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FEAR:XP crashing!

BigFNDeal

BigFNDeal

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OK, I am at the very end of Interval2, just before entering the subway, after beating the small mech. And I get constant blue screens and crashes. The blue screens are varied, lately more nv4_dsp.dll errors, occassionally I've gotten page fault error bsods.More often I get memory execution errors in popups asking me to OK stopping the program. I've done the following already...

1. Normallized all clock speeds to default.
2. Ran memtest for 12 hours. (clean)
3. Ran ATi tool for 30min as SLi. (clean)
4. Ran Prime95 on one core, F@H on the 2nd core for 18hours. (clean)
5. Flashed new mobo BIOS to latest, 0405.
6. RInstalled XPSP2 with new 93.17graphics drivers and 6.86nforce4 mobo drivers.
7. Re-ran all above tests again. (clean)

Current hardware is in sig.
 
BigFNDeal said:
OK, I am at the very end of Interval2, just before entering the subway, after beating the small mech. And I get constant blue screens and crashes. The blue screens are varied, lately more nv4_dsp.dll errors, occassionally I've gotten page fault error bsods.More often I get memory execution errors in popups asking me to OK stopping the program. I've done the following already...

1. Normallized all clock speeds to default.
2. Ran memtest for 12 hours. (clean)
3. Ran ATi tool for 30min as SLi. (clean)
4. Ran Prime95 on one core, F@H on the 2nd core for 18hours. (clean)
5. Flashed new mobo BIOS to latest, 0405.
6. RInstalled XPSP2 with new 93.17graphics drivers and 6.86nforce4 mobo drivers.
7. Re-ran all above tests again. (clean)

Current hardware is in sig.
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Does this only happen in FEAR XP ?
As I was reading your post, I was getting the impression your RAM was going bad, but then you said you ran memtest for 12 hours and everything was ok.
Your hard drive might also be the problem, when for example, the swap file is being used and, and some bad clusters (or similar) are preventing it from being written properly. Try to defrag or chkdsk your hard drive (if you haven't already).
You can also try going back to 91.47 ForceWare drivers and see what happens. Just some wild guesses, but you should make sure it only happens in FEAR XP.
 
Nv4_dsp.dll errors are graphics card related. I had this issue with a previous game. I ended up changing my gfx card and the problems went away.
 
spicey said:
Nv4_dsp.dll errors are graphics card related. I had this issue with a previous game. I ended up changing my gfx card and the problems went away.
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I know, but he did say "lately", which means he didn't only get those kinds of errors.
 
Silus said:
Does this only happen in FEAR XP ?
As I was reading your post, I was getting the impression your RAM was going bad, but then you said you ran memtest for 12 hours and everything was ok.
Your hard drive might also be the problem, when for example, the swap file is being used and, and some bad clusters (or similar) are preventing it from being written properly. Try to defrag or chkdsk your hard drive (if you haven't already).
You can also try going back to 91.47 ForceWare drivers and see what happens. Just some wild guesses, but you should make sure it only happens in FEAR XP.
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Since my reinstall of XP, I have only reloaded FEAR and UT2K4, but before the reinstall, Titan's Quest would crash to desktop at the same point, very early in LVL1. I also forgot to mention I patched FEAR to the latest 1.08 patch as well. I have run chdsk and defrag, both successfully without error, as well as hdtune and hdtach. Also my drives are 2 Raptors in RAID 0 and it reports as HEALTHY in the BIOS And using all tests.

Thats what is so odd about this, I am sure its a hardware issue, but can't isolate it to one piece of hardware.
 
BigFNDeal said:
bump, come on people, a little help here.
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Well, since you've tried almost everything, you can try switching your graphics card (by another you own or ask a friend), just to be sure it's a graphics card problem.
Another thing you could try is switching your RAM modules. I'm really thinking that's a RAM issue, even though the tests went fine.
 
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