More Vista Problems!!!!

bluestreak101 · 13 Jul 2008 at 15:24

Ok im on the verge of applying an extremely large hammer to my computer please can some one help me!

Im running Windows Vista Ultimate 32 and im trying to play some games. No matter what I try the games will always crash to desktop or the display driver will stop responding.

Now orignally I kept having nvlddmkm has stopped responding blah blah blah. and games would just freeze and then eventually BSoD with something about nvlddmkm.sys. I seem to have got round this problem, but now games .exe's just crash. It will be fine through the game menu's and setting them up etc, but 5 mintues or less of game play and I get thrown back to the desktop with 'game.exe has stopped working...'

I have checked the event logs and this is what I can find:

Faulting application cfs3.exe, version 3.0.0.21007, time stamp 0x3da20044, faulting module nvd3dum.dll, version 7.15.11.7519, time stamp 0x482e068c, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x002ebe04, process id 0x15dc, application start time 0x01c8e4f1cc864714.

If you need anything else to work out this problem please just ask and tell me how to get it and I will.

Thanks

bluestreak101 · 13 Jul 2008 at 15:26

Oh heres a run down of my system:
ASUS Crosshair
A64 6000+ X2
2Gig Corsair 6400
Striped 74Gig raptors x2
BFG 8800 GTS 640
Enermax 485W Noisetaker

bluestreak101 · 13 Jul 2008 at 17:18

HarryPainful said:
Its a driver problem, not a vista problem.

cf33.exe is running then the problem is with nvd3dum.dll.

Mattey1 looks like a driver error, try some different drivers

thats exactly what I thought at first so tried using some older drivers from my cd, then with some I downloaded a while back, 169 I think, and most recently with the latest one today.

I will try what you say now craig and mr grouse and come back to you!

bluestreak101 · 13 Jul 2008 at 17:52

hi again,

I have tried the two solutions and neither have worked :-(

although the driver sweeper kept crashing and didnt appear to be too stable either.

This is really annoying, all I wanted to do was play some games. Im missing something here. and cant figure out what it is.

bluestreak101 · 13 Jul 2008 at 22:08

Ok, I have done the one thing that should have fixed it if it was a problem with the system and re-installed windows. some problem exists :-(

what could this be?

bluestreak101 · 14 Jul 2008 at 08:36

I ran memtest for 8 hours over night and it hasnt reported anything. although the memory was stating it was running at 430Mhz and not 667Mhz as it is supposed to.

I have tried changing the timings on the motherboard but that didnt affect the results in memtest, would this be causing a problem?

bluestreak101 · 14 Jul 2008 at 14:35

I have been back and checked the temps and they all seem to be ok, but I did notice that the temp i was getting on the sensors i've put on the GFX is reading 65C I havent checked it when it crashes mind so will have a look.

everything else seems to run at a reasonably low temp, mid 30's to mid 40's across the board.

The north bridge has the RoG's cooler from ASUS on it and am un willing to take it off to re-paste it but maybe this would help.

Whats a good GFX cooler to replace the stock bfg one?

bluestreak101 · 14 Jul 2008 at 16:59

Ok I will try the following tonight and come back:

uninstalling the Nvidia drivers and let Vista do its own thing with drivers in windows update!

bluestreak101 · 14 Jul 2008 at 18:57

Tried it and still has the same issue any one else had better luck?

bluestreak101 · 15 Jul 2008 at 12:39

Man this is so annoying. I have one game that I havent had any issues with ever! Day of Defeat Source. It has never caused my Vista installs to crash. suggesting this cant be a hardware fault.