Crashing to garbled screen - hard restart reqd

[NARC]

Has anyone seen this error? I don't think it's the same rainbow thing that other people are talking about. I get it intermittantly- sometimes after 3 rounds, sometimes after 4 hours.
It requires a hard restart; I can't get out of it at all. Any help would be much appreciated.

Athlon64 3500+ (S939)
Asus A8V Deluxe
1Gb RAM
BFG GeForce 6800GT OC (81.85)
XP Pro, SP2 current on all patches

 

[NARC]

Just a bump for the Thursday lurkers.

Happened to me twice last night after I posted this.

 

[Hilded]

Yes, I get the same screen. In fact, I have almost the exact same system that you have. The crash seems to happen at random events. I even tried to run the game as a window on the desktop, but the crash happens both in windowed or full screen game play. I hope there is a patch for this game soon, as this system lock-up crash is very annoying.

BTW, did you do a defrag of your hard drive and/or try re-installing the game?

 

[NARC]

Yes, I get the same screen. In fact, I have almost the exact same system that you have. The crash seems to happen at random events. I even tried to run the game as a window on the desktop, but the crash happens both in windowed or full screen game play. I hope there is a patch for this game soon, as this system lock-up crash is very annoying.

BTW, did you do a defrag of your hard drive and/or try re-installing the game?

No, I haven't tried either of those things yet. I guess I'll give that a try just in case it does anything.

 

[SmCaudata]

I just got this. I am playing my second game. First being the tutorial. I am at about 1900 AD and it crashes every couple turns. Very frustrating. They seem to be getting worse. When I started the game it crashed after an hour or so, each time the crashes got closer together. Now I cannot even get 10 minutes out of it. Also, I was getting a crash to desktop. Then I got a blue screen, and the last crash was this garbled screen.

This is the most unstable program I have ever had on my computer. I have beta tested games that are more stable. The fact that the game is fun means that I will wait for a patch. Next firaxis game though I think I will wait till it gets a price drop. It should be stable by then.

 

[vbraun]

I had basically the same system like a week ago (my Video Card was worse) and I never got this...

 

[ainwood]

Try not overclocking. ALso, try updating motherboard chipset drivers.

 

[SmCaudata]

Try not overclocking. ALso, try updating motherboard chipset drivers.

System is not overclocked. CPU temps are under 50C when it crashes with a 38C system temp. Also, my vid card is a basically underclocked (9800Pro but an XT GPU). I have the most current motherboard drivers. The game ran for 8 hours straight on the tutorial...accidentaly forgot it was on when I left the house. It did not slow or crash.

The game has serious bugs. These are not problems with peoples systems. I run my computer for weeks straight playing many games...even if a game/application crashes (rare) it doesn't take my system with it. I truly feel like I just paid 50 dollors for the collectors edition beta test.

 

[Shakes]

System is not overclocked. CPU temps are under 50C when it crashes with a 38C system temp. Also, my vid card is a basically underclocked (9800Pro but an XT GPU). I have the most current motherboard drivers. The game ran for 8 hours straight on the tutorial...accidentaly forgot it was on when I left the house. It did not slow or crash.

The game has serious bugs. These are not problems with peoples systems. I run my computer for weeks straight playing many games...even if a game/application crashes (rare) it doesn't take my system with it. I truly feel like I just paid 50 dollors for the collectors edition beta test.

They are problems with people's systems. If the game as crashed and it's affecting your display, it's a problem with your system by definition. The game is no longer running (it's crashed!) so if your display is messed up it has to be something other than the game.

My guess is it's a video driver bug that's causing the crash and that's why the screen is garbled.

 

[ainwood]

System is not overclocked. CPU temps are under 50C when it crashes with a 38C system temp. Also, my vid card is a basically underclocked (9800Pro but an XT GPU). I have the most current motherboard drivers. The game ran for 8 hours straight on the tutorial...accidentaly forgot it was on when I left the house. It did not slow or crash.

Sorry - I was responding to the first post, where I presume the 'OC' means 'OverClocked'.

The game has serious bugs. These are not problems with peoples systems. I run my computer for weeks straight playing many games...even if a game/application crashes (rare) it doesn't take my system with it. I truly feel like I just paid 50 dollors for the collectors edition beta test.

Don't disagree, but it works OK for some people. Some have found that updating their chipset drivers have helped this particular problem.

 

[Papoli]

Change AGP of your GraKa from 8 to 4.
That´s all.
I had the same Prob.
No more now

Best whishes
Papoli

 

[NARC]

Try not overclocking. ALso, try updating motherboard chipset drivers.

The OC is out of the box. BFG sells an OC'd version of the 6800. I don't have coolbits installed so I can't back it off.

I will try updating my chipset though to see if that works. Pretty sure I did that recently though....

 

[NARC]

Just wanted to report back.

Updated Chipset (and BIOS while I was at it), defragged HD, re-installed, changed AGP to 4x.

Nada. Still crashing at inconsistent intervals.

 

[meglamaniac]

They are problems with people's systems. If the game as crashed and it's affecting your display, it's a problem with your system by definition. The game is no longer running (it's crashed!) so if your display is messed up it has to be something other than the game.

My guess is it's a video driver bug that's causing the crash and that's why the screen is garbled.

Sorry to pick an argument, but this is rubbish.
The crash is CAUSED by the game. If it was an issue with the drivers, it would happen with other games as well. From the number of complaints here, we know there are several serious issues with how the game is handling the graphics.

I myself am experiencing the "globe view runs at about 2 frames per second" issue, as well as multiple Blue Screen Of Death lockups caused by the graphics system (the quoted originator is the nvidia driver).
Please note that the nvidia driver being quoted as the "cause" does not automatically mean it was responsible for the crash. It simply means the driver was carrying out an operation which triggered the crash - more than likely an operation that the GAME requested.

As I have never, and I do mean never, had any crashes with Doom 3 or Halflife 2 which are both incredibly graphically intensive and work the graphics card much harder, it is fairly clear the game is the problem here.


Athlon64 3000+
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
1GB RAM
Geforce 6600GT 128MB
XP Pro SP2, all patches applied