HL2:EP2 bluescreening

Durzel

Durzel

Durzel

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First off I should state that I consider my PC to be stable - the only time it locks up on me under normal circumstances is if I accidentally overclock the graphics card without remembering to change the voltage (oops!).

That said, I can't get through the video intro of HL2:EP2 without a BSOD, every single time. First one mentioned ha10kx2k.sys (Creative driver I think), 2nd time it was atikmdag (ATI), a couple of other attempts just resulted in a hard lock with no BSOD but garbled sound. It doesn't seem to matter whether I run HL2:EP2 from the moment I start my PC (i.e. everything cold) or after I've used it for a bit, etc.

I've run Memtest+ and it's shown no errors, I'm underclocking my PC from what I already know it's stable at, I haven't had any problems with any other game including Portal, TF2, etc.

I'm running the latest Catalyst 7.10 drivers, with the ATI Smart service disabled (as I've always run it, as I use ATITool for overclocking).

Anyone got any thoughts?
 
Durzel said:
First off I should state that I consider my PC to be stable - the only time it locks up on me under normal circumstances is if I accidentally overclock the graphics card without remembering to change the voltage (oops!).

That said, I can't get through the video intro of HL2:EP2 without a BSOD, every single time. First one mentioned ha10kx2k.sys (Creative driver I think), 2nd time it was atikmdag (ATI), a couple of other attempts just resulted in a hard lock with no BSOD but garbled sound. It doesn't seem to matter whether I run HL2:EP2 from the moment I start my PC (i.e. everything cold) or after I've used it for a bit, etc.

I've run Memtest+ and it's shown no errors, I'm underclocking my PC from what I already know it's stable at, I haven't had any problems with any other game including Portal, TF2, etc.

I'm running the latest Catalyst 7.10 drivers, with the ATI Smart service disabled (as I've always run it, as I use ATITool for overclocking).

Anyone got any thoughts?
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Are you running it through Steam?
 
HL2:EP2 caused my PC to bluescreen last night. something about the nVidia driver .sys file. started with a lockup + looping sound, then bluescreened. this was after about 3 hours play though.

the PC was totally stable at the time because i hadn't overclocked it. (everything = stock)
 
ahh if its the nvidia driver that explains why the new set someone posted in the gfx card section the new nvidia driver has compatability fixes for portal and episode 2.
 
Robbie G said:
Are you running it through Steam?
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Yeah, running it through Steam.

As for CPU stability, I checked it with ORTHOS a while back - admittedly I haven't checked recently but nothing has changed on the system, and I'm underclocking it from what I previously tested it at. I'm not having any problems with anything else on the system.

Gonna try running it again but this time I'll skip the video intro.
 
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