MrAgmoore Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 These are the selected highlights from a thread: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1806403 Today, 01:29 AM This game really trashed my system. It would crash-freeze ( task manager would not work ) and the game would forcefully reboot the operating system. Over time my Win 7 ( 64 bit ) has become trashed. I could boot into safe mode and then boot into regular but now it fails to boot. I get blue screens of death and can't get a stable boot, it just spontaneously reboots mid-way. The automated repair came up but it could not find anything to repair. My Win XP mouse cursor graphics is tripping balls. It's like it is having an LSD trip. I'm going to uninstall the graphics driver in XP and see if I can get the graphics stable and then see if / how I can repair Win 7 without having to reformat that partition. What a nightmare. Today, 01:56 PM After uninstalling Renegade X. I thought that uninstalling and reinstalling the NVIDIA graphics drivers on both partitions ( win xp 32 / win 7 64 ) solved my system's strange graphical problems but I was playing Chivalry: Medieval War and my computer had a full on LSD trip last night: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sxh37tza67y0g ... aphics.JPG The teal rectangles represent my left and right arms. The black diagonal is me holding a claymore sword. The magenta is part of a cuboid, that represents the rampart of a castle. I'm not sure what the navy blue and red is. Notice the strange pieces of little squares that are missing ( this is what would happen when Renegade X would freeze ). From this picture, everything morphed multiple times into a full on psychedelic trip! I've tripped on shrooms, Salvia & LSD so it was actually really cool ( even though it ruined my online, multiplayer game ). Can tech support please tell me how to get my graphics back, without having to reformat my entire rig? Should I uninstall and reinstall Direct X on both partitions ( Win XP 32 / Win 7 64 ) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff kenz3001 Posted February 28, 2014 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted February 28, 2014 revert back to the old driver ? (make sure you use the custom installation and tick clean install) most of the time when you use "express install" it messes up your system so always do custom and tick that box a full spec list would help aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAgmoore Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 I have a concrete error message from Chivalry: Medieval War / Windows XP 32 bit: "Ran out of video memory! Exiting." So basically the bug that was affecting Renegade X seems to have broken Chivalry... great. There's something highly esoteric and weird that I didn't mention in my original post. During the Win 7 freeze + forced reboot, sometimes the text for the power-on-self-test was slightly blurry, like my computer was having a hard time focusing the text, on the monitor. I've never seen anything like it, it was surreal. I don't understand how installing a game at the OS level can affect text at the BIOS / low level? Power: Corsair Professional HX850W ATX 12V 70A 24 PIN ATX Modular Power Supply CPU: Intel Core i7 860 Quad Core Processor Lynnfield LGA1156 2.8 GHz Hyperthreading 8MB Cache Motherboard: Gigabyte P55A-UD3P ATX LGA1156 P55 DDR3 2PCI-E 2PCI GBLAN CrossFirex USB3.0 SATA3 RAM: G.Skill F3-10666CL8D-8GBRM Ripjaws PC-10666 8 GB ( 4 x 2 GB ) DDR3-1333 CL8-8-8-24 Core i5 Video: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 Fermi 700 MHz 1536MB 3696MHz GDDR5 PCI-E 2xDVI Mini-HDMI HDD: Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB SATA 10K RPM 16MB Cache 3.5 IN Hard Drive Sound: Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card PCI 32BIT EAX 5.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legitsu Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 your computer is unstable PERIOD until you find the cause of the instability nobody here can help you the game didn't cause the problem something is is failing (ram,gpu,power supply) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAgmoore Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 Well duh... I built this rig with my own two hands... in March 2010. I've been working with computers for 20 years and gaming for 30 years. Please don't talk nonsense. You can see that people are having problems if you take 5 seconds to skim over the tech support forum and the bug forum. HardOCP.com is a website for overclockers ( ie. people much smarter than yourself ). This game made my rig unstable. This game should be closed beta, period. Please don't reply to this thread. I only want to speak with intelligent people. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legitsu Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Well duh... I built this rig with my own two hands... in March 2010. I've been working with computers for 20 years and gaming for 30 years. Please don't talk nonsense. You can see that people are having problems if you take 5 seconds to skim over the tech support forum and the bug forum. HardOCP.com is a website for overclockers ( ie. people much smarter than yourself ).This game made my rig unstable. This game should be closed beta, period. Please don't reply to this thread. I only want to speak with intelligent people. Thanks. start with the following just to humor you 1. run memtest for at least 6-8h or 12 passes whatever comes first 2. run furmark and stress test your GPU by the sound of it sounds like your GPU is giving out or getting to hot finally go tell your story about how a video game broke your computer over at hardocp or techpowerup and watch them laugh at you the fact that you said "re-install directX" tells me exactly how much you don't know about computers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAgmoore Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 I did kindly ask you not to post in my thread Legitsu. Prior to installing Renegade X, I have 309 + hours in Chivalry ( which also uses the Unreal engine ). I don't need to stress test jack. If you had more than 5 minutes of experience in gaming, you would have known that in the past, specific video games accidentally wiped entire drives! If you knew anything about coding, you would know that it's trivially easy to randomly, delete critical files. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/delete-system32 I can't run stress tests on a machine that is BSODing, can I? Try and use an ounce of common sense? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_control I ran stress tests after I built the rig and the rig sits inside a $300+ Lian-Li case: PC-A77F. I suggest that you don't comment on threads. If you had ability to read, and comprehend, you would know that I have already posted this on HardOCP ( post #1, line #1 ). The last thing that an OS does is to write to the registry, that's why a proper shutdown is critical. If a game is doing stuff like blocking access to windows task manager and forcefully rebooting the OS, then the OS will get corrupted, since it didn't get a chance to write files to the registry and do cleanup etc. For the devs: I did the "clean reinstall" of the NVIDIA drivers, using the check box thing that you suggested. My rig is undergoing catastrophic system failure. I'm in the process of saving documents ( resumes ). I'm going to have to rebuild the rig from scratch. XP has the master boot record and keeps blue screening and displaying unusual graphical patterns. Some system file is damaged but I did not get a chance to write down the details nvk something sys. I started writing down the blue screen error messages: nv4_disp "Device driver got stuck in an infinite loop. The usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. STOP: 0x000000EA ( 0x88E9E698, 0x8AF1D238, 0xB8517CBC, 0x00000001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rmag37 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Alright so i've only been playing pc games/building my own rigs for like 9 years, but my opinion is that your GPU is toast. Maybe a fan went out, bad OC, bad luck, wear and tear. Who knows. But the screenshot you posted combined with your other symptoms (Blurry post) makes it sound like that's the issue. Try pulling the GPU and rebooting, if everything is peachy, it's because the offending piece of hardware is gone, and the system is defaulting to onboard graphics. Also, your know your meme link is relevant to what? LOL DELETE SYSTEM32! Is an absurdly old piece of bad advice, it's not evidence of *poorly* coded software just deleting system files.I'm sure it's happened, but it's likely not the case here. *Malicious* software could delete windows system files, but i find it hard to believe that renegadex is designed to hurt you or your computer. Beyond pulling your GPU, memtest IS a good suggustion. I'ma go ahead and endorse Legitsu's suggestion there. But really, i'd almost be willing to bet its your GPU itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrAgmoore Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 I did a fresh install of Win XP 32 bit / SP3. Everything seemed OK but I just installed Chivalry and it was tripping balls - a psychedelic trip worse than ever. Gaming is too stressful for the card: I've never killed a video card before. I think that doing just two x 12 hour overnight sessions of litecoin mining, on the NVIDIA card in December, heat damaged the components on the card. When I woke up in the morning, I saw some some minor artifacting, which cleared itself up when I turned the mining software off and rebooted the computer. When I built the rig in March 2010, the video card's high TDP was the one weak point in the system but the card was cutting edge at the time, so it was a trade off. http://tinyurl.com/lp89ubk I just got the infinite loop blue screen of death message. I pulled the side panel off and the video card fan is OK. I ordered a Samsung SSD Pro 840 512 GB. I'll have to order a video card... I bought a legit copy of Win 7, so I'll have some time to play around and see if I can get Renegade X working OK ( before Titanfall comes out on the PC ). I'm not worried about the RAM at this point. I know what RAM failure looks look. When I used to buy basic beige cases ( unfiltered ), I saw dust kill a stick of RAM. The only other dead sticks that I've seen since then are DOA. I will buy Corsair RAM for my next build ( rather than G.Skill ). Furmark can kill a brand new video card, so I'm not really interested in anything that Legitsu has to say - that's like GPU stress testing 101. I was planning on building a new rig at the end of the year, for Star Citizen. I have to go and figure out what video card to buy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rmag37 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 So long story short, several years of gaming put stress on the card, and it's finally toast. Renegade X wasn't even the straw that broke the overworked camels back, that was the overnight(unattended?) bitcoin mining from the sounds of things. Ren-X just happened to be released/installed at the wrong time. Definately good news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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