Freezing Game with Vista

[Skoshi Tiger]

Hi,

This is not just an Nvidia thing ATI have their own version of the error.

Over at UbiZoo a few of us were going through the same kind of grief. Here is a link to the discussion

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...127#3141073127

There were a number of possible solutions. I did them all and have not had the problem since.


I still stand by the librarian solution. Cheers! and all the Best!

Originally Posted by Rango

I have still lot of trouble when running IL-2 1946 4.08m or 4.09mB1 with Vista OS. After a randomly changing period of Time (10 mins up to 2 hours) the game freezes and the following message is displayed:

'Display Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has recovered'

I googled for nvlddmkm and got more than 40.000 hits !!!!!

Okay, if you have the same problem with nvidia drivers you can read this

NVIDIA Statement on Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) Errors

to get more information.

But most important: Launch a bug report at the Nvidia Quality Assurance site using this form

Nvidia Windows Vista Graphics Driver Bug Report

Only if many users launch a bug report Nvidia will react and release a solution for IL-2 with future drivers. We should use the power of our community to get a solution.

Many thanks for your support

Rango

[Antmano]

I also had the same problem. I have Vista64.

For me the solution was to lower my clocks in my 8800GT. I lowered core(-50MHz) and shader clocks(-100MHz). Good thing is that they dont affect at all to my performance in IL2. Only memory clocks seems to affect and I was able to overclock the memory 40MHz.

Also I installed this hotfix.

Vista64
http://thehotfixshare.net/board/inde...&showfile=8295

Vista32
http://thehotfixshare.net/board/inde...howtopic=11094

It could have helped too.

S Antmano

[KG26_Alpha]

http://www.nvlddmkm.com/

[Thunderbolt56]

Thanks for reassuring me in my decision to leap-frog the entire Vista genre.

COME ON WINDOWS7! Should be here by September/October. I'll change OS's then.

[JG27CaptStubing]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Thanks for reassuring me in my decision to leap-frog the entire Vista genre.

COME ON WINDOWS7! Should be here by September/October. I'll change OS's then.

I'm with you on this one... And I will be going 64bit because only NOW is it making sense.

[Feuerfalke]

The problem does occur with faulty or not fully accessable RAM. I tested it with 2x2GB RAM and didn't have any problem at all, then replaced them by identical RAMs and got the error all the time. I got a new pair, now it works like a charm, even with 8GB.


@ JG27CaptStubing & Thunderbolt56

It's fascinating how many people fall for the new marketing, that Win7 is just soooooo much better than the Vista it is 100% based upon.


Well, anyway, since you read the links posted so throuroughly, you must have noticed, that the "nvlddmkm"-Error was confirmed in Win7, too, and was already posted not to be fixed for the initial release, as it is not finally cleared out, who is responsible for the error.

[Bobby109]

Not for me...

I just ran MEMtest86 3.4, no errors. 1 pass took, almost 2 hrs.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

It's fascinating how many people fall for the new marketing, that Win7 is just soooooo much better than the Vista it is 100% based upon.

Have you tested Windows 7 beta yourself? Yes it is based on the vista kernel but it is much better. I've been testing it for months now and it is superior to Vista, and I like Vista so it's no bash against it but win7 really is much better.


P.S. I've been wondering about all these people getting the NVK errors and why I never saw it, then it came out that SP2 solved it and I said "Ohhh, well I've been running SP2 beta for months, no wonder I never saw the error", lol.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Thanks for reassuring me in my decision to leap-frog the entire Vista genre.

COME ON WINDOWS7! Should be here by September/October. I'll change OS's then.

Your not alone out there jumping past Me 2 XP32-SP3 is the best gaming platform out there now... SP1 sure made Vista better, but it's still not good enough. They had a lot of good thoughts locking things down and restricting direct access to hardware etc - too bad they did not get it to work. The Windows 7 beta is what they really wanted Vista to be. Let's hope they get all the pieces together for the release...

I've been running a dual boot with XP32 and Vista 64 Ultimate since the beta days. I think that I've been booting in XP 97% of the time...

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by mazex

Your not alone out there jumping past Me 2 XP32-SP3 is the best gaming platform out there now... SP1 sure made Vista better, but it's still not good enough. They had a lot of good thoughts locking things down and restricting direct access to hardware etc - too bad they did not get it to work. The Windows 7 beta is what they really wanted Vista to be. Let's hope they get all the pieces together for the release...

I've been running a dual boot with XP32 and Vista 64 Ultimate since the beta days. I think that I've been booting in XP 97% of the time...

Excellent example!

Comparing a complete business-version against the basic stripped for download-beta....

Why did you buy Ultimate? Do you need shadow-copy for protection against data loss? Do you need Fax-Services? Do you need network rules for shared work on documents? Do you need automated maintenance routines? Do you need Aero? What for? Did you at least disable these things for your benchmarking?

Just a hint when buying Win7: Don't get the Ultimate-Version again. Ultimate does not mean ultimate solution for gaming. It means complete package for business operations, which is quite the opposite.