Crysis Demo gives me a 'Red Screen of Death'

Yea, you heard that right, red..

I have a Toshiba Satellite P200 (c2d 1.66/2gb ddr2/256 hd2600) and I was trying out the Crysis Demo, and the loading screen when it is 100% loaded, the game just freezes and shortly after windows gives me a RSOD saying a serious error has occured, and it restarts my laptop.

I am using Vista Premium 32bit, modified Catalyst 7.11 -- any ideas?

Thanks

 

If crysis is the only game that does that, it`s a driver issue. If there`s more than one RSOD , then it might be hardware related.
I think you shoud start looking for a driver for Crysis, since nvidia based GPUs have http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ for better drivers...I have no idea about ATI based ones though...try Omega drivers http://www.omegadrivers.net/

 

Thanks for the reply -- but yea, it only happens with Crysis, I just tested it again in a window at 800x600(!) resolution, and the game froze again at 100% loading (the sound skips and repeats, thats how I know for sure) so I just restarted my system before I got that horrible red screen again.

I can play CS:S/Doom 3 fine.

 

wow an rsod sounds pretty serious. i dont know what to say. most bsod's are from hardware related issues. have u checked ur temps?

 

I've checked GPU temps and after a LOST PLANET benchmark the max I have seen is 45C

 

RSOD? Awesome!

 

Try running the game in DX9 mode. DirectX 10 is meaningless in Crysis - it reduces performance to the point where you have to reduce the settings, effectively making DirectX 9 mode look better because you can run with higher settings.

Right-click your Crysis shortcut, go to the end of the Target line, put a space after the last quote, and put -dx9 to make it run in DX9 mode. See if that fixes anything.