Windows7 crash of death
by Steve · in Torque 3D Professional · 10/28/2009 (1:38 pm) · 12 replies
Ever since I got a new computer, installed windows7 on it, reinstalled T3D, and ported my game over, I have had nothing but trouble.
Both, in my own game, as well as in the Sticks and Twigs T3D Demo, it is just a matter of time till I get the....olive-green screen of death. Entire screen goes dull green, system locks up completely. Can not ctrl alt delete, cannot do anything at all but power off and back on.
I have had no problems running anything else beside T3D.
Asus P6T deluxeV2 mobo
intel i7 920 processor
BFG-nvidiaGT285 video card
6 gig Ram
Anyone have any idea if this could be my video card, or some setting in Windows7 or????
Thanks!
Both, in my own game, as well as in the Sticks and Twigs T3D Demo, it is just a matter of time till I get the....olive-green screen of death. Entire screen goes dull green, system locks up completely. Can not ctrl alt delete, cannot do anything at all but power off and back on.
I have had no problems running anything else beside T3D.
Asus P6T deluxeV2 mobo
intel i7 920 processor
BFG-nvidiaGT285 video card
6 gig Ram
Anyone have any idea if this could be my video card, or some setting in Windows7 or????
Thanks!
#2
10/28/2009 (2:30 pm)
Also SOUND drivers and SOUND config has been giving numerous people here problem. Try disabling or removing you sound card, if it is on-board try disabling it in the hardware manager and let me know here or send me an email and I will try to help ya out, but if you have update everything video this is probably the problem, or it may not be I guess but it seems to be a running trend as of late:O)
#3
Video memory leaks, out-of-bounds triangle indices and uninitialized video memory are prime suspects, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are some of those still lurking in T3D.
10/28/2009 (3:24 pm)
Green screen of death usually means a GPU lock up. It may or may not be caused by the software, is a hard error to reproduce and can be caused by either particular drivers version or faulty hardware. Video memory leaks, out-of-bounds triangle indices and uninitialized video memory are prime suspects, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are some of those still lurking in T3D.
#4
10/28/2009 (3:36 pm)
On Win7 here, no problems. 
#5
try some benchmarks,for example test the memory (Memtest),test the gpu.
10/28/2009 (4:01 pm)
Steve,try some benchmarks,for example test the memory (Memtest),test the gpu.
#6
10/28/2009 (5:48 pm)
on Win7 ultimate64 here and no problems. It has even fixed the graphic issues I was having with T3D under Vista Ultimate64.
#7
10/28/2009 (6:15 pm)
Thanks for the info everyone. It was a clean install with all new drivers. The video card is brand new as well...so, on a whim, I called up BFG and within 5 seconds they gave me a RMA number. He didn't ask me for any benchmarks or anything at all after I told him about the green screen of death. Hope this fixes it, but I won't know for at least 4 or 5 days. I'll post the results. 
#8
10/28/2009 (6:27 pm)
Sounds like they must have produced a bad batch of cards and have been getting plenty of calls about it. Hope your shiny new card behaves itself. 
#9
Damn environmentalist hippies changing our death screens!
:)
10/28/2009 (10:35 pm)
"green screen of death"Damn environmentalist hippies changing our death screens!
:)
#10
10/29/2009 (2:20 pm)
We actually had a machine with a bad GF6600 years ago that gave actual GSODs during boot: it was a BSOD, with STOP error codes and whatnot, but with a green background instead.
#11
11/07/2009 (4:32 pm)
New video card *appears* to have solved the problem, hallelujah! Hoping it stays that way. 
#12
11/07/2009 (5:31 pm)
Have had a few times I have seen it go green, but it hasn't locked up the whole computer. Either way, probably not good news *L*. Nice to know a new video card resolved it. Probably going to get a slightly less power hungry/heat putting out card in the future since I don't have a metric ton of air going in/out of my case. 
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