SH4 and Vista 64

[FritzHeinz]

So I like living on the edge. I just bought a new rig (Asus p5n32-e, core2 6600, Nvidia 8800GTX) and I decided to challenge Murphy by not only upgrading the hardware, but also installing a new OS and the 64 bit version on top of that and all the latest drivers. So no way of telling where CTD's come from because it's pretty hard to do some form of fault-isolation.

I already ran SH4v1.2 on my AthlonXP2100+, but without all the eyecandy and I must say I'm impressed with the visual quality of the game when I first saw it on my new PC.

Only problem is I went from a buggy experience without eyecandy (long loading times, some CTD's) to a buggier experience (CTD´s, BSOD´s and reboots every 15 minutes) with eyecandy. I am not blaming anyone apart from myself, because I knew the risk of upgrading to ´state of the art´. But perhaps there are some ´tweakers´ out here who know how to optimize this situation.

[spyridon]

I can only tell you, that a friend of mine, had the same problem and he finally discovered that the problem was his memory cards (he had 2 x 1 GB)
These 2 couldn't cooporate, so he remove one and placed a new one.
I don't know why, but it hadn't any problem after that.

[digitizedsoul]

*sigh* and to think I got on here to NOT do what I do all day at work :)

It's ok though,

First things first check your timing / frequency of your CPU in the BIOS. Make sure it is either useing "auto" or some type of default "low" value, not the "super" or "turbo" setting some BIOS's have.

Next do the same for your RAM. Make sure the voltage / timing settings for it are stock and not enhanced in anyway by your BIOS.

If none of these housekeeping procedures works, you are going to have to check on cooling or perhaps messed up hardware.

I'd put some $$$ on your problem being one of the above mentioned scenarios.

[FritzHeinz]

Thanks for the suggestions.

First things first check your timing / frequency of your CPU in the BIOS. Make sure it is either useing "auto" or some type of default "low" value, not the "super" or "turbo" setting some BIOS's have.

Next do the same for your RAM. Make sure the voltage / timing settings for it are stock and not enhanced in anyway by your BIOS.


I did not start overclocking yet because my PC is still very new. Should be plenty of room for OC, but I would like to have a stable system to start with first. So everything is still running like it should.

In another thread on Vista i saw the following suggestion


One thing i did was to set it to "run as administrator". Seemed to help. YMMV.


This seems to be at least part of the solution. I tested it and the game worked fine for about 2 hours.
Then it crashed similar to crashes I got used to with my old PC when it heated up too much (on a hot day it would reach 79C). I installed a new CPU cooler there and the crashes were gone.

My current CPU cooler seems to be up to the task as it keeps my CPU at 35C no matter how busy it is. I am starting to suspect the GPU, but I don't know the GPU temperature. Is there any way to read the GPU temperature?

[Patch]

Benn running 64 bit Vista now for a week with my ne system and having the same issues......CTD and freezing up..........

1.86 Intel Duo
2 gig Ram
Nvidia 7600 512mb.

32 bit was not as buggy as this!