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Edix
Village Dweller
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 4
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| Gothic 2: Blue Screens of death and Windows protection error |
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Today i bought Gothic 2. Was 10$. I didnt expect much of this game for 10$. But what i didnt expect was it to destroy my computer ... twice.
After i installed the game and tryed to run the game it would do that loading screen and the lil thing would load and load and load .... but nothing would happen. In the taskmonitor it said "not responding." So after about the 3rd time of uninstalling and reinstalling and makeing sure i had all the right drivers and updates and all that jazz I decided i would just let it "run" even though it said it was unresponsive. When i did that it acualy would do something ... destroy my computer! It would give me that Windows blue screen (of death) and give me a bunch of hexdecimal crap (basicly telling me something wrong with the memory) not once, but twice. After Exiting the Blue screen (of death) The computer would then run for a bit. Then crash, hard lock up forceing a reboot. Apon Rebooting the computer I got the dreaded "windows protection error. Restart your system". There is no fix for this you have to format and reinstall your system.
After i did this. Reformating and reinstalling eveything (about a 2-3 hour endevor) I tryed the game again. Samething happend. Only thing dif form each time was the DirectX number. The frist time it was 9.xx the second time it was 8.xx. Obviusly this is a big deal. Hard crashing and forced Format and reinstall of an entire OS is a MAJOR bug. And this game should of never been released to anyone. Not even for 10$. Not even for a .01 Cent!
Here is my specs:
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System Information
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Time of this report: 8/31/2004, 23:22:42
Machine name: L4L8C5
Operating System: Windows 98 (4.10, Build 2222) A
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: n/a
System Model: n/a
BIOS: n/a
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 54MB used, 1482MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 4.09.0000.0904 32bit
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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type:
DAC type:
Device Key:
num\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0201&SUBSYS_2861107D&REV_A3\280800
Display Memory: 127.5 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit)(optimal refresh rate)
Monitor: CTX VL700 series
Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024
Driver Name: nvdisp.drv
Driver Version: 4.14.0010.6176 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 7/12/2004 16:50:00, 126624 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: No
WHQL Date Stamp: None
VDD: *vdd
Mini VDD: nvmini.vxd
Mini VDD Date: , 0 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4141-11CF-ED6B-6B0802C2C935}
endor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0201
SubSys ID: 0x2861107D
Revision ID: 0x00A3
Revision ID: 0x00A3
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D
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Sound Devices
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Description: DirectSound (SB Live! Wave Out [E400])
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_00201102&REV_04\BUS_00&DEV_0D&FUNC_00
Manufacturer ID: 2
Product ID: 104
Type: VXD
Driver Name: EMU10K1.VXD
Driver Version: 4.11.0001.0711 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: No
Date and Size: 4/3/2000 01:07:00, 265293 bytes
Other Files: emu10k1.vxd
Driver Provider: Creative
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0xF1F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 100000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 32, 32
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 32, 32
HW Memory: 524288
Voice Management: Yes
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Registry: OK
If its my system causeing the problem, and i dout it, then so be it. But I really like some answers though i dout this game will ever be installed or played by me ever even if it was to work. But then again maybe if I get good customer service i just might buy a game form this company/s again. |
Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:27 am |
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Edix
Village Dweller
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 4
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Well, I admit when im wrong.
It's not the game. It is infact a problem with the nvida drivers, the newest oens.61.76_win9x_english Are the ones i was useing.
They cause the Blue screen (of death). And the fix is to remove them and use later versions.
This might be important to place in a FAQ. |
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Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:54 pm |
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Edix
Village Dweller
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 4
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Oh almost forgot. Do this if you can't Get back in to windows after the Blue screen of death. If it dosent work you need to reformat/reinstall. (this is for win98se)
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If you still can't get back in windows, try this... hold F8 while the system boots up, when the boot menu comes up, select "Command Prompt". Then, at the command prompt type: scanreg /restore (Editor: and restart)
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Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:04 pm |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
Welcome to the forums! 
Itīs generally speaking at least unnecessary to go for the latest driver for an older card. Development on the GeForce3 Ti part of this big driver collection stopped years ago.
I would prefer to find a driver which works perfectly and then stick to it.
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Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:36 pm |
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Edix
Village Dweller
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 4
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quote:
Originally posted by Gorath
Welcome to the forums!
Itīs generally speaking at least unnecessary to go for the latest driver for an older card. Development on the GeForce3 Ti part of this big driver collection stopped years ago.
I would prefer to find a driver which works perfectly and then stick to it.
Indeed. But there is still no excuse for nvidia to do what this driver set dose.  |
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Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:49 pm |
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