Blue Screen of doom

purochen
purochen Posts: 4 Arc User
edited October 2008 in Support Desk
After hours of trying to get that data4.pck fixed and actually GETTING it fixed, I was glad.
Installation went smooth, as did updating.
Logging in is no problem either.

But when I click Create, I see the creation screen with a human male for about 1 second and then WHAM I get the blue screen! It's making me quite annoyed to have random things randomly error on me, especially since everything should be right.
I have all requirements, veryfied everything during installation, don't run too many programs at once...
I can't see why blue screen would occur.

Anyone has a sollution? I'm getting quite fried here...
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  • blazmeen
    blazmeen Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Do you have any viruses on your computer? whenever i have got the blue screen that is usually a reason. You could try doing a scan or to make sure, or download the client again from another location and see if you can install it with no problems. I'm no expert but this is what I would do.
  • ren
    ren Posts: 662 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    What was the whole error?

    BSODs with XP/Vista are almost always a hardware problem, though it can be drivers at fault.
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  • purochen
    purochen Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    It's highly unlikely I have any virusses on my computer, but I'll do a scan anyway... You'll never know right?


    And yeah, hardware problems are much more likely to be the cause... but I don't want them to be D:
    My computer had a really bad crash some time ago and things in there were leaking (forgot their names, sorry... they're those "towers"... transistors maybe?). Not to mention my comp is a bit old, though it should still be working just fine as there are much older computers with equally old graphic cards and stuff working ok :/

    if it's hardware problems, I'm going to slap someone... or something... cause I don't feel like spending lotsa money or making my dad look at the comp again so I can play some awsum game...
  • embl3m
    embl3m Posts: 494 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    purochen wrote: »
    It's highly unlikely I have any virusses on my computer, but I'll do a scan anyway... You'll never know right?


    And yeah, hardware problems are much more likely to be the cause... but I don't want them to be D:
    My computer had a really bad crash some time ago and things in there were leaking (forgot their names, sorry... they're those "towers"... transistors maybe?). Not to mention my comp is a bit old, though it should still be working just fine as there are much older computers with equally old graphic cards and stuff working ok :/

    if it's hardware problems, I'm going to slap someone... or something... cause I don't feel like spending lotsa money or making my dad look at the comp again so I can play some awsum game...

    When you get the BSOD you should get an error message, write it down so we can help you better.

    BTW, 400$ will get you a comp that can run any game on the market
  • purochen
    purochen Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    at the moment i'm checking the other threads of people with the same problem
    seems to be something with ATI RADEON which I have too.... but it also seems fixable


    and 400$ won't get me far since I live in Holland/Netherlands, thus it would be more expensive either way and even if I decided to get it cheaper form the interbutts, transport costs would skyrocket...

    i wish they never implemented the euro <_< made everything more expensive...

    EDIT: I updated my ATI to 8.8 but still got the BSOD... here's what i got: 0x0000008E (0x000001D, 0xE2825869, 0xF206B88C, 0x00000000)
    I reeeeally hope someone can help me with this
  • fez
    fez Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Just go back to Catalyst 7.7 if your eager to play PW. Otherwise you can just wait till the devs fix it :D.
    ryuuzaki wrote: »
    Oh, here's some direct links for the previous official versions of the Radeon drivers:

    XP: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeonxprevious-xp.html
    Vista 32-bit: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/commonprevious-vista32.html
    Vista 64-bit: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista64/commonprevious-vista64.html


    The Topic on this problem, should read for more detailed info: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=19441
  • purochen
    purochen Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    if it works i will love you to death <3
    and yeah i COULD wait... but i really need some new shiny game to distract me from my stomach and other problems D:

    otherwise i'll just go... draw or something...

    EDIT: going back to 7.7 causes too many problems ;^; so I'll just have to wait....
  • Szioul - Heavens Tear
    Szioul - Heavens Tear Posts: 80 Arc User
    edited September 2008
    8.8 crashes instantly in-game. 7.7 causes my computer not to recognize the GPU at all. You could try going back to 7.1 or the latest Omega-drivers for Radeon., if you have x1xxx or older. Worked for me.
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  • Clara - Lost City
    Clara - Lost City Posts: 110 Arc User
    edited September 2008
    yeah..I had that kind of problem with my Vista before and it turns out it had a memory dump ;(
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  • diekante
    diekante Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited September 2008
    Hi,
    I have the same problem, installed client yesterday and got as far as char creation. I see the char screen shortly and then - BSOD. I try updating the graphics driver to either 8.9 or latest omega and will report back.
  • Adacanavar - Lost City
    Adacanavar - Lost City Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited September 2008
    well alot of my friends are now playing this game and the onlyl ones that have had issues downloading installing and updateing are those that are running cracked copys of windows aka pirated operating systems in other words things have been removed from the os in order to make it run without need for acutally purchaseing it at its ridicolous cost. Also have noticed a few issues with Nvidia cards as they tend to be shoddy on the worksmanship for alot of hte off brands of those. other than that i haven't really had any issues with the game working right other than that random bug that more peopel than just me get in game like missing gold mobs spawning in trees where i'm meditating things of that nature.
    Whys the rum always gone:eek:
  • diekante
    diekante Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited October 2008
    I can only say I have a licensed XP home ... whatever you think ;-)
  • surtr
    surtr Posts: 3,378 Perfect World Employee
    edited October 2008
    Have you recently installed new memory in your computer?
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  • diekante
    diekante Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited October 2008
    No, no recent changes to the hardware. However I upgraded to Ati drivers 8.9 which does not help. What does however is lowering the resolution from the native 1680x1050 to 1024x768 or similar. I successfully created a character and entered the game ... driver problem I suppose.
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