King's Bluescreen: Blue Side

[SymphonyX]

So, what am I going to do about the blue screens of death? I have read that it has something to do with my X-fi Soundcard and Open AL. Bug what can I exactly do to make it stop? Now don't you dare to write "update your sound driver". OF COURSE IT IS THE NEWEST VERSION. This is not a problem of my sound driver, its a problem of the stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buggy game. I wonder how can they ♥♥♥♥ up this game so hard its the 4th part of the series, its basically copy&paste of the other 3 ones. WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE IN RUSSIA?

Please help me,
game is unplayable.

[SymphonyX]

bump.

[sarouman]

I got a bluescreen too. I don't even know it was possible on win7.

[ranakor]

Way to bump but there is already an answer in another thread, it's a bug in your drivers and you can fix it by changing the mode, look for thread it's in the 1st 2 pages of thread i'm sure (was bumped today).

[Nedison]

"its basically copy&paste of the other 3 ones", lol love it. Well, tbh some of the screens look like they were taken from an older release. Most of the textures/sounds are probably old too, but at least we got new quests! *wave*

Turn on Enternainment mode from your X-Fi it should make the game start, at least for me it did. Shame I hear it crashes the game anyway at some point. And doing lot of bluescreens doesn't do much good for the file structures...I hope they fix it soon.

[SymphonyX]

entertainment mode does not help. Still Bluescreens

[SymphonyX]

Well it starts but when I fight, I randomly get BSODS. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

[SymphonyX]

Wow guys is this a joke? The bluescreen even appears WHEN I TURN OFF MY INGAME SOUND. Come on this is ridiculous

[ranakor]

Seriously, stop asking here and post on creative forums if your bug is in the creative drivers! It's NOT a problem with a game if your PC blue screens, ever, regardless of the game, this isn't windows 98 anymore, user mode process DO NOT HAVE the ability to bluescreen you, EVEN if the programmers EXPLICITELY wanted to they COULD - NOT - TRIGGER - a blue screen, it's impossible period.

[attackmuffin]

if the game cant make it blue screen then why does it do it only when people play the game? theres something in the game causing issues. theres too many people with this issue for it jsut to be his computer.

[ranakor]

Originally posted by heavy metal jebus:

if the game cant make it blue screen then why does it do it only when people play the game? theres something in the game causing issues. theres too many people with this issue for it jsut to be his computer.

I'm not saying it's his computer at all, it's the driver. It could be a certain sequence of commands triggering the issue in the driver and that may thus only appear in specific games, doesn't change where the bug is, as i said it's possible it could be FIXED on the game side (by avoiding the issue), nonetheless, the issue IS IN THE DRIVER. So the right place to complain is on creative's forum.

[Mist]

I've played dozens of games without this error. Why should I believe that this is a driver error ??

[ranakor]

Originally posted by Tabaqui:

I've played dozens of games without this error. Why should I believe that this is a driver error ??

Because, i said it and i'll repeat it, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR A GAME TO BLUE SCREEN. Period. To trigger a blue screen (a crash of windows) something must run at a level that has access to windows (at system level), user mode programs do not and can not run at this level. Drivers do. The message you get in the blue screen even says so, it points to a driver file.

[ranakor]

When a programmer does the same type of thing in a game as what you see here, you get a crash of the executable, not a crash of windows, whenever windows crash (in modern windows versions) it can basically only be
1) A bug in windows
2) A bug in a device (or non device, for example custom filesystem) driver
3) A bug in a system level service that isn't a driver (core antivirus component etc)