Asus V1S
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz
4.00 GB Ram (3.00 GB Usable)
Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT (512 MB)
This is the Steam version.
Modifié par buckX, 03 août 2010 - 02:09 .
Mass Effect Randomly Crashing
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buckX
, août 03 2010 02:06
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Posté 03 août 2010 - 02:06
buckX
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I've been having a problem with Mass Effect where at random intervals while playing, the screen will go black for about a second, then the computer will turn off. Not shutdown, turn off. Interestingly enough, I put in about 30 hours without issue, then stopped playing for a month, when I came back to it, it starting crashing enough to render the game nearly unplayable. How long it takes to crash varies, it can be 2 minutes or it can be an hour. I've been trying various nvidia drivers and the standard types of voodoo that get recommended as fixes, but nothing is giving me any success. Currently running with 197.44. My other relevant specs are:
Asus V1S
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz
4.00 GB Ram (3.00 GB Usable)
Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT (512 MB)
This is the Steam version.
Asus V1S
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz
4.00 GB Ram (3.00 GB Usable)
Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT (512 MB)
This is the Steam version.
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Posté 03 août 2010 - 04:06
Gorath Alpha
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With regard to Geforce 8n00 graphics cards, only the 8400 GS and 8600 GTS are more problematic than the mobile 8600 GT. All of them are extremely sensitive to the correct driver from nVIDIA, and there are far more that won't work, than those that will work. Start rolling backward to older ones, and testing between. You may even need to use a Driver Cleaner in between.
(Edited.) I made that sound too all-encompassing when I answered. Games with a lot of shader code included are where the Geforce drivers and the original 8n00 designs have trouble. The 8n00 cards were nVIDIA's first use of many shader units, and the original firmware had a number of anomalous segments, such as the bad fan management. The same designs, only slightly modified, appeared the following year as the 9n00 cards, in order for nVIDIA to have a "new" series of Low End and Medium cards, but while correcting the fan management, the designs were refined, and have far fewer problems.
I suspect that there are far more hidden anomalies in the 8n00s than we'll ever know about, but they make the cards seem far more erratic in how they deal with various drivers and various games than any Geforces since the FXes.
(Edited.) I made that sound too all-encompassing when I answered. Games with a lot of shader code included are where the Geforce drivers and the original 8n00 designs have trouble. The 8n00 cards were nVIDIA's first use of many shader units, and the original firmware had a number of anomalous segments, such as the bad fan management. The same designs, only slightly modified, appeared the following year as the 9n00 cards, in order for nVIDIA to have a "new" series of Low End and Medium cards, but while correcting the fan management, the designs were refined, and have far fewer problems.
I suspect that there are far more hidden anomalies in the 8n00s than we'll ever know about, but they make the cards seem far more erratic in how they deal with various drivers and various games than any Geforces since the FXes.
Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 03 août 2010 - 11:45 .
