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short version: reinstalled XP and now 2142 crashes to desktop after a couple minutes of playing
long version: been playing 2142 for 18 months with occasional crashes like everyone else (usually system locks w/ looping sound). last week i got a virus or something (explorer.exe crashing and restarting every few seconds). my xp install was kind of crusty so i decided on a fresh xp install. after the reinstall, 2142 gave me a BSOD. tried lots of stuff, eventually gave up and reinstalled xp again, but this time i didn't install anything except the latest video drivers and lan drivers and then 2142. same thing, BSOD.
here's stuff i've tried:
reinstall xp (SP2)
installed every windows update
installed SP3
made sure i have all the latest drivers
tried older stable versions of the drivers
no internal parts are dusty, or dirty, or broken, or overheating, or not plugged in
tried swapping ram sticks between slots (1 to 3 and vice versa)
updated BIOS
reinstalled 2142
moved the pci x-fi sound card to a different pci slot
manually updated punkbuster
playing without any sound cards (unplugged the pci card and disabled the mobo sound card)
the error has kind of changed as well: at first it was BSOD's with the occasional CTD, now it seems like it's mostly CTD's with the occasional BSOD. i even got the "memory.dll: thread #### is deallocating main thread memory" a couple times.
the BSOD STOPs have been 0x0A and 0xD1 (IRQL_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS_THAN and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS_THAN)
when it CTD's, i don't get the looping sound, it just drops me instantly back to the xp desktop.
i tried windows debugger and they pointed to usbuhci.sys - but that file is fine (microsoft USB driver). i haven't run an MD5 checksum on it but it has the same size/date as the dllcache version.
i've submitted this to EA. they suggested i update C++ runtime, try setting processor affinity to use 1 CPU, turn off sound acceleration, cleaning out temp files, updating directX and updating .NET framework. none of those helped so far.
the only thing i can think of that is different between the new XP installs and the old install is i upgraded the motherboard BIOS from 2301 to 2704 (motherboard is asus p5w dh deluxe). but i can't figure out how to downgrade back to 2301 - the asus bios flash utility doesn't allow downgrades.
2142 is the only game i play so this really sucks. can anyone help me? if you guys have ANY ideas please let me know.
long version: been playing 2142 for 18 months with occasional crashes like everyone else (usually system locks w/ looping sound). last week i got a virus or something (explorer.exe crashing and restarting every few seconds). my xp install was kind of crusty so i decided on a fresh xp install. after the reinstall, 2142 gave me a BSOD. tried lots of stuff, eventually gave up and reinstalled xp again, but this time i didn't install anything except the latest video drivers and lan drivers and then 2142. same thing, BSOD.
here's stuff i've tried:
reinstall xp (SP2)
installed every windows update
installed SP3
made sure i have all the latest drivers
tried older stable versions of the drivers
no internal parts are dusty, or dirty, or broken, or overheating, or not plugged in
tried swapping ram sticks between slots (1 to 3 and vice versa)
updated BIOS
reinstalled 2142
moved the pci x-fi sound card to a different pci slot
manually updated punkbuster
playing without any sound cards (unplugged the pci card and disabled the mobo sound card)
the error has kind of changed as well: at first it was BSOD's with the occasional CTD, now it seems like it's mostly CTD's with the occasional BSOD. i even got the "memory.dll: thread #### is deallocating main thread memory" a couple times.
the BSOD STOPs have been 0x0A and 0xD1 (IRQL_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS_THAN and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS_THAN)
when it CTD's, i don't get the looping sound, it just drops me instantly back to the xp desktop.
i tried windows debugger and they pointed to usbuhci.sys - but that file is fine (microsoft USB driver). i haven't run an MD5 checksum on it but it has the same size/date as the dllcache version.
i've submitted this to EA. they suggested i update C++ runtime, try setting processor affinity to use 1 CPU, turn off sound acceleration, cleaning out temp files, updating directX and updating .NET framework. none of those helped so far.
the only thing i can think of that is different between the new XP installs and the old install is i upgraded the motherboard BIOS from 2301 to 2704 (motherboard is asus p5w dh deluxe). but i can't figure out how to downgrade back to 2301 - the asus bios flash utility doesn't allow downgrades.
2142 is the only game i play so this really sucks. can anyone help me? if you guys have ANY ideas please let me know.
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