All Games Crash

[Milsey]

Hey Guys,

Today I did a reformat on my system because there were errors on there which could not be fixed, they were display driver errors at first but they got worse. They caused all my games to crash whilst playing them.

After my reformat I still get the same problem, of crashing but this time they only CTD and not the whole system.

The games that crash so far are:

X3 Reunion
Call of Duty 2
Flight Simulator X
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Age of Empires 3

Everything is upto date, drivers/direct x, theres no hard disk errors or ram problems. I have ruled those about by trial and error.

System Spec
ASUS P5N32 SLI
Pentium 3.0 ghz LGA775
2048mb DDR 2 RAM
GeForce 7800 GTX 256mb DDR2 RAM
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS

[koala]

Which Forceware driver version are you using?

Do you get any error messages or just a crash to desktop?

Run the DirectX tests in Start > Run > dxdiag > Display tab.

Post back with the details from the PSU label....
Watts?
+3.3V=?A
+5V=?A
+12V=?A

Enter your system details into this power calculator and add 30% to the total to allow for PSU inefficiency.

[Milsey]

Here is all the display info I could find. I did as you said and was unable to find PSU info.

So I looked on the box, hopefully this will help.

The PSU in my system is an Enermax ATX 12V Noisetaker 600W

+12V output rails -Split 12V rails 12V1 +12V2 Combined
+3.3V & +5V Combined Power - 220W
Min Efficiency - Full load > 75% Typical load > 75% light load > 70%
Stand-by power efficiency (Engery Star) - 50% Minimum
Serial ATA cable - Standard SATA power connectors x2
Output protectors: OCP, OVP, SCP, OTP - Standard OCP on +3.3V, +5V, +12V1 % V2 rails (meet 240VA requirements)
Output OLP - Standard


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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7800 GTX
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0091&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Philips 107E (107E2)
Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.9371 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 10/22/2006 12:22:00, 4527488 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
Mini VDD Date: 10/22/2006 12:22:00, 3994624 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-43D1-11CF-2B47-0A2000C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0091
SubSys ID: 0x00000000
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D ModeWMV9_B ModeWMV9_A
Deinterlace Caps: {212DC724-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{212DC724-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{212DC724-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(YV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{212DC724-3235-44A4-BD29-E1652BBCC71C}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
DDraw Test Result: Not run
D3D7 Test Result: Not run
D3D8 Test Result: Not run
D3D9 Test Result: Not run

[Indoril Nerevar]

Read the NVIDIA Drivers thread in my signature, and backdate to the 84.21's. Post back with results.

[Milsey]

Cheers very much for the help, I'll post back to let you know if it worked or not once my system is up and running.

[Milsey]

It would appear that the old 8 version Nvidia drivers do not solve my problem as the games on my system being Battlefield 2 and The Settlers 2 10th Aniversary edition CTD, The Settlers is time based crash, where as BF2 is random and sometimes will crash the entire system. But no blue screen.