crysis crashing...

Hi all,

I finally got my 7950 installed into my 7700 and decided it was time to play Crysis. I loaded it up and it detected my settings and placed it in medium. I tried playing the game and about 10 minutes or so the game will freeze and quit. i managed to get the error message and was hoping someone can point me in the right direction... thanks also my specs are
Windows Vista 32 bit
2GB of Ram
7950 GTX with the 169.09 drivers


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Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Crysis.exe
Application Version: 1.1.1.5767
Application Timestamp: 471f94e3
Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.15.11.6262
Fault Module Timestamp: 46f47100
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 001581d8
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 2568
Additional Information 2: 2df8029822de919ff3973d3961ff1618
Additional Information 3: 01c6
Additional Information 4: f2029c886956540ea8cd48d9c3787178

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 580138948

 

maybe check temps? i don't really know. Just trying to help

 

It's wierd but during 'Assault' when I go near one warehouse near the ship the game will crash out, badly. This happens everytime i go near the warehouse. I think the game is still quite buggy. But there should be a patch coming in the next week or so that might fix some of these issues. Just keep checking for a Crysis patch on google.

 

ok i guess ill try to mointor the temp what programs do i need to use to monitor it..? the game looks awesome i just want to play it lol

 

From looking over your info, it looks like a graphics driver crash. Is it reproduceable? I.e. does it constantly happen? You might want to uninstall your Video drivers use Driver cleaner then reinstall them. Just a thought.

 

yes its the same error message....

 

I'd suggest trying to re-install Direct X9.0C, and in addition, try to force Vista to run the game in DX9 compatibility mode. See if that makes a difference.

Oh, and if it is a heat issue like referenced above, I highly suggest getting a can of compressed air and blow out the ports. This is really something you should be doing to your laptop every one or two months. You'd be amazed at how much dust can get inside the PC. It's good preventative maintenance. =P

Crysis really will pust the limits of your hardware.

 

That information points to a driver crash, no?
"nvd3dum.dll" is an nvidia driver, and it has it as version "7.15.11.6262".
You don't have the new driver (169.09) installed correctly.

 

ok i will reinstall it tomorrow when im home.. thanks all i will post an update tomorrow cant wait!

 

ok i tried reinstalling the software and i get an error message i have no idea why its doing that i am using windows vista...

 

hmm now i cant watch any movies or anything it will blue screen if i try to watch it...

 

Do you still have a warranty?

 

on the video card?

 

ok i rolled back the drivers and it worked its verison date says 9/17/2007 for the video card
i just got the video card a few days ago fro, RJtech


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also crysis is still crashing and i still cant update the drivers im getting the same error as the picture i posted

 

bump still need help thx

 

In all honesty if you want to be sure it is your drivers, card, or something else do the following:
1. Get some spare RAM. Start swapping it in various ways and see if the crashes stop. Big mem progams like crysis will fail on ram where other programs wont.
2. Fresh install of windows. From scratch. Do bare minimum driver installs, and just enough to get the game running. It is hard to recommend a driver to try on since the official driver is so outdated, but this is the only way to guaranty no previous driver residue.
3. Try to find a free/open source boot cd that has dome testing software on it for hard driver, memory, etc. and see if any tests fail.

After doing all of that you have basically done Alienware tech support. If you still cant find the problem then I really dont know what to say. I would recommend that you keep trying until you have some idea before sending it back so that you can help guide the repair guys.

Just my two cents.

 

driver residue? I didnt even know that could happen.

 

heh...that is my term for non-properly uninstalled drivers. no matter what the uninstaller says there is always registry entries left over and the worst case is that a driver may be uninstalled but left in the Windows directory. If that happens it sometimes gets VERY hard to get the device to use or even recognize the new driver.

 

ahh i see... I think that may have happened to me before when i was uninstalling my old graphics card. Its still not completely fixed

 

so why is it i cant even install the 169 drivers? hopefully i can get this to work... i also have a partion of vista on a new drive i will give that a shot