Back to the Blue screen of death

[BigRowdy]

Had this problem before, moved game to 3 different drives. Was Working and then newest update and blammo! BSOD. All 434 of 435 other games work fine.

[Xilo The Odd]

well, whats the post message for the BSOD? it does tell you where the critical failure was.

also windows event viewer will tell you where the fault was.

[hippo]

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Had this problem before, moved game to 3 different drives. Was Working and then newest update and blammo! BSOD. All 434 of 435 other games work fine.

rest in peace. Try the GOG version bigrowdy.

had a similar problem with fallout 3 on steam but the gog version worked without flaw.

[BigRowdy]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

well, whats the post message for the BSOD? it does tell you where the critical failure was.

also windows event viewer will tell you where the fault was.

I'll have to try the event viewer as the blue screen crash dump was to fast. mind you I dont know what I'm looking at, at all

Thanks for sharing

[Underfox]

There are a few issues people have. I'll tell you what I've done to fix my crashing.
1. Turned of shader cache in gpu settings. Then deleted ShaderCache folder in steam client. This stopped my blue screen crashing, but the game would still occasionally freeze up at random times.

2. Turned off overclocking on my ram. Even the "stock overclock". So in BIOS I turned XMP off.

So far about 10 hours played without a crash. Anyway dropping ram spd from 3200 to 2133 seems terrible, but being able to play NMS its worth it. Besides it's easy to change.

[Ashina Anorlondo ✔]

Enable aero dekstop theme works for me (Win 7)

[BigRowdy]

Originally posted by Ashina knight with Shovel:

Enable aero dekstop theme works for me (Win 7)

YES THIS!!! I forgot thats how I fixed it last time!! Thank for reminding me.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

well, whats the post message for the BSOD? it does tell you where the critical failure was.

also windows event viewer will tell you where the fault was.

I'll have to try the event viewer as the blue screen crash dump was to fast. mind you I dont know what I'm looking at, at all

Thanks for sharing

i believe there is a way to increase the length of the post. but where thats setting is i've forgotten. its either in the bios or a setting in event viewer now. basically you'll be looking for a file or process name, either a .dll or a .exe in most cases among the other stuff posted on the screen.

[BigRowdy]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

I'll have to try the event viewer as the blue screen crash dump was to fast. mind you I dont know what I'm looking at, at all

Thanks for sharing

i believe there is a way to increase the length of the post. but where thats setting is i've forgotten. its either in the bios or a setting in event viewer now. basically you'll be looking for a file or process name, either a .dll or a .exe in most cases among the other stuff posted on the screen.

Thank you brother but is is seeting my theme to aero that fixes it. Why? I couldn't havwe the foggiest of ideas...Previously when I had this problem, someone said it was a possible solution...I tried and never had another problem...I recently went back to a plain desktop theme and when i saw Ashinas post I remembered.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

i believe there is a way to increase the length of the post. but where thats setting is i've forgotten. its either in the bios or a setting in event viewer now. basically you'll be looking for a file or process name, either a .dll or a .exe in most cases among the other stuff posted on the screen.

Thank you brother but is is seeting my theme to aero that fixes it. Why? I couldn't havwe the foggiest of ideas...Previously when I had this problem, someone said it was a possible solution...I tried and never had another problem...I recently went back to a plain desktop theme and when i saw Ashinas post I remembered.

ah then its probably something windows 7 specific. most games are optimized for windows 10 nowadays so 7 is bound to have problems occasionally.

[BigRowdy]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Thank you brother but is is seeting my theme to aero that fixes it. Why? I couldn't havwe the foggiest of ideas...Previously when I had this problem, someone said it was a possible solution...I tried and never had another problem...I recently went back to a plain desktop theme and when i saw Ashinas post I remembered.

ah then its probably something windows 7 specific. most games are optimized for windows 10 nowadays so 7 is bound to have problems occasionally.

Yep I still have windows 7...so I would think that is a good hypothesis. By the time I upgrade to 10 22 or whatever is gonna be out....

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

ah then its probably something windows 7 specific. most games are optimized for windows 10 nowadays so 7 is bound to have problems occasionally.

Yep I still have windows 7...so I would think that is a good hypothesis. By the time I upgrade to 10 22 or whatever is gonna be out....

supposedly 10 will be the last one for awhile. dunno how much merit is in those words. i'd almost say it'd be a good idea to setup a dual boot on your PC and have 10 installed for trialing certain issues to make sure its not OS related. then from there it'd be learning the OS and taming it so it doesnt do all the pain in the butt things people complain about. but if you use something like media center or windows movie maker you'll want to keep 7 around as those go away in windows 10.

[BigRowdy]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by BigRowdy:

Yep I still have windows 7...so I would think that is a good hypothesis. By the time I upgrade to 10 22 or whatever is gonna be out....

supposedly 10 will be the last one for awhile. dunno how much merit is in those words. i'd almost say it'd be a good idea to setup a dual boot on your PC and have 10 installed for trialing certain issues to make sure its not OS related. then from there it'd be learning the OS and taming it so it doesnt do all the pain in the butt things people complain about. but if you use something like media center or windows movie maker you'll want to keep 7 around as those go away in windows 10.

Yeah Im headed to Win 10 pretty soon. Got 32 GB RAM on my rig. Did not know win7 home premium only supports 16. So 16 GB RAM just sitting there twiddling its thumbs......