BSOD & dxgkrnl.sys ?

[Bonobo 1er]

Hello all !

 

After many problems and solutions in order to make GTA IV more stable, I have finally decided to switch from Vista 32 bits to Vista 64 Bits and then take a profit of 4GB RAM. I have also bought an SSD to install Vista and GTA IV.

 

With this brand new system, I hope I could avoid these continuous disk access that made the game so slow and sometimes freeze or glitch.

 

Good news ! No more disk access. Thanks to my 4GB and this SSD who does not really care of continous accesses. The game looks stable with no graphical issues

 

Bad news ! The game freezes after 5 minutes. Got a BSOD talking shortly about a NON_PAGED_xxxx with the file "dxgkrnl.sys"

 

Has anyone already encountered this issue ? I have been looking for exaplanation about this DirectX file. Hard to know if graphics or storage hardwares are concerned. Maybe both ? This is why I ask you here. Knowing this issue is good, knowing the solution is best !

 

Thanks in advance !

 

Bonobo

CPU : E8600 [o/c to 4.5Ghz]

GPU : GTX 260 [driver 185.20 ... also tried the previous ones but unsuccessfully]

RAM : 4GB

OS : Vista 64 [sP1 + all updates installed]

DISK : Patriot Memory 64GB

 

 

[thales100]

Hello all !

 

After many problems and solutions in order to make GTA IV more stable, I have finally decided to switch from Vista 32 bits to Vista 64 Bits and then take a profit of 4GB RAM. I have also bought an SSD to install Vista and GTA IV.

 

With this brand new system, I hope I could avoid these continuous disk access that made the game so slow and sometimes freeze or glitch.

 

Good news ! No more disk access. Thanks to my 4GB and this SSD who does not really care of continous accesses. The game looks stable with no graphical issues

 

Bad news ! The game freezes after 5 minutes. Got a BSOD talking shortly about a NON_PAGED_xxxx with the file "dxgkrnl.sys"

 

Has anyone already encountered this issue ? I have been looking for exaplanation about this DirectX file. Hard to know if graphics or storage hardwares are concerned. Maybe both ? This is why I ask you here. Knowing this issue is good, knowing the solution is best !

 

Thanks in advance !

 

Bonobo

CPU : E8600 [o/c to 4.5Ghz]

GPU : GTX 260 [driver 185.20 ... also tried the previous ones but unsuccessfully]

RAM : 4GB

OS : Vista 64 [sP1 + all updates installed]

DISK : Patriot Memory 64GB

You may try the following (at the same time) :

 

1- Disable all the CPU / GPU overclock and see how it goes. You can get back to it later if it works fine without it, i found out GTA 4 requires an extremely stable overclock, even more than stability tests like BurnIn i.e. (i could adjust my quad oc to pass in BurnIn for 5 consecutive tests, using 100% load for CPU and RAM, but that would miserably fail while running GTA 4).

 

2- At Nvidia Control Panel choose the option "Let the 3D application decide", dont use any custom / forced adjustments. I had some BSoD when simulating forced adjustments, what doesnt mean of course everybody that uses it will necessarily crash, but may worth a try.

 

Hope this can help you, your rig should (and will) run GTA 4 very well.

 

 

[Big_Crim]

Sounds like its a problem with your graphic cards memory module. GTA 4 uses a lot of memory more so then other games and this may be why only GTA is being effected. Its common with older 8600 series cards.

[Graven]

Never actually upgraded OS but if You did that without uninstalling game I suggest full uninstall reinstall.

 

Its common with older 8600 series cards.

The guy has GTX260, if I can read.

[[VcG]Adam]

so ,what changes did you make to vista before you started getting these bsod's

 

i had this problem b4 when oc'ing my phenom 9500 [x4] ,constant bsod's made even more constant bsod's

are you having many of them with your cpu?

also ..

whats your cpu core voltage @ ?

[mkey82]

To be on the safe side, cleanup your gpu drivers and install fresh ones. Even though, if installed fresh Vista recently, this shouldn't be a problem.