CRAPPY BLUESCREEN

[heywood jablome]

hey yo all, I got a problem. every time I run vice city I eventually get a crash and a blank blue screen.

this always happens when i get near the Malibu Club and sometime happens at other places. Its strange because San Andreas and Age of Empires 3 runs fine on my system.

here are my system specs.

 

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

OS Service Pack Service Pack 2

DirectX 9.0c

 

 

(CPU) Intel Pentium 4, 2533 MHz

(motherboard)Intel Blue Mountain D845EBT (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DIMM, Audio, LAN, IEEE-1394)

(Motherboard Chipset) Intel Brookdale i845E

System Memory 512 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)

BIOS Type AMI (06/18/02)

 

 

Display

Video Adapter RADEON X800 PRO Secondary (256 MB)

Video Adapter RADEON X800 PRO (256 MB)

3D Accelerator ATI Radeon X800 Pro (R420)

Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (1240210079707)

 

Multimedia

Audio Adapter Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1] (integrated audio)

 

Storage

IDE Controller Intel® 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB

SCSI/RAID Controller WinXP Promise FastTrak100 Controller

SMART Hard Disks Status OK

 

any suggestions, if not i might

[Spuds725]

any mods?? Did it work before??

 

Please read the pinned thread that list everything you should include in a help post-- you included most of it but are mission some vital info...

 

Saves people from asking some basic questions (like above)

 

I'm betting it is a mod though-- since this will typically affect certain areas of the map when it tries to draw something that is messed up.

[heywood jablome]

Oops sorry about that. Nope no mods, i have reinstalled it more times than i can remember, its always done this ever since i got it, everything runs great except it crashes to a blank blue screen without warning when i get near the malibu club. (no error messages or anything of that sort)

I have read the bug list, nothing in there like this.

It seems like certain areas cause it to crash.

If I missed something srry again, if theres anything else that would help please let me know.

(o, btw chipset drivers are up to date and so are the video card drivers)

[Spuds725]

I meant the READ THIS BEFORE POSTING A HELP THREAD

 

You missed--

 

• History: Is this your first install? Did it work once before? Anything that is relevant.

 

•Did the game work normally at any time before, did you change anything

 

 

Are all your drivers up to date??

 

Have you tried disabling background programs that might be resource hogs.

 

One obvious thing is to delete your .set file in your user files directory as this stores your settings-- let the game reset this for you by deleting your existing one.

 

Try lowering the video resolution-- turn frame limiter on, turn draw distance down, etc...

[heywood jablome]

well i reinstalled all my drivers and found out i missed a sound card driver somehow.

I installed it and now all is well, kick ass!

thanks for your help