Windows 7 service pack 1 auto-installer bug?
By
Quixotik,
Posted on: 2011-05-18 16:13 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
You could uninstall the Service Pack instead of doing a System Restore, then uninstall the drivers, run driver sweeper, install SP1 manually and reinstall the video drivers.
Go to the Control Panel. Go to Programs and Features. On the left side of the window, click on View Installed Updates. Scroll down to the section headed Microsoft Windows. Scroll down the list and look for the Service Pack entry. Highlight it, click Uninstall at the top of the list and follow the prompts.
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I rolled back the Nvidia driver to 260.99 and this fixed the instant crashing in Port Oaks and other maps I hope, though I haven't been to all of them yet.
My error message was that I had a corrupted texture, something like, "portoaks_blackmarket_cab texture is corrupt."
The bad driver for me was the 270.61, on a geforce 250 GTS.
Quixotik
"I did not say this. I am not here." -Guild Navigator
In Windows Vista I could run CoH with all ultra settings maxxed on a GeForce 250 GTS. Apparently with drivers ver 196.xx, which were too old according to game message.
Recently I upgraded to Windows 7 and the current Nvidia driver 270.61. Now the game crashes almost instantly in Port Oaks and the new Rogues maps. I am planning to rollback to the 196.xx or maybe 256.xx and see if the crashes stop. However, I ran into a discussion in a different game where players were experiencing crashes with new video card drivers and someone said there is a bug with Windows 7 when it auto-updates to Service-Pak 1 and the way they fixed their frequent crashes was to restore prior to the install of SP1, uninstall nvidia drivers with driver sweeper and then download and install the full SP1 update manually. Then reinstall the Nvidia driver. No more crashes.
Now I can't do this, that restore point is gone and i am not even sure it has anything to do with CoH suddenly crashing. I am just posting this here as an FYI, just in case it is related to some CoH crashes as well.
Quixotik
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