do with it being a clean* install as anything else. Sound is the suxor with Fista, even getting TS to work isn't fun, not nice when you've spent over 100 notes on the soundcard.

It's probably worth trying a clean*-install version of XP sometime - or rather a game-only boot partition. My XP partition was clean a month or two ago, but it does get used for other things.

*OS, Drivers, Virus/Spyware scanner, XFire, TS and Games only.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » July 3rd, 2007, 12:25

What FJ said about cleanish installs.

I've recently been suffering from BSOD death on CSS/Beef which never used to happen (well, not on CSS anyway).

I suspect either the supernova that's my northbridge has annoyed some other part, or it's just XP having a spazz out over something not nice lurking around the system.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 3rd, 2007, 12:29

A lot of people seem to be having critical crashes at the moment

Computer Aids?
MS Update to horse crashes making everyone migrate to Fista?

Post by **deject** » July 3rd, 2007, 13:39

mrbobbins wrote:Mine crashes when I post about BEEF on the inter

friznit · Post by **friznit** » July 3rd, 2007, 14:16

nVidia have a fuck of a lot to answer for. One of their recent 8800 driver releases seems to have fucked up alot of game, and rolling back doesn't seem to resolve the issue in some cases. There have been random reported BSoD's, total shut downs or poor performance issues in BEEF, ArmA, Eve, STALKER and lots of others besides. Since updating my drivers I have been getting totally random total shut downs - it runs fine for a week or so, then one day will have a spack and shut down 2 or 3 times in an hour.

Killavodka · Post by **Killavodka** » July 3rd, 2007, 14:19

i have had very few problems with beef recently, only one crash in a month w o w

/ATI for le win

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 3rd, 2007, 14:20

friznit wrote:.

You didn't download the 162.15 beta did you? They removed that for being too crashy (it is a beta after all)

Otherwise, give your machine a bit of a poking with drivercleaner

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 3rd, 2007, 14:26

I had a complete windows re-install after which I just installed BEEF and all relevent drivers (Not the 162.15 beta) and it still spacks like a Joey on a bus to Alton Towers.

thewombleofdeath · Post by **thewombleofdeath** » July 3rd, 2007, 14:44

the annoying thing is that ive just wiped my whole hard drive and re-installed windows a couple of weeks back. i installed the drivers supplied on the disk for my 8600 and havent changed them yet but still seem to be having the bsod

northwesten · Post by **northwesten** » July 3rd, 2007, 14:44

least i dont have p[roblem with BF2142

friznit · Post by **friznit** » July 3rd, 2007, 14:48

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
You didn't download the 162.15 beta did you? They removed that for being too crashy (it is a beta after all)

Otherwise, give your machine a bit of a poking with drivercleaner

No. I avoid beta drivers for just this reason - I value stability over performance every time. Can you recommend a driver cleaner?