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XP32 + CoH + Vent = 0xE7

Doublehelix

By Doublehelix,
Posted on: 2009-05-21 08:59 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

BSOD Only occurring with CoH and Vent. Generally while I am transmitting, it will BSOD to a 0xE7 stop error.

No other game causes this.

If I use vent on the laptop instead, I can play CoH for hours.

If I'm not in CoH, I can sit in Vent for hours.

All graphics and sound drivers are up to date, and were rechecked before this post.

The sound card is a Dell OEM X-Fi ExtremeMusic, and the appropriate Dell OEM driver is applied (the Dell OEM cards will NOT work with manufacturer drivers).

The Ventrilo transmit key is the Apps key, if that helps.


Has this happened to anyone else? Everything I've read is that this is a VERY rare stop error.

 

Posted

Never had any problems using Vent & CoH with XP 32-bit, so it must be system-specific. Can you toss in any HijackThis or DXDiag reports from your computer? Maybe one of the regulars around here can help you out. You can find instructions for HijackThis here.

 

Posted

Going to try reassigning the hotkey first, but I'll post up HijackThis tonight.

I've a sneaking suspicion it's going to be the Dell OEM card / drivers vrs a "real" X-Fi.

 

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Here is a quote from a post that may be relevant to your situation..... thanks to Miuramir for the post.

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We just had a series of weird network glitches at work that may have some relevance to the problems some folks are having. New systems were seemingly fine, except they would have erratic stuttering in the audio, or weird domain authentication errors and other network oddities.

On a new Dell OptiPlex 960 I've confirmed that disabling the "C State" setting in the BIOS resolves the problem; I've also set the sleep mode to S1 from S3. Apparently the new greener aggressive micro-sleep settings are not handled properly and cause glitches with real-time devices such as sound and network cards. Anecdotal reports are that this is also an issue on a Dell OptiPlex 760.

It's not yet clear whether this is a problem with Dell's BIOS, the motherboard, the CPU implementation, or what. However, anyone looking to do performance gaming probably wants these off anyway. The symptoms certainly *looked* like a number of the trouble reports I've seen here, with mysterious network micro-hangs.

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