I may have exaggerated somewhat. I also have a 9800 GT, and haven't had the same kind of hit or miss results with drivers for it (the 9600 GT, incidentally, amounts to a renamed 8800 GS, I believe). The last few years I depend on Radeons first, and Geforces second. I will pay more for the Radeon than vice versa, in spite of the fact that nVIDIA artificially enforces higher pricing and poorer value.
I still do buy some Geforces, but used, on eBay, inexpensively, while I buy new Radeons, just waiting about a year for the price to drop.
Occasional hard crash with flickering causes subsequent "General protection fault! History: GMatrix2D" crashes upon subsequent startups—fixed (sort of)!
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Josh Echo
, juil. 24 2010 05:30
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Posté 30 juillet 2010 - 03:28
Josh Echo
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Well, I seem to have more or less fixed the problem. Windows is reinstalled now, although I lost a Mass Effect activation. The game still does the "flicker crash," but I'm able to, with difficulty, utilize combinations of Ctrl-Esc, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and Alt-Tab to painstakingly shut down the game without restarting my computer. After that, I need to restart my computer, delete all of the INI files from my C:\\\\Games\\\\Mass Effect and C:\\\\Documents and Settings\\\\Owner\\\\My Documents\\\\Bioware\\\\Mass Effect directories, and replace them with the backup INI files I had previously made. After this, Mass Effect runs fine (until the next crash, at which I must repeat the process). I just need to redo all of my options after that.
This is, of course, a rather kludgy solution, but I don't see any alternative. It beats slowly destroying Windows, and none of the driver changes I tried made any difference. The game crashes whether hardware sound is on or off, by the way. Well, whatever works ... I hope that this solution works for other people with the "General protection fault! History: GMatrix2D" crash (which is what I get when I try to start up Mass Effect after a "flicker crash" without doing the fixes I mentioned).
This is, of course, a rather kludgy solution, but I don't see any alternative. It beats slowly destroying Windows, and none of the driver changes I tried made any difference. The game crashes whether hardware sound is on or off, by the way. Well, whatever works ... I hope that this solution works for other people with the "General protection fault! History: GMatrix2D" crash (which is what I get when I try to start up Mass Effect after a "flicker crash" without doing the fixes I mentioned).
Modifié par Josh Echo, 30 juillet 2010 - 03:30 .
