Blue Screen of Death

[Indietro]

Just experienced a nasty system crash while playing SH5. I was in the campaign first mission messing with the merchants a bit. My crew were fireing a deck gun at one of them, the poor bastard was already in flames and smokes so I switched to external cam and wanted to fly closer to see the damages. So I'm switching to external cam and hit Shift+ up arrow (using Church's Keyboard commands 1.1) to fly faster, then suddenly BSOD appeared in an eyeblink then reboot. After system rebooted to check what the hell just happened. So I opened the Event viewer but there is little info I could chew. Here it is: Error code 1000007f, parameter1 0000000d, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000.Source: System Error; Category: (102); Event ID:1003

[nonim]

Hi...

i used to play first Silent Hunter, and almost all of them..., never to much, but i hoped this one will be great...

unfortunatly, i have the same problem as Indietro...notoriously

tried reinstalling the drivers...the same

anyone who'll find a solution pls help

Peace

Just experienced a nasty system crash while playing SH5. I was in the campaign first mission messing with the merchants a bit. My crew were fireing a deck gun at one of them, the poor bastard was already in flames and smokes so I switched to external cam and wanted to fly closer to see the damages. So I'm switching to external cam and hit Shift+ up arrow (using Church's Keyboard commands 1.1) to fly faster, then suddenly BSOD appeared in an eyeblink then reboot. After system rebooted to check what the hell just happened. So I opened the Event viewer but there is little info I could chew. Here it is: Error code 1000007f, parameter1 0000000d, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000.Source: System Error; Category: (102); Event ID:1003

[She-Wolf]

With respect ( and I am ready to stand corrected by more knowledgeable folk), this BSOD does not seem to be games related. It is a system error, and so to do with your computer rather than a faulting application. You have an Intel processor - yes? The parameters indicate this and that it is is to do with the kernel - the heart of system management.

Kernel code stays in a protected part of the memory throughout every session, and will crash the machine, resulting in a BSOD, if something happens which didn't oughta in loaded software applications or in its protected area and management.

There are certain to be folk here who could tell you much more, but what it probably comes down to for us simple folk, is a memory or page-file issue, not so likely a driver in this instance, though they often are the culprits.

If you open your computer to change memory or check the board and hardware, check also to see that no capacitors are bulging or leaking.

People who run debuggers and can analyse minidumps could maybe help you here, so perhaps a visit to a techy website such as Tektips XP Pro forum would be useful. :)

[cherbert]

Could be faulty memory or a faulty processor.

In some cases it could be your power supply is not powerful enough to cope with your video card and processor. SH5 is very demanding with its sea rendering. The fact it went as you went to external cam would highlight a peak in demand for power.

[piri_reis]

There are ways to learn the reason of the BSOD. It could be a DLL crashing the system. Look up memory dump & interpreting it w/ a debugger (as She-Wolf pointed out), here's a start:
http://support.theplanet.com/kb/operatingsystems/microsoftwindows/how-can-i-read-memory-dump-files-windows-creates-debugging

In my case, it turned out to be the dll for my sound drivers; When playing many sound effects during engagements, SH5 somehow made the drivers crash and BSOD Windows. That made me upgrade from XP to Win7. With now Microsoft drivers instead of the original vendor drivers, everything is working great no more crashes from SH5.

You might be able to pin down the problematic dll/driver/software and either get rid of it or upgrade/downgrade to a more healthy version.
I had no choices with my sound drivers so had to try upgrading the OS.

[stoneys-nutz]

STOP 0x0000007F: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP

Usual causes: Memory corruption, Hardware (memory in particular), Installing a faulty or mismatched hardware (especially memory) or a failure after installing it, Device drivers, SCSI/network/BIOS updates needed, Improperly seated cards, Incompatible storage devices, Overclocking, Virus scanner, Backup tool, Bad motherboard, Missing Service Pack

This is not game related, just coincidence that it started when you ran SH 5.
Try updating your video driver, sound driver, and chipset drivers to start with.
Also, take a look in Event Viewer and look for errors there that may help point you in the right direction.

[Schlabbo]

Experienced the same Probs, here.

Each time the escorts got Active got a BSOD. After deinstaling game, cleaning the registry, each driver redone, game reinstaled. Now no issues at all.

And it was only at SHV, BFBC2 and other worked without any probs.

[java`s revenge]

Maybe a heat problem :hmmm:

[russ555]

My solution for fixing most pc issues is a fresh install of windows :O:

[nonim]

i tried reinstalling both audio and graphics drivers.. using driver detective,

played 2 hours and haven't had any problems

thx for all replies,

Best regards

[ACSoft]

I suffer the same problem and have a situation save to test the crash (near an enemy ship, starting to fire at me after a few seconds. This save provoke a systematic crach, as soon as the ship open the fire).

I have just disabled my sound peripherical, loaded my test situation and now, the ship furiously fire at me, without SH5 to crash to reboot anymore.

Thanks guys to have isolated this one !!!

Lets hope now that I will found a driver for this sound device, which do not crash Windows anymore in these circumstances !!!

EDIT:
It was worst with latest 2.44 drivers ?!? (had blue screen already with sound setup tools) so, I came back to previous drivers. But I founded that the blue screen error 7f, do not occur if I use 2 or 4 loudspeakers config, instead of 6 (5.1) or if I use minimum hardware acceleration instead of max. Finally, I also updated my DirectX to last "feb2010" version, but this changed nothing. By the way, I use Realtek ALC882M of my motherboard Asus P5W DH deluxe, running Windows XP Pro SP3. Hope these info's might help some other victims of this problem !!!

ACS

[Schlabbo]

Mine runs on ALC888, using 2.43 driver version on XP. Others had issues, too.

[PacificWolf]

The same problem here:damn:, I have C-Media sound codecs after update and when i open hatch or fire a deck gun i have BSOD, sometimes it works fine, like im able to play two hours without crashing, but sometimes stupid map can cause the crash.:down:

Whats wrong is with UBI I pay for game, not for Silent Hunter Blue Screen 5.
They should make a patch for this.

[g8rk0k]

Audio Driver Version 5.10.0.60209
DirectX 9.0
Audio Controller HD Audio
Audio Codec ALC889

That's all the info I get from my on-board sound properties via the configuration software. I know the thing is pretty sub-par for gaming and have put up with sound difficulties from a few games for awhile but whatever it's doing to SH5 makes the game unplayable. Gun battles rapidly cause the bsod mentioned above accompanied by a loud/shrill repeating noise (hard to describe) that comes through the speakers until I hard reset. I don't have it in my budget to buy a good gaming sound card for awhile yet. Just wondering if anyone has had any success with the onboard Realtek sound chips and what drivers/configuration settings they use.