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    Stalker causes BSOD? any1...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by wahad, Jun 8, 2008.

  1. wahad

    wahad Notebook Consultant

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    I have big problem when playing Stalker Shadows of Chernobyl on my laptop. Every time when im playin it i got BSOD after certain time, no matter what temps of proc and gpu are. This is only happening with Full Dynamic Lighting, dunno why. When I set it to Static Lighting, everything's cool. I got 6 BSODs for past 3days and im starting to think that my gpu (8600gt gddr2 512mb) is the main problem. I occur this problem only with Stalker, b4 that i was playing and finished Crysis, COD4, GOW, R6 Vegas2, Bioshock and couple of other games with no problem at all...
    Btw, just for the record, im playing Stalker with Oblivion Lost 2.0 mod

    Anyone know why is this happening, bug with engine code of the game

    OS: Vista Home SP1
    Laptop: Acer 5920g, 2gigs of ram, t8100, 320 WD hdd
     
    wahad, Jun 8, 2008
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  2. pukemon

    pukemon are you unplugged?

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    drivers, mod or engine error.
     
    pukemon, Jun 8, 2008
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  3. ChaosX5

    ChaosX5 Notebook Evangelist

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    whats bsod?
     
    ChaosX5, Jun 8, 2008
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    Meemat Notebook Evangelist

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    Blue Screen of Death

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    Meemat, Jun 9, 2008
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  5. Weegie

    Weegie Notebook Deity

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    I have exactly the same problem with my 1730,dynamic lighting equals BSOD when a new area or level loads after about an hour of gameplay....static lighting,like you .....works fine.

    There is quite a lot of people on the net that have had this problem with STALKER,particularly with 88** series cards and doesn't seem to matter what drivers,XP or Vista,SLI or non-sli....

    I got sick of trying new drivers,so I just finished it with static lighting :(

    I don't run a modded version and it is patched....looks like they need another one ;)
     
    Weegie, Jun 9, 2008
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  6. wahad

    wahad Notebook Consultant

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    there's only once that i've played more than 2hrs straight... and once it bsod-ed me after 5mins of gameplay...

    i've finished with static too... ugly but what the hell... im just hoping that clear sky wont have this kind of problem...
     
    wahad, Jun 9, 2008
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  7. brainer

    brainer Notebook Virtuoso

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    as Weegie said, its a problem with 8800 cards, since ive finished the game with Dynamic lightning without a single crash
     
    brainer, Jun 9, 2008
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