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    UT 2k4 and blue screen of death

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Pure_Evil, Sep 15, 2005.

  1. Pure_Evil

    Pure_Evil Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just bought a Insperion 9300 (specs in sig) for gaming and taking to Lan parties. I mostly play UT 2004. I have found that when I alt/tab to minmize the game and go to desk top, or if I successfully accomplish it, when I return to the game I get the blue screen of death stating a major issue occured and a memory dump took place. then I reboot and sometimes I have to reset my display settings. Keep in mind, I never have these issues on my desktop.

    I already went to Dell's tech support and they said my hardware is fine and wanted me to pay for their software support :rolleyes: kind of irked me since the rig is 3 days old...

    Any ideas? Are their any new drivers for that graphics card? I couldn't find any on Nvidia's site.
     
    Pure_Evil, Sep 15, 2005
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    I'd re-install the game and any patches it has. You obviously have more than enough hardware to run it.
     
    Brian, Sep 15, 2005
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  3. Pure_Evil

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    I tried that.. twice :( and with all the bonus pacs... it takes forever..

    Just found that Dell released new video drivers yesterday..

    Please excuse me, I'm a laptop noob :eek:
     
    Pure_Evil, Sep 15, 2005
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    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    If those drivers don't work for you, you might wanna try drivers directly from nVidia. I am almost sure that nVidia's drivers will work on your machine.

    Good luck with the game!
     
    qwester, Sep 15, 2005
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    Update!

    The new drivers from Dell did the trick, and upped my 3D benchmark 300 points too. Now I get 85 fps while playing UT 2k4 without OC the GPU.

    Will be interesting to see how it runs BF2
     
    Pure_Evil, Sep 16, 2005
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