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    Recent BSOD's and Random BFBC2 Crashes

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by hiarieshi, Dec 21, 2011.

  1. hiarieshi

    hiarieshi Notebook Evangelist

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    -M11xR2

    So recently I've been getting BSOD's after playing LoL for a while. It'll happen at spontaneous times. I believe the error reads that what crashed the system was "nvidlyll.dll" or something of that nature. So obviously it's due to the graphics card. I was wondering the crashes were due to my driver (285.62 WQHL)

    I just recently got BFBC2 since it was only ten dollars. The program just closes and there is no error report or anything. It just closes like I quit the game. But this will happen in the middle of playing randomly. I don't think it's a punkbuster issue since there's no warning of some sort. Any fix?

    I ran all my games fine with the 260.99 drivers, it'd be nice to have that driver back. Is the 260.99 driver compatible with BFBC2?
     
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    darkdomino Notebook Deity

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    If memory serves me, the 260.99 driver has an issue with punkbuster... unless the punkbuster people fixed it. I'm not sure.

    Are you overclocked by any chance?
     
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    hiarieshi Notebook Evangelist

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    yeah I'm overclocked actually, but this never happened before? Maybe my system is taking a toll.

    The BSOD actually refers to "nysdyll.sys" or something like that for the crashes
     
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    That is definitely strange. I would do an experiment and disable overclocking entirely. Play your games as usual and if you get a BSOD, you know you've got a driver issue. If you don't get a BSOD, then you've got your answer.

    That's where I would start at least. If all that doesn't work, get yourself DriverSweeper and uninstall both your Intel Graphics Accelerator drivers and your nvidia drivers, and reinstall both of them... starting with Intel
     
    darkdomino, Dec 21, 2011
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