Mr. Die Easy Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Dear mates, I have a small but anoying problem with CMBO: When I move through smoke in view level 3, my screen sometimes freeze, and when I use ctrl+alt+del to get to the desktop there is an error message saying "Unhandled exception c0000005 at adress 3f800000". The problem only happens at view level 3, and only with high quality smoke. I am able to replicate this error whenever I want, by loading a scenario with smoke, shift to view level 3, and move back and forth 5-10 times through the smoke. This will always provoke the smoke freeze. Apart from this strange smoke freeze, CMBO is solid as a rock - I have never had any other types of crashes. My set up (with all the latest BIOS/drivers): ECS K7S6A board Athlon XP 2100+ 1024 MB ram GeForce4 Ti4400 SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Windows XP Home Initially I thought this was a NVidia driver problem, but I can provoke the error message with 30.82 as well as 29.42. Does anybody have an idea how to solve this small but quite anoying problem? Best regards Mr. Die Easy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 I haven't seen this problem myself, so I really don't have a specific solution for you. The initial part of the address range you have given for the error we usually associate with DirectX, but that can mean the video driver too. I suggest uninstalling your current video driver and using a 'VGA Save' or SVGA driver. After rebooting then install your NVidia driver. I'm not sure what BIOS version you have or if it even makes a difference, but the K7S6A is at 1.0d. What you may really need is the updated chipset driver for the SiS 745 (agp110.exe). I've seen some slightly newer SiS AGP drivers, but I can't remember where to get them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Die Easy Posted September 9, 2002 Author Share Posted September 9, 2002 Dear Schrullenhaft, Thank you very much for your reply. I am currently using the 1.0d BIOS and the 1.10 AGP drivers from SIS. Maybe I should try to reinstall the XP default AGP drivers? Best regards Mr. Die Easy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Possibly, I'm not sure what sort of AGP support XP has for the newer SiS chipsets. But it may be worth experimentation. You may also want to experiment with CMOS/BIOS settings (AGP related, Fast Writes, AGP Master 1 WS Read/Write, AGP 2X/4X, etc.). You may also want to experiment with your FSAA settings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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