BSOD adventures - NVIDIA GTS250/ nvlddmkm.sys

[Daarck]

Hey folks, wonder if anyone has a light to shed on this problem I'm having.

I bought my current pc from a uk-based builder/supplier over a year ago to mainly play WoW on, and to that end all has been good. Recently I've been trying different games and my machine is not taking to them quite as well as I'd hope.

At the moment I can reliably play WoW, the L4Ds, Dead Island and other assorted goodness with no problems, but trrying to get D&D Daggerdale or Batman Arkham Asylum has my machine freezing, BSODing or doing a weird 'power is obviously on but the picture just died and the monitor goes into standby' thing. Great fun.

I've spent the weekend trying different drivers, uninstalling, wiping everything Nvidia-ish off my machine and reinstalling from scratch to no avail, changed the slot the Gfx card sits in (no difference) and done all the housekeeping and testing I've seen advised on various websites - nothing works. A few minutes after starting Daggerdale, or a few minutes after starting Batman AA and it just dies.

I know from looking that this isn't an uncommon - or even a new - problem; I was wondering if anyone here had come across and if they had managed to fix it?

Cheers

Stevie

 

[Daarck]

damn - sig failure - here's my machine -
Asus P7H57D-V EVO mobo
Intel i5 cpu
Nvidia GTS250 graphics card
4GB Ram
Win 7 x64bit
ViewSonic VP2365wb monitor

 

[Daarck]

Hey folks - more fannying around, more info (hopefully)

Ran a program (BlueScreenViewer) that highlighted 3 files that are causing the problem; I intentionally made the pc fail a number of times and the error report was always the same - BCC code 116, and the Blue Screen message blames the nvlddmkm.sys file, but the BSViewer also shows problems with dxgkrnl.sys and dxgmms1.sys.

Anyone have an idea?:

 

[yashiro]

Which drivers have you tried?

 

[Daarck]

Hi Yashiro

My pc is a little over a year old, and in that time I've always kept it update with Nvidia drivers, so at the moment it's running the new driver that's been released for BF3 - it's made no difference.

Edit - tried older drivers last night, starting from one that didn't recognise my card, and moving on to the first one that did, a 270.xx version - same problem - no drivers in between then and now make any difference either.

 

[Daarck]

Giving up on this one - it really does seem to be something that needs pro (ie - the actual developers) attention rather than me hacking around. Have went for the extreme option - running both games, successfully and for extended periods on an old XP machine with an ATI 3850 graphics card. Seems the future of gaming is to back the way.