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[Phaedra Sanguine]

Either the game is crashing my videocard or my videocard needs replacing...

Three times today the video has locked up and caused me to exit the game and restart my computer, but only once did I recieve an error stating that my video driver had stopped responding.

Is the game causing this? Or should I go buy a replacement card? Using an 8800gts right now.


More info:

This had only started happening upon playing DA:O, which is saddening, because I LOVE this game. I do think that the .dll you mentioned is the one that failed, but I'm not sure, would have to duplicate the error. Was going to purchase a new card and a psu, but here I am on the forums and using my computer just fine. I'm thinking it may just be overheating -- not sure. (what happens is the game's video will just freeze and I'll get weird artifacts all over the place)

Here are my specs:

MSI K9N Neo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Processor
4 gigs of Ramm
Nvidia GeForce 8800gts
Double 250g h/ds (although this probably isn't relevant)
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

Um... I just recently took an air compressor to the case, but you guys think I could just position a fan directly on top of the card? My game performs pretty well most of the time, although I do get video lag here and there, perhaps that does mean overheating.

My system says that my video driver version is 8.16.11.9107, which I believe means that it's 9.1 or something, I THINK that is the most up-to-date, unless they just recently released another update.

Maybe you guys will save me 350 dollars lol...

Modifié par Paxcorpus, 11 novembre 2009 - 12:44 .

[Phaedra Sanguine]

bump

[gizzt]

It can be either.
Card could be overheating, PSU could be overworked or both.
Or it could be a software driver issue.

First I would try updating your drivers.
If that does not work, or they are already up to date, try older ones.
I would also run a program like hwinfo32 to detect your video card temps.

Tell me, does it work/dont work with other games, which games?

Also, post your system parts.

Modifié par gizzt, 11 novembre 2009 - 02:31 .

[Fester Pot]

I've seen a few folks posting here who are having issues with GeForce 8800GTS.

Is it nv4_disp.dll by chance that you receice the error on?

Open up your case and blow a fan right into it. Cool your motherboard and graphic card. Play Dragon Age while doing this.

Still craps out?

Modifié par Fester Pot, 11 novembre 2009 - 02:33 .

[Disz]

I got the same error when I replaced my 8800/640 with a 9800 series card. Are you getting a random black screen as well?

[Phaedra Sanguine]

Ah, sorry it took so long to reply...

This had only started happening upon playing DA:O, which is saddening, because I LOVE this game. I do think that the .dll you mentioned is the one that failed, but I'm not sure, would have to duplicate the error. Was going to purchase a new card and a psu, but here I am on the forums and using my computer just fine. I'm thinking it may just be overheating -- not sure. (what happens is the game's video will just freeze and I'll get weird artifacts all over the place)

Here are my specs:

MSI K9N Neo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Processor
4 gigs of Ramm
Nvidia GeForce 8800gts
Double 250g h/ds (although this probably isn't relevant)
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

Um... I just recently took an air compressor to the case, but you guys think I could just position a fan directly on top of the card? My game performs pretty well most of the time, although I do get video lag here and there, perhaps that does mean overheating.

My system says that my video driver version is 8.16.11.9107, which I believe means that it's 9.1 or something, I THINK that is the most up-to-date, unless they just recently released another update.

Maybe you guys will save me 350 dollars lol

Modifié par Paxcorpus, 11 novembre 2009 - 12:42 .

[ChandlerL]

Did that 8800gts come with the system or did you add it afterwards?

[Phaedra Sanguine]

I built the system, so got it all at once.

[Kyllswytch]

Video drive, video card, or power supply. The game itself cant cause the driver to fail unless the driver itself is faulty, or any of the aforementioned reasons. You used to see this a lot during the era of no name card manufacturers, but now its basically any of those three as the cause.

[ChandlerL]

I had a feeling. Have you checked the voltages on the PSU? Be sure if replace it you go with a reputable vendor that advertises true wattage ratings.

[Phaedra Sanguine]

Well, if I have to replace it, I already have both a card and a PSU picked out on newegg.com, would just like to figure out if I really have to spend the money.

[ChandlerL]

Makes sense:

Before spending $

Begin with full driver maintenance:

Update your video driver to the latest  (Check the manufacturers web site)
Update your sound driver to tha latest (Check the manufacturers web site)

The tougher ones:
Update your chipset drivers. Motherboard manufacturer will have the latest, but sometimes safer/easier to check the company that manufactured the system though not as effective.
Update your SATA drivers

Update your ACPI drivers
Update your network drivers. Motherboard manufacturer or network card manufacturer will have the latest, but sometimes safer/easier to check the company that manufactured the system though not as effective.
Update your mouse drivers
Update your attached peripheral drivers or remove the from your system temporarily while you diagnose.
Last but not least, if all else has failed, update your BIOS

Run Windows Update and make sure all Important & Recommended updates have been installed.

In case DirectX wasn't installed with the game, go to http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en and install DirectX which will make sure DirectX is up to date

Modifié par ChandlerL, 11 novembre 2009 - 01:23 .

[Phaedra Sanguine]

Well, I tried updating what I could... crashed again and am now in safe mode with networking.. the blue screen I got twice on normal startup mentioned something about an NVL .dll of some kind. :/

[m51venatici]

8800GT 512mb on Vista 64 ultimate. No problems for me.



If you got a windows kernel dump/core file from the crash, you may be able to translate (or get it translated for you) to help determine the cause. Though it may or may not help.

[Phaedra Sanguine]

It's deff. the videocard... I now have blue lines all over my screen, went and purchased myself a cheaper solution to the problem. ...a 9400gt 1gb GPU. Not what I was originally going to buy, but decided not to blow a bunch of money. I just wanna play my character.

[vlad69]

mine is super jerky and i have it on the lowest settings and its still rely rely jerky

[Gorath Alpha]

"Me, too" comments have no usefulness to anyone in a forum for PC platform games.

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/2836375

(That is a link to the description of the most useful way to include needed diagnostic information.)

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 03 août 2010 - 11:59 .

[vlad69]

no im on pc and my specs met the ones on the box but i figured it out kind of it ran jerky on meadum but i played with the settings and set it to high and it runs fine for some reason