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[Caralampio]

I posted about this problem a long time ago, got no solution, stopped playing the game because of it, but now I want to play it through before buying and playing ME 2.

I start playing the game, everything's fine for a variable (sometimes long) time, but after a while it becomes stuttery and laggy. Then it freezes. Sometimes if I'm lucky I can save and get out before it freezes. The freeze is hard, CTRL+ALT+SUPR doesn't work to get out. Then it becomes a black screen of death with only a DOS-like cursor flashing (which doesn't work). The only way out is by rebooting cold turkey with the shutdown button. After that, windows says it recovered from a fatal error. Aside from the bother, I'm worried I might break the OS in one of these crashes.
 
I recall reading that ME1 has some kind of problem with the size of the pagefile or something like that. I wonder if someone can suggest something in that line.

Intel® Pentium® D CPU 2.80GHz
2792 MHz
2.99 GB
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT  VRAM 1.00 GB
driver 258.96
SigmaTel Audio
driver 5.10.4823.0
Win XP SP3

Note: the Sigmatel audio is generic, there are no new drivers for it, and it generally sucks.

Modifié par Caralampio, 06 mars 2011 - 10:06 .

[Moondoggie]

That sounds like either youe GPU is overheating or it;s dying. What heat readings are you getting from it? And how old is it?

[Caralampio]

I never have the problem with any other game or program, so I doubt it's the GPU. Temps are fine anyway. I have ME running right now and the temp is 65°. It's 2 or 3 years old.

Edit: I just had another crash. This time there was a "general protection fault" message. This was after reinstalling the game.

Modifié par Caralampio, 07 mars 2011 - 04:46 .

[Gorath Alpha]

GPFs on this game are almost exclusively caused by various bad drivers from nVIDIA; just run a Google search (or Yahoo) with a site: redirector pointed back into here and you'll see a goodly number of messages about it, although the worst of it was when ME-1 for the PC was still comparatively new, and that was on the old "Legacy" Bioware forums.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 07 mars 2011 - 05:56 .

[Kloreep]

Another possible crashing source is third-party video utilities. ASUS' SmartDoctor/Gamer OSD, for instance.

[Caralampio]

I'll download the latest drivers and see how it goes. As for downclocking and clearing CMOS, I'm not sure how it's done and probably prefer not to mess with that...