Hello,
I made a thread about TF2 causing my video card drivers to crash a few weeks ago. Team Fortress 2 would start stuttering and black screen or just minimize. This would happen around every 20 minutes of play. I called PNY and got an RMA and I recieved a new NVIDIA 9800GT Geforce Video Card. When it would crash with my previous video card it would show the yellow triangle exclamation point sign but not display a message. With my new video card it happened to me once about 40 minutes into play and said "nvlddmkm.sys has stopped working but has been recovered." In Problem Reports and Solutions on Windows, it states that this is a LiveKernelEvent. Full info dump below. I have no idea what to do as this has happened on 2 different video cards and only on TF2. What else would be causing the problem except my video card? I've tried updating my drivers and everything but nothing works. Note: It is only Team Fortress 2. Crysis 2 can work perfectly on Extreme settings and nothing happens, even after 3 hours of straight gameplay.
Info Dump:
Description
A problem with your video hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Files that help describe the problem
WD-20110710-2134.dmp
sysdata.xml
Version.txt
Extra information about the problem
BCCode: 117
BCP1: FFFFFA80067A3010
BCP2: FFFFFA600297C6E8
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_0_6002
Service Pack: 2_0
Product: 768_1
Usually a heat or power problem, use HWmonitor to record temps. I fixed my driver problem by blowing dust out of my powersupply.
But the weird thing is that it is only on TF2, nothing else. I've recorded temperatures before when the problem occurs. The temps were around 60-80 degrees C and overheating for my drive is around 90-110. It may be a power problem, but how would it only affect one game?
[editline]11th July 2011[/editline]
Okay, I just used my air compressor in my garage and blew out the power supply after watching an instruction video on how to do so, I'll give an update if the issue happens again.
Yeah i have your exact problem, blowing the dust out of my pc certainly reduced how often it happened. My only real solution is to play valve games in linux, since it has pretty good support for those games. But i doubt anyone except me would take such drastic measures to prevent a screen blackout every now and then.
I played for around an hour after dusting out the power supply, the issue didn't occur, however, I don't think it's gone forever. I'll post if anything else goes down.
I had this a while ago. Cleaning it helped but it comes back even months later. Reinstall your drivers just to be safe, do it in safe mode with driver sweeper. This fixed it for me.
Hm, if it happens again I'll try it out. By the way, can you give me a link to the program you used or did you just uninstall the video card software in Safe Mode?
Crap, it's happened again, but this time after about an hour of gameplay, also I've played for around 2 hours straight since I cleaned the power supply and no problem happened. Anyone else have this problem?
[QUOTE=psychojake;31199223]Crap, it's happened again, but this time after about an hour of gameplay, also I've played for around 2 hours straight since I cleaned the power supply and no problem happened. Anyone else have this problem?[/QUOTE]
In my case of driver crashes, it turned out to be some bad RAM (actually 2 bad sticks) which I only discovered with many many hours of switching, changing and testing. I made a thread about it with lots of things you can check [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1100326-The-nvlddmkm-error-%28big-post-help-me-and-others%29]here[/url].
If it was a RAM problem then why would it only occur in TF2?
[QUOTE=psychojake;31213017]If it was a RAM problem then why would it only occur in TF2?[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying it definitely is, and in my case it was prone to happening in some games much more than others (no idea why). The unpredictable nature of it meant that I could have some ok sessions in games then some really bad ones. You might as well try some of the steps in the thread and see if it helps anyway.
[QUOTE=halflife_123;31216615]I'm not saying it definitely is, and in my case it was prone to happening in some games much more than others (no idea why). The unpredictable nature of it meant that I could have some ok sessions in games then some really bad ones. You might as well try some of the steps in the thread and see if it helps anyway.[/QUOTE]
Will do, thanks.
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