Blue screen atimpag.sys - ark crash

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This game used to run fine. I've turned off all the mods.
Played for 6 hours today. crashed 6 times. Same crash.

First time, I was like 'okay' > googled it > threw "-norhithread" into the launch options. Done.
2nd & 3rd. I thought I forced. As ark was loading in the world (jittery load screen A1_Far_blah in all its glory) > Looking at videos in discord > Eyyyy a hungnoise and BSoD atimpag.sys > Yay

4th & 5th time. Was between me losing my♥♥♥♥♥♥having to redo all the setting again and again because some JO decided these settings should be static until the session ends properly then dynamic when its reloaded BUT-but completely reverts to default after a crash.
4th - Clearing out a swap path > Restart the game > Load the game > Crash - BSOD.
5th - Laying down a bridge piece, Crash - BSOD.
6th. I don't even know wtf I did. I got a shower > Rage wank > redid the single player settings> Played smooth for an 1h 30m and BSOD - Crash.

I'm not getting a season pass on here or PS4 version for my asshat console friends. If it's this unoptimized that BASE GAME is a hassle, you have no business being out of beta.

[Cor.]

you are blaming the game for your messed up pc.


Heres a clue sparky

its not the game

[Instant_mashed_potatoes]

Its not the game, atimpag.sys is your graphics driver being corrupt or faulty. Literaly 5 seconds of googling answered this. Reinstall your graphics driver or install an older version and try again

[[☥] - CJ -]

Without having to google i knew what the crash was being caused by.

Point of fact
Its not the game, its your system.

Some games handle software and hardware differently than others, just because you have 0 issues in other games does not make it solely a problem with ARK.

Download DDU and run it in safe mode, select Clean and Restart
download the graphic driver before hand to make it easier.

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Did a RAM check. Fine.
Uninstalled GPU Driver. Reinstalled. Fine.
Played for 3 hours. Fine.
4th hour. BSOD Crash.

Originally posted by Instant_mashed_potatoes:

Its not the game, atimpag.sys is your graphics driver being corrupt or faulty. Literaly 5 seconds of googling answered this. Reinstall your graphics driver or install an older version and try again

Do you think I've over looked the filenames in the crash?

""""Atikmpag.sys is a kernel driver that installed with ATI Graphics Cards. A kernel driver works directly with the operating system and hence, needs to function in a very stable environment.

atikmpag stands for AMD ATI multi-vendor Kernel Miniport Driver

Atikmpag.sys is a Windows driver. A driver is a small software program that allows your computer to communicate with hardware or connected devices. This means that a driver has direct access to the internals of the operating system, hardware etc.""""

Thanks, google warrior. You obseration has saved wasted my day.

Essientially, what I've GOT (hence prior) from this is that ARK was trying to access something it shouldn't (unoptimised garb) and is the sole cause of the problem at hand.

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

Without having to google i knew what the crash was being caused by.

Point of fact
Its not the game, its your system.

Some games handle software and hardware differently than others, just because you have 0 issues in other games does not make it solely a problem with ARK.

Download DDU and run it in safe mode, select Clean and Restart
download the graphic driver before hand to make it easier.

Hypothesis> "Ark is the cause of the crash."
Test> _Ark successfully crashes my PC_
Introduce other variables> "Maybe it's my drivers."
Uninstall/Reinstall Latest drivers> Repeat cycle
Hypothesis> Test> _Playing Ark Crashes my PC._
Introduce other variables> "Maybe my PC can't play any other games."
Play WoW> No crash. Play CS:GO> No crash. Overwatch. No crash. Play Weeb ♥♥♥♥> No crash
Stress test> Fur Mark, Memory Diagonistic, Benchmark ma ♥♥♥♥. No crash.
Hypothesis> Test> _Playing Ark Crashes my PC._
Introduce other variables> "Do, literally, everything else I do on my PC ever."
Do all the things> No crash.
Hypothesis> Test> _Playing Ark Crashes my PC._
Results. Ark is the problem.

Originally posted by LordCorellon1:

you are blaming the game for your messed up pc.


Heres a clue sparky

its not the game

FX-8350 cpubenchmark (8,946 score, Overall Rank: 283)
R9 390x videocardbenchmark (8,498 score, Overall Rank: 34)
2x8-16GB DDR3 1866mhz
Windows 7 OS

In Before the blind speculation:

It's not ARK, it's your OS.

Word for Word - "Everything else I do cannot crash my PC."

[[☥] - CJ -]

If you dont want help from people with legit experience then thats on you
good luck resolving it by yourself.

Fact
The crash has to do with your graphic drivers

Which means your PC is the problem from a driver standpoint.

[muntharr]

my amd card has no problems. as yet.
try rolling back you driver

[dndhatcher2]

I played ARK at near max settings for around 2 years (AMD R9 290 GPU). Since the aberration release I am also having constant blue screens. I have tried re-installing drivers, rolling back drivers and everything else. If I try to play single player unmodded I crash every 5 to 45 minutes. I am not the only person, I have seen many other threads here and other places with people reporting this.

I am fairly confident that a graphics change was made in the Aberration release that does not like AMD drivers. It is NOT just one person's PC with a graphics driver problem.

I just saw a week old thread of someone who said this was solved by adding -norhithread to the command line. I am going to try this and see if it helps.

[Spades]

CJ you talk like a try hard and have no clue. It is entirely possible an update to a game can cause BSODs from the new code and the way it interacts with drivers.

Stop being a Sebastian Gorka and recognise that some here are very likely to have more experience then yourself.

SniperNoSniping, Likely have to wait for a hotfix to arrive

[Spades]

Also, your VAC-BAN is visable to everyone CJ. Cheatin pos.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by MoonCow:

Also, your VAC-BAN is visable to everyone CJ. Cheatin pos.

First of all
thanks for necro'ing

Second of all
whats my VAC have to do with anything?
its on an insignificant game so be a good little dog and mind your own business

Thanks

And no
Ignorant brats like you do NOT have more experience than me.

Actually know what a bluescreen means before you go running your mouth

[Spades]

I've worked in the tech industry for over 10 years. VAC BAN just shows you're a sleaze is all.

Silky, you're partially right... It doesn't take much code to cause a driver to BSOD. You simply make the driver do something it isn't intented to do, and suprise! BSOD.

Now there are usually checks and balances to prevent a BSOD from a thrown error, but as there are TWO major video card manufacurers and millions of games, it often falls to the game developer to report or correct the issue.

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Originally posted by MoonCow:

I've worked in the tech industry for over 10 years.

then you should be able to fix your problem..

but then again, I found alien life and cured cancer if I go by your example...

[Spades]

I don't have the problem. But people do.

Regardless, I work in the industry, it doesn't mean I make drivers for AMD or patches for ARK.

If you do find alien life let us know!

[Spades]

Fair enough, "partially" may be a bad choice of words. You are correct. "With caveats" may have been better.

Local for sure, but telling this guy its HIS system specifically is not correct. He should not be replacing parts. If he ran all the tests and it only shows a BSOD while in ARK (Like the Overwatch issue recently) then best he can do is send reports and wait for a fix.

An update to a game can cause (expose) a BSOD. The hardware itself should not be replaced

[AngelMarc]

jisas, nothing else crashes pc, only ARK, and you still blaming PC, you dont even realize how stupid you sound - and yes same for me, dosen of other games, no crash, ARK, after 1h, sometimes more, crash and BSOD - but you have pointed something that i may try, uninstall Abberation pack, if this works will point this here

and before you start posting stupid things, here is error, as far i can see wrong instructions send from game to driver over DX, and this is well know error, looks like ARK devs just went on shortcuts to finish something, have fun and do some real GOOGLING, mr, expert [ dont know on what, as for sure not computers ], bug dates back to windows VISTA

0x00000116
fffffa80`14f404e0
fffff880`04c5b99c
00000000`00000000
00000000`00000002
dxgkrnl.sys
dxgkrnl.sys+5d388
DirectX Graphics Kernel
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
ntoskrnl.exe+70e00

BCCode : 116 0x00000116
The VIDEO_TDR_ ERROR bug check has a value of 0x00000116. This indicates that an attempt
to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
BCCode: 116 0x00000116 <-- read this
http://www.faultwire.com/solutions-fatal_error/Attempt-to-reset-the-display-driver-and-recover-from-0x00000116-*1275.html