This was an unexpected experience

[mapuc]

To begin with I like to play none-violent simulations game

One of my "Game I really want to get me hand on" is Eurotrucker or similar. I have however decided that I need a steering wheel first.
From earlier experience I know it's hard to drive a car/formula 1 car, only using the keyboard.

There was also an another game I wanted and here the use of keyboard should not be so difficult.

It's Farming simulator.

I had a look at it when it was Farming simulator 2015. My computer I had during those years had a weak graphic card.

Now I have a newer computer with a stronger graphic card (AMD Radeon R5)

Some weeks ago I bought the game.

Farming simulation Platinum Edition
For an barging price.

Installed the game as told.

Doubled clicked on the icon

-Enter keycode.

Toke some while before I found the two code.

Again I double clicked on the Icon…….black screen for some second…….then a blurred blue screen. I could read …. something "a failure…. "
restarting your computer.

After restart I tried again double clicked on the icon and the game started.

I played for about 30 minutes.

Ok next time I will not start the game through the pop-up message which come right after I have inserted the disc.

I will right click on the icon and use Run as....

Again I got a blue screen of death.

Hmm Ok next time I will insert the disc, restart and then use Run as

Did this some days ago……..Blue screen of death again.

well this was a little unexpected experience.
Have put the game away and hope I can use it in the future when I have purchased a new and better computer.

I have before bought games where my graphic card wasn't strong enough, but never have I had blue screen of death.

Markus

[mapuc]

Some additional information

I can play the game, with a few lags or freezing for some second.

If I can live with blue screen of death before playing and 1-2 after I have played.

Markus

[Reece]

Hi Markus, I am running an old AMD Radeon HD 6850 card on my XP and can play ETS2 full graphics with a Logitech G27 wheel and the game runs smoothly, and graphics set to max. You should have no problems, if you're running Windows 10 that might be the cause. :hmmm:

[mapuc]

That could very well be the truth.

In the beginning I had no problems with my computer...not before I got the new WIN 10 Creator-thing installed.

Since then I have had several of these blue screen of death.

It is first time I experienced it while trying to start a game and after have played it.

Markus

[mapuc]

I guess I put some none related information in my writing.

The main issue in this thread was that I get Blue screen of death before and after I have played Farming Simulator Platinum Edition 2017.

With following message
Thread stuck in device driver.

Markus

[mapuc]

Here's some more information for those who may be interested.

The first day or two after I have had those Blue Screen of Death my computer shut it self down at start-up.

It does this only one time, when clicking on the on/off button the computer works fine.

Markus

[Skybird]

Sounds like either a Windows 10 issue or a driver issue for a hardware component.


When it is W10, well, good luck then. I have a W10 machine since November last years, and in that time have seen more blue screens than in all my years with XP and W7 together. Its a - expensive - mess. This month patches are a terrible mess, too, all of them are porked, which seems to be the new norm with Microsoft these days. Many, if not all of their patches for MS software are porked as well.



Sorry, I cannot help, mapuc, I have given up on W10 myself.



Do other games/programs run fine? Is it W10 on your side? I do not know Radeon gfx cards. But R5 sounds like the label for a laptop/notebook card?

[mapuc]

Well ain't that the truth

Almost every time I got an update from Microsoft I suffer about 2-3 Blue Screen of Death each day for about 1-3 days after and automatic shut-down at start-up the computer.

I have been thinking and remembered someone told me game installed in x86 program files is not good and it is there my game have been installed into.

Going to uninstall the game - restart the computer
Create an folder in C. I going to name it Farming.

Do a fresh install of the game and change it to where it shall be installed-
C: Farming.
Hope this will help.

Markus

[mapuc]

SUCCESS

It helped to change to where it have to be installed.

Was a little nervous when I clicked on the icon…. The loading scene came directly and even after I had installed the important update to the game.

Played for some minutes.

Only negative is there is lag/game freeze I guess it have to do with my graphic and my cpu.

My graphic is by the way not the R5 but the R7 m360

Edit:
It was not my computer who was the problem, it was Program Files(x86) who was the problem
End of Edit
Markus

[Skybird]

Ah yes, the folder issue is a known issue since long.


On your patching aftermath problems, you can delay patches by 30/35 days, also define your internet connction as a metered connection, this will likely save you from getting W10 1803 or higher enforced on you for another 365 days.


Every six weeks or so just reverse the metered-setting to get the old patches of the last 5 weeks, which by then hopefully have been patched a bit themselves. Do so one or two days before every second Tuesday of the Month, to avoid getting the newest,dirtiest patch garbage that Microsoft releases every second Tuesday.


Note: the curren status with their latest patches is especially grim, last time it was that bad was in January. Avoid, avoid, avoid.


The old advice to always be up to date with oatches, is no longer valid, it is exactly the other way around these days: stay unpatched as long as you can.



Best advice: run Windows 10 only on a machine that never accesses the internet, never.