Game crashes on startup in intro screen.

[Tekky the kobold]

Game does not work. Period. When I had an AMD card this game just sent my game to a bluescreen.
Now I have an Nvidia card and this game didn't just go to bluescreen on startup during intro scene: It crashed so hard my pc had a total restart.

I have a problem with a lot of 2K Games where they just goes to bluescreen for me during startup.
I have tried multiple fixes for this game, I even Q-flashed the plowin' BIOS on my motherboard and it still won't work.

The game itself is amazing, I finished it on Xbox 360 and wanted to play it on my pc as well.
Money out the ♥♥♥♥♥ window.

[Mr. Howlett]

Maybe your problem is related to some other specific hardware, drivers or even programs running in the background? Your PSU is capable of powering your hardware?

I played this game on my old computer with no crash or blue screen.

GeForce 9800GT 1 GB
Intel Dual Core E5700 3.0 Ghz
2 GB DDR3 RAM Kingston 800 MHz
Mobo: Biostar G41D3C
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

I bought a new computer for a while with the following settings and I can still play the game without any problem.

I7 4790k 4.0 Ghz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070 8 GB
16 GB RAM DDR3 1600 MHz Corsair Black
Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3PH
Windows 10

If other games can cause the same problem on your computer, then it is a problem related to your computer and not on the specific game. You can try a program called BlueScreen View and see if it's something related in any driver or RAM.

PS: Yes, my motherboard is simple because I don't care about overclocking, SLI or frills that I don't use, and for me it would be a waste of money to have a motherboard that offers me something I'm not going to use. Just got the 4790k because I couldn't find the non-K version. =/

[Tekky the kobold]

I ONLY have this problem with games from 2K Games.
I play "The witcher 3" on high detail without any problems.
But to humor you; here are my pc specs:


System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model GA-990FXA-UD3
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor, 3100 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. FB, 13.10.2011
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8,00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7,98 GB
Available Physical Memory 4,70 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16,0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12,7 GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

[Mr. Howlett]

Googled here and has many reports of games in particular causing BSOD on PCs with the same processor. You always had problems with games from 2K Games on this computer or they started after a while?

This link says more about a bug or something that causes BSOD on AMD Bulldozer processors: https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/amd-bulldozer-can-it-get-even-worse/

A game older than The Darkness 2 called Total War: Shogun 2 is capable of causing BSOD on machines with AMD Bulldozer processors, according to the link above.

Link confirming BSOD in Total War: Shogun 2 and Deus Ex Human Revolution on AMD FX 8120: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2185039.html

There are many other links of people complaining of BSOD in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and other games with your processor.

I have games developed or published by 2K Games as: The Darkness 2, Mafia 2, XCOM Enemy Unknown and Spec Ops The Line. They never caused a BSOD on my machine.

Don't go buying another processor as you did with your video card, lol. It is necessary to someone with the same processor to report if there are problems with BSOD actually with some games. You can try updating the driver of your processor, if you haven't already.

[Tekky the kobold]

I really appreciate all the time you took to research all this. <- Not being sarcastic actuallybeing grateful ^_^

"I have games developed or published by 2K Games as: The Darkness 2, Mafia 2, XCOM Enemy Unknown and Spec Ops The Line. They never caused a BSOD on my machine."

^ All these bluescreens and crashes my pc. But yeah, I can try to update my prosessor driver and let you know how that works out. :D