I have the disc version of DAII which I have updated to version 1.4. Lately the game has started to crash after I have played a very short time or almost immidiately after loading a saved game. I didn't experience this problem after I first bought the game. I have tried reinstalling the game and it seemed to work for a while. But now the crashes are back. Changes I have made since I bought the game is reinstalling windows and updated my nvidia drivers.
My system
AMD Phenom II X4 965
4 Gb PC6400 RAM
NVIDIA GTS250 1 G
Win 7 x64 fully updated
The game have started to crash
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Posté 04 octobre 2012 - 10:36
Just-Me
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Posté 04 octobre 2012 - 10:52
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Just-Me wrote...
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/6423406
I read that before posting. What information have I forgotten to give ?
What comes to my mind now is, I have
Direct X 11
Motherboard MSI MS 7551 and I use the embedded soundchip
The latest 306.23 NVIDIA drivers. The problem also occured with previous driver version
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Posté 05 octobre 2012 - 02:17
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Switch graphics settings to use the DX9 Renderer and report the results.
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Posté 05 octobre 2012 - 02:43
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The drivers are important, both audio and video!jfri wrote...
Just-Me wrote...
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/6423406
I read that before posting. What information have I forgotten to give ?
What comes to my mind now is, I have
Direct X 1
Motherboard MSI MS 7551 and I use the embedded soundchip
The latest 306.23 NVIDIA drivers. The problem also occured with previous driver version
That video card is an ancient, and Geforce drivers ignore the old stuff twice in every three drivers, maybe three times in every four! Just keep on backing up until you finally find a driver that works, or get a Radeon and not have to worry near as much any more.
P. S. You're wasting your time thinking about Dx11, because that card can't go past Dx10:
http://www.gpureview...1=571&card2=606
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Posté 05 octobre 2012 - 09:16
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Thandal NLyman wrote...
Switch graphics settings to use the DX9 Renderer and report the results.
Yes after switching to DX9 I havn't experienced any crashes
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Posté 05 octobre 2012 - 09:20
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Just-Me wrote...
The drivers are important, both audio and video!jfri wrote...
Just-Me wrote...
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/6423406
I read that before posting. What information have I forgotten to give ?
What comes to my mind now is, I have
Direct X 1
Motherboard MSI MS 7551 and I use the embedded soundchip
The latest 306.23 NVIDIA drivers. The problem also occured with previous driver version
That video card is an ancient, and Geforce drivers ignore the old stuff twice in every three drivers, maybe three times in every four! Just keep on backing up until you finally find a driver that works, or get a Radeon and not have to worry near as much any more.
P. S. You're wasting your time thinking about Dx11, because that card can't go past Dx10:
http://www.gpureview...1=571&card2=606
Yes most installation instructions stresses the importance of having the latest drivers. So I did so.
Would I be better of with a Radeon card? For FSX I have heard that NVIDIA is better. Wouldn't a Radeon give me other problems.
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Posté 05 octobre 2012 - 11:29
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Glad to hear rolling back to DX9 stopped the crashes. As Just-Me pointed out, your card cannot actually implement DX11 anyway, even though the game doesn't know any better and offers it as a choice. In that situation things will sort-of work... Right up until they don't!
Before spending any money on a different card though, I'd remind you that glitches between various graphics cards and various games seem to go in cycles. Either nVidia or AMD cards have an issue, then either the game publisher or GPU manufacturer fixes it, then there's an update to something, and a new problem is created.
So upgrading to a true DX11 card (but please, NOT the joke GT520 card that nVidia is foisting on folk) might make sense for you, but switching from one brand to the other to resolve an issue only works until the next time.
Before spending any money on a different card though, I'd remind you that glitches between various graphics cards and various games seem to go in cycles. Either nVidia or AMD cards have an issue, then either the game publisher or GPU manufacturer fixes it, then there's an update to something, and a new problem is created.
So upgrading to a true DX11 card (but please, NOT the joke GT520 card that nVidia is foisting on folk) might make sense for you, but switching from one brand to the other to resolve an issue only works until the next time.
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Posté 05 octobre 2012 - 11:45
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nVIDIA's major stockholder and Corporate Honcho is a very feisty individual. He has irritated both AMD and Intel and in one case isn't offered any chance to create chipsets, and in the other, simply cannot compete, so one of their formerly most lucrative income sources is gone.
Second, he has no X86 processor of his "own" to answer the competition at the low end, where both AMD and Intel have the onboard video included in the CPU, and AMD has the lower half of Medium covered, as well. Intel may be able to match that next year, but AMD will be on its own next step already. The low end is the biggest money maker for dedicated video cards, and that's effectively gone, now.
He's working two angles for the future and has his corporate "eye" looking elsewhere besides the gaming video cards, really. AMD will win in graphics, over nVIDIA, but both very likely will lose to Intel in the long run, unless they are caught out once again for seriously illegal dirty business practices.
Second, he has no X86 processor of his "own" to answer the competition at the low end, where both AMD and Intel have the onboard video included in the CPU, and AMD has the lower half of Medium covered, as well. Intel may be able to match that next year, but AMD will be on its own next step already. The low end is the biggest money maker for dedicated video cards, and that's effectively gone, now.
He's working two angles for the future and has his corporate "eye" looking elsewhere besides the gaming video cards, really. AMD will win in graphics, over nVIDIA, but both very likely will lose to Intel in the long run, unless they are caught out once again for seriously illegal dirty business practices.
Modifié par Just-Me, 06 octobre 2012 - 02:08 .
