L4D = Blue Screen

[Leon]

I've had to many issues with L4D and since the new updates from this year i've been having blue screens.

 

Processor Information:

Vendor: AuthenticAMD

Speed: 3015 Mhz

2 logical processors

2 physical processors

HyperThreading: Unsupported

FCMOV: Supported

SSE2: Supported

 

Windows Version:

Windows XP (32 bit)

NTFS: Supported

 

Video Card:

Driver: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

DirectX Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll

Driver Version: 6.14.11.8250

DirectX Driver Version: 6.14.11.8250

Driver Date: 27 Mar 2009

Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel

Monitor Refresh Rate: 75 Hz

DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VendorID: 0x10de

DeviceID: 0x421

Number of Monitors: 1

Number of Logical Video Cards: 1

No SLI or Crossfire Detected

Primary Display Resolution: 1024 x 768

Desktop Resolution: 1024 x 768

Primary Display Size: 14.96" x 11.22" (18.70" diag)

38.0cm x 28.5cm (47.5cm diag)

Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x

Primary VRAM: 512 MB

Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

 

Memory:

RAM: 2047 Mb

 

Miscellaneous:

UI Language: English

Microphone: Not set

Media Type: DVD

Total Hard Disk Space Available: 131061 Mb

Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 108352 Mb

OS Install Date: Apr 22 2009

Installed Packages:

 

 

helpp mee

[Jaffa]

In what situations have you been getting it?

[Leon]

In what situations have you been getting it?

 

Well depends because i'd usually get that Blue screen once a month when playing games, but then again happened 2x today

[Red]

Sounds like a vid card/mobo issue.

 

I had something similar with my laptop when playing source based games, had to get a new vid card sent to me (also nvidia).

 

A couple people needed new motherboards.

 

Other than that not sure.

[Psyche]

try to update your drivers

[Wrathek]

update your graphics drivers, but for this specific case, you need to go into the L4D settings as well and disable multi-core rendering. When they threaded this game they didn't test it well or something, and so me, and several other people I know as well as hundreds across the internet have to disable it.

 

(If it doesn't work you may have to do what my friend does which is more drastic, which is to start L4D, and then minimize the game, and ctrl alt del, right click left4dead.exe -> set affinity -> uncheck CPU 1)

[Leon]

Ok i disabled it plus set the graphics to Medium since they were on high.

[Red]

Try turning off AA

[Coffee Crisp]

I don't think it's related to the actual game. You did say it blue screen a couple times a month right? Well ironic because the 8400 and 8500 series of the GeForce line up are known to have special "bugs". I remember when I owned one, my computer would lock up in the sight of fire in the source engine. But when I loaded up a backup 8600 GT the fire was no problem.

 

*EDIT* There's probably a driver update to fix that.

[Leon]

I don't think it's related to the actual game. You did say it blue screen a couple times a month right? Well ironic because the 8400 and 8500 series of the GeForce line up are known to have special "bugs". I remember when I owned one, my computer would lock up in the sight of fire in the source engine. But when I loaded up a backup 8600 GT the fire was no problem.

 

*EDIT* There's probably a driver update to fix that.

 

rly? plz tell me :[