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Bsod .

zer303606zer303606 Posts: 124 Arc User
edited May 2014 in PC & Technical Issues
got a blue screen of death as its called. memory issues or something.
what can i do to prevent this from happening again?
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  • prootwaddleprootwaddle Posts: 232 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    It could be anything, from your machine itself, to the game or an interaction between the game and the machine.

    To give you proper advice you would need to disclose;
    1. What kind of computer your using and how old it?
    2. What operating system you are using (MacOS, Windows 7, etc.)?
    3. Is CO a recent install and if so what did you install for the first time when you installed it?

    Here are something potential things to consider (especially if you have a Windows system):
    1. Are your drivers up to date (sometimes older drivers have bugs that have been fixed)?
    2. Is there plenty of space on your C: drive (Windows uses this drive to "think")?
    3. In what situation does the Blue Screen of Death occurr?
    Superhero stories, done well, are about modern archetypes.

    A Prootwaddle is one of the weirder player-character races in "The Fantasy Trip", Steve Jackson's first published role-playing game.
  • zer303606zer303606 Posts: 124 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    hmm i cleared some space and bought a defrag fix system utility. had alot of problems and not much space.
    seems to cleared it up now. *knock on wood*
    thanks for you reply :)
  • zer303606zer303606 Posts: 124 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    update: had another bsod today :(
    and this is the only game thats on strike atm.
    have the latest drivers and running a good pc on win 7.
  • beldinbeldin Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    Bluescreen are normally produced either by hardware or driver problems.

    When the blue screen occurs, have a look if there stand something like : in module xyz

    In that case the module name would be interesting.

    I had a lot of fun with bluescreen when i played Age of Conan because of NVidia drivers.
    Wasted 10-20 hours just for installing and testing maybe 20 driver versions until i found one
    that was relative stable.

    Years later when i played Lotro i found out that they had the same problems there, and that
    it was a common problem from NVidia in combination with Soundblaster X-Fi.
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  • fr0gurtfr0gurt Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    BSOD is usually a low-level problem, typically failing hardware, bad drivers, or corrupted OS.

    Some other things you can try:

    * If your PC has hardware diagnostics, try running those.
    * Run Scandisk, and have it check for bad sectors.
    * Go to Start Menu -> Run... and run "dxdiag". Does it report any issues?
    * Go to Control Panel -> Device Manager. Are there any devices flagged with a warning icon?
    * Open the case and clean out the dust bunnies. You never know...
  • prootwaddleprootwaddle Posts: 232 Arc User
    edited January 2013
    zer303606 wrote: »
    hmm i cleared some space and bought a defrag fix system utility. had alot of problems and not much space.
    seems to cleared it up now. *knock on wood*
    thanks for you reply :)

    As you have found out checking the C: drive, and ensuring there is enough space, is a useful bit of advice that can sometimes solve a whole number of weird problems. Consider such high-level tasks as house-keeping for your system.

    Once you have done such basic work you can work on the lower level problems as people have suggested.

    A worthwhile thing to do is to note down any message you can see on a blue screen of death for it may seem to be garbage but the original purpose of it was to allow debugging.

    Nostalgia: When I worked on early Xerox graphical desktop/mouse systems in the late 80s the whole system was written in Mesa, right down to operating system and the Xerox equivalent of BSoD, for a developer, would cause a swap to a parallel operating system so you could immediately start debugging and pull every piece of source code - allowing you to pin down the problem and recommend the necessary change.
    Superhero stories, done well, are about modern archetypes.

    A Prootwaddle is one of the weirder player-character races in "The Fantasy Trip", Steve Jackson's first published role-playing game.
  • shamanofdawnshamanofdawn Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Not to hijack, but since i am "new" I cannot start a thread of my own; I have had a bsod twice while downloading the client. It gets around 50% (even less) and blue screens on me... something akin to a memory dump if i remember correctly. I don't understand why it would do this while DLing.

    No errors that I can see

    edit: i looked at the errors in the CO folder and found these (if there's anyone ever here to help)

    140518 04:10:09 15 [1]: HTTP patching problem (ContentLengthIncorrect):
    140518 04:10:09 19 [1]: devassert: xfer->use_http

    and i got this off my bsod error:

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 1033

    Additional information about the problem:
    BCCode: d1
    BCP1: 0000000000000050
    BCP2: 0000000000000002
    BCP3: 0000000000000000
    BCP4: FFFFF8800156B250
    OS Version: 6_1_7601
    Service Pack: 1_0
    Product: 768_1
    System Information
    Time of this report: 5/17/2014, 23:54:23
    Machine name: MELANIE-PC
    Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144)
    Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
    System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
    System Model: To be filled by O.E.M.
    BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/21/14 11:51:11 Ver: 04.06.05
    Processor: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor (6 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
    Memory: 8192MB RAM
    Available OS Memory: 8150MB RAM
    Page File: 3770MB used, 12529MB available
    Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
    DX Setup Parameters: Not found
    User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
    System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
    DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode
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