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ladic   01-29-2007 at 03:54:35 PM

Something weird is happing to my PC.

So after a couple of years of not playing Battlefield 1942, I decided to reinstall and play for old times sake.

Weird thing is, Sometimes right after a loeading a multiplayer map, I get a Blue Screen with no Text and the the system reboots.
Sometimes I can play for a while and then reboots.

At first I thought maybe Video Card Drivers? so I downgraded to drivers from January 2006 and I still get the same problem.

Then I thought maybe overheating of the system? But I can run the Counter Strike Source which is more graphics intensive without a hitch.

then I thought maybe bad installation, so I reinstalled the game, and still same thing happened.


This is my system:

Ati radeon x800pro 256mb
athlon xp2500+
wd 250gb sata hd
windows xp



so anyone know why this could be? and only happaning to this game?

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eRazor   01-29-2007 at 04:37:31 PM
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Windows XP SP2 with all critical updates?

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ladic   01-29-2007 at 04:44:15 PM
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aye, I have sp2 installed and all of it updates.

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eRazor   01-29-2007 at 04:52:40 PM
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Update your sound drivers to the latest possible and unplug any USB devices and test that. A number of friends have had this problem and it's turned out to be sound related, or a USB device.

Beyond that, I can't say.

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ladic   01-29-2007 at 05:05:45 PM
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ok, to install latest sound drivers, do I need to uninstall the old ones first? or just install over it?

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eRazor   01-29-2007 at 05:19:56 PM
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That depends on the sound card. If there _is_ an uninstall (some cards don't have one), I would do so before installing the new ones.

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ladic   01-29-2007 at 08:09:06 PM
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switched to latest drivers and no dice, same problem.

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eRazor   01-29-2007 at 08:28:11 PM
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And you have nothing USB plugged in?

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eRazor   01-29-2007 at 09:01:18 PM
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That should go away if you reinstall Creative Player.

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ladic   01-29-2007 at 09:05:51 PM
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so is that the problem? cause I noticed as soon as I crash and reboot, and go the event view a new one of those errors appears.


so how do I get rid of the creative player?

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ladic   01-29-2007 at 09:09:27 PM
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BTW i dont even remember installing creative player

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eRazor   01-29-2007 at 10:12:25 PM
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If you have a Creative Labs sound card, the install generally sneaks Creative Player onto your machine.

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ladic   01-29-2007 at 10:51:26 PM
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so how do i go about fixing this problem?

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ladic   01-30-2007 at 12:48:43 AM
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well weird thing, played single player for about 15 minutes no problem, switch to online game and get the blue screen and reboot.

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eRazor   01-30-2007 at 06:38:14 PM
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well weird thing, played single player for about 15 minutes no problem, switch to online game and get the blue screen and reboot.



It's a known issue. There's lots on the internet about it if you'd care to Google for it.

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ladic   01-30-2007 at 07:21:43 PM
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i have googled like crazy and cant find an answer. :cry:

i miss bf1942

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ladic   01-30-2007 at 08:17:04 PM
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here is a new shot of a screenshot I took after playing again and got the reboot (I was able to play for about 15 minutes):

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9956/eventfinderzf4.jpg

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ladic   01-31-2007 at 03:58:43 PM
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ok, its not y firewall either, cause I installed it on my laptop and had no problems, altough my laptop sucks, so its basically unplayables since I get awful framerates.

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rivalneighbour   01-31-2007 at 04:29:54 PM
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Disable Automatically Restart.
System Properties - Advanced - [Startup and Recovery]Settings

Remove the checkmark from "Automatically Restart" in the System Failure section.

Did you apply any Battlefield1942 game patches? maybe in the game options you should set the monitor refresh rate to 60 or enable vsync.

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ladic   01-31-2007 at 05:53:11 PM
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i did apply patches, and have uninstalled and re-installed the game twice.

also, i have tried with all refresh rates that are possible in the game.

haven tried the vsync thing, were do I do that?

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ladic   01-31-2007 at 06:01:56 PM
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do you think it cam somehow still be the soundcard? im thinking of removing it and try with onboard audio.

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ladic   01-31-2007 at 10:22:46 PM
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I removed and uninstalled the sound card, and left it with nvidia onboard audio, and still no dice.

Then removed the video drivers again and installed the ones that came on the cd and still the same thing...

im all out of ideas...

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