BSOD md-game crash

[majorstoffer]

Hello gents, I did some trawling and didn't see mention of a similar problem as myself, so I figured I'd post it and see if someone might be able to help.

I've been playing an Art of War campaign as the Remnant for a few days now (Week 40-something in-game), and been enjoying myself enormously, but I've come across a bit of a showstopping problem; the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. This is occuring when I'm in battle, ground or space, and doesn't seem to be tied to any one planet. It happened first when I launched a ground attack against the EOTH on Ithor, which I figured was a one-off, and ignored it, autoresolved after reloading, and all was swell. The very next battle, a NR assault on my space defenses on Ciuth, or however it's spelled, similar problem; the game BSODs a few minutes into the battle.

I had some problems getting the mod to work originally, but it was fixed by just running in compatibility mode for XP, SP3 (I'm running Win7 64bit), and I've got a fair number of hours in-game with no issue, and now this has basically prevented any further progress.

Please let me know if there's any specifics you guys need to possibly help me with this. There's so many more rebel scum left to crush.

[Lord Xizer]

Odd, I was certain that had been dealt with

[majorstoffer]

I'd write it off as I installed the mod incorrectly, or some conflicting files hidden away in my FOC installation, but the game was running perfectly fine for some time with the two hotfixes installed.

I don't think it's a hardware issue, as I've been playing Red Faction: Armageddon since the mod started acting up on me, and haven't had any hiccups or the like, so I think I'll try a full wipe; remove everything, install from scratch to make sure I haven't missed something.

[majorstoffer]

No such luck on the reinstall. Curiously, the intensity of the battle doesn't seem to have anything to do with causing the crash. I had two enormous battles against the EOTH, no problem, Ackbar launches a suicide attack at one of my planets, one-shot him with the Hyper-velocity gun, and I get the BSOD while hunting down a few fighters.

Honestly, I don't have the faintest idea what's causing this.

[Lord Xizer]

Hm, might just be a glitch. 2.1 will deal with it for sure

[Enceladus]

Uh, no 2.1 will probably not fix it Xizer.

BSODs are usually caused by hardware issues or driver issues. Majorstoffer my best advice is that you make sure to update your GPU  (mainly) and other computer drivers to the latest ones available. It also wouldn't be bad idea to do a hardware check on your computer (ie. Dell has a built-in one you can access on start-up to check that all of your hardware is working). If this is the only game you're having issues with my bet is that it is a drivers issue. For example my last laptop hated Civilization 3 and would BSOD for no reason until I updated the graphics card drivers.

If that doesn't work please do see if the main game gives you similar issues.

[Lord Xizer]

In that case I retract my earlier statement

[majorstoffer]

I updated my drivers, and it seemed to help at first; got a fair number of space battles in with no problem, then fought a land battle and BSOD'd about 5 minutes in. I'll try out the base game and see what happens sometime today or tomorrow and provide an update.

[Lord Xizer]

Better luck next time old sport

[tlmiller]

How old is the machine, kinda makes me think there's overheating issues.

[Eclipse]

How old is the machine, kinda makes me think there's overheating issues.

I doubt that, my computer is like 10 years old (from 2002/3) and has no overheating issue, only with high graphic quality games and in summer. But ICW is not a problem at all with me

[majorstoffer]

How old is the machine, kinda makes me think there's overheating issues.

It's a franken computer I've built myself, the oldest component is the hard drive at about 5 years, and I had a cooling issue in the past, but fixed it, nothing goes over ~30 even in the likes of Battlefield 3 or Shogun 2 with a bajillion men shooting each other. When I discover a hardware problem, I have a tendency to go overboard in rectifying it.

[majorstoffer]

Sorry for the doublepost, but I figured it's warranted in this case; I've tried running the base game, and I get a BSOD as well, about 15-20 minutes in, but curiously on the campaign layer, not in battles, which is where I've been BSing in ICW.

[Enceladus]

Well it does make me feel better that it's not just during our mod that you experience the BSOD, but probably a bit more frustrating for you. 

At this point I'm not sure what advice I can give. You might want to try posting on the Petroglyph forums since this is happening to the base game as well and see what they have to offer as advice.

[majorstoffer]

Honestly, the space battles seem perfectly stable in the mod at this point, and while you guys certainly made the ground side more interesting, it's still not exactly my cup of tea. I've been quite happy to just autoresolve ground and just pay for more ground troops; I'd likely be doing it most of the time anyways. I just wish Turbolasers didn't have quite so high a value for autoresolve, as the AI sure loves to build them.