Crashing and burning

[modifierLE]

Hi there, im new to the forum and EA doesnt wanna help me.

I can see by searching how many people have the "Crashing to Desktop" symptom, and I also have that problem. The other threads i looked at gave some answers and i tried them, nothing worked. Im here wondering if anyone has a definitive answer to this problem.

My game will play perfect for about 20-30 minutes but then all of a sudden either the sound gets scambled and the Blue screen of death appeared saying file KMIXER.SYS is the culprit. If i dont get a BSOD i get thrown back to the desktop, it happens without warning.

I have played hours and hours of BF2 and yet my rank hasnt changed and none of my info is there, because i havent been able to complete a single round scince i got the game.

My settings in BF2 are:

Video settings are all at Medium, with Anti-Aliasing @ 2x. (1024x728 @ 60hz)

And the sound settings are medium with EAX



My computer specs are:
AMD Athlon XP 2800 Barton Over clocked to 2.2GHz
MSI KT84AV Mobo running at 333MHz FSB
1 GB PNY PC3200 DDR
PNY Verto GeForce FX 5900XT 128MB
52x Lite on drive.
Windows XP SP2
Creative Sound Blaster Auduigy Gamer


So does anyone have a definitive answer on how to fix this problem?

Thanks

[whofriggincares]

Re: Crashing and burning

Update your chipset drivers. It's an on-board audio driver problem.

[modifierLE]

Re: Crashing and burning

Ive updated them as much as they can be, there are no more updates. And i dont use an on-board sound card, i have a PCI one.

I ended up Disabling the Sound card all together removing it from my PC, and the game still crashes.....

EA is not helping much, they keep giving me obvious answers, and i have tried them all....im running out of Ideas, and i wont have money to build a new computer till may/june.

thanks for helping.

[bloodbrood]

Re: Crashing and burning

I also have this problem. Anyone wanna help please?

[NoSoup4You]

Re: Crashing and burning

You disabled which sound card? It isn't the PCI sound card, its the onboard one. You need to disable it in your BIOs.

[whofriggincares]

Re: Crashing and burning

Google KMIXER.SYS and you will see that it's an on-board sound problem. There are fixes for it. Google is your friend.

[modifierLE]

Re: Crashing and burning

***UPDATE***

well its not KMIXER.SYS......because i have gotten 4 more B.S.O.D with Special Forces.....and each say something different each time, last one was Nvidia Driver.


What i did, was set Anti Aliasing and Aniscopric (think thats how its spelt) both to 2x....then turned off the "Enable Write Combing" and the game doesnt crash for a long time....i can now play up to 3x longer than before without a crash.....but then just when i dont expect it BOOM all over.

I think im getting closer, so i decided tor revert back to a Nvidia 7.0 driver bit that didnt fix it......i still dont know....

[modifierLE]

Re: Crashing and burning

bump


anyone got anymore ideas? I just bumped it back up cause i posted this at 3AM and i dont think anyone saw it.

[RA-1972]

Re: Crashing and burning

i had the same problem and the cause of mine was my ram changed me ram and now perfect, it kept on saying device problem . try and run a bench test .

[Lunasyche]

Re: Crashing and burning

if its your memory check it with your system Log;

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49062

[modifierLE]

****update*****

I think i may have fixed it!!!

Although there is not an option in the bios to switch from single channel to Dual, i lowered the RAM's Speed to 333MHz. (I have 400MHz Ram in a 333 Mobo).

I also turned on something called AGP Fast Write.

Last nite for the first time ever, i completed 3 rounds in a row, with no crashing!!! I was able to leave the game at my own will!!!!

Im hoping i fixed it.