Silent Hunter 3 Blue Screen Crash

[timman2112]

Originally Posted by siege00

Will take a look tomorrow. I'm downloading a MS tool to open the files and it's going to take a little while. The tool to open the file is within the Windows Driver Toolkit, so it's most likely going to be some sort of driver issue. Hopefully it'll shed some light on it, but too early to tell. I still think it's a call that the software has made that isn't fully supported anymore. I don't know if it's the Intel chipset as Adrians69 inquired, or the GTX.

Just out of curiosity at this point, are you using Nvidia drivers for your card or the OEM drivers that your laptop manufacturer published? What about the Intel drivers?

I'm using the GeForce drivers since the Nvidia card does all the heavy lifting for all my games. It's funny because I've had trouble with older Ubisoft games before (like Splinter Cell) where it wasn't playing nicely with the Nvidia card and would blue screen every once in a while.

[timman2112]

So I just tried an experiment. I disabled the nvidia card and just used the Intel HD Graphics 4000 and this time the game just crashed instead of blue screen so that's a slightly different result lol.

I was still using that 1920x1080 res mod also.

[siege00]

Originally Posted by timman2112

I'm using the GeForce drivers since the Nvidia card does all the heavy lifting for all my games. It's funny because I've had trouble with older Ubisoft games before (like Splinter Cell) where it wasn't playing nicely with the Nvidia card and would blue screen every once in a while.

I wasn't able to find any new information. The dump boiled down to an NTOSKrnl error, which is pretty generic. Have you tried running it in compatibility mode for something like WinXP SP2?

Other things that I read about in researching it stated possible issues with no longer native resolutions, and pushing too many frames per second, but I'm using an Nvidia card as well with no issues. An article I read also talked about using a utility to slow down / pin the frame rates at 30 or 32. You could try using Nvidia Inspector to try to lock the game's frame rates down and see if that helps.

All of this is now experimentation. lol. Wanna give those things a shot and post back?

Edit: There's also a setting in Nvidia control panel under "Adjust desktop size and position". In that section there is a "Scaling" option. You could also try adjusting the scaling mode and whether the scaling is performed on the GPU or the display. Again, don't know if this will help but it's worth a try. For reference, my desktop is set for Aspect Ration and GPU scaling. You could also try adjusting refresh rates.

[timman2112]

Originally Posted by siege00

I wasn't able to find any new information. The dump boiled down to an NTOSKrnl error, which is pretty generic. Have you tried running it in compatibility mode for something like WinXP SP2?

Other things that I read about in researching it stated possible issues with no longer native resolutions, and pushing too many frames per second, but I'm using an Nvidia card as well with no issues. An article I read also talked about using a utility to slow down / pin the frame rates at 30 or 32. You could try using Nvidia Inspector to try to lock the game's frame rates down and see if that helps.

All of this is now experimentation. lol. Wanna give those things a shot and post back?

Edit: There's also a setting in Nvidia control panel under "Adjust desktop size and position". In that section there is a "Scaling" option. You could also try adjusting the scaling mode and whether the scaling is performed on the GPU or the display. Again, don't know if this will help but it's worth a try. For reference, my desktop is set for Aspect Ration and GPU scaling. You could also try adjusting refresh rates.

I may have fixed the problem. I downloaded that Nvidia Inspector you suggested and forced my graphics card to play SH3 at 30 fps, I've been playing for about 2 hours and I haven't crashed or got a bluescreen since. I'm also still using the 1920x1080 mod so I'm not sure if that is effecting anything.

[siege00]

That's awesome!!! Glad that there's a shot you're past it. Keep me posted.

[timman2112]

Originally Posted by siege00

That's awesome!!! Glad that there's a shot you're past it. Keep me posted.

Been playing the game for a couple hours, no problem!

Thanks a lot for all of your help siege

[siege00]

Originally Posted by timman2112

Been playing the game for a couple hours, no problem!

Thanks a lot for all of your help siege

My pleasure. Glad it worked out! Enjoy your hunts.

[timman2112]

Hey sorry I know I'm reviving this thread again but I ran into more blue screen crashes.

So I tried playing SH3 again only this time I downloaded GWX 3.0. The game no longer blue screens during patrols (as it was before). However, now it bluescreens whenever I'm in the main menus.

Can anybody give me some help again? I have the dump files on hand. I would really appreciate it because I would love to play this game without any problems.

Thanks