BSOD in Mount & Blade, in the Tournament Arena

[Shigawire]

Playing the wonderful "Mount & Blade" (independent pc game), I just got a Blue Screen Of Death, forcing me to reboot the computer.

Savedump:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000008e (0xc0000005, 0xbf9f4f0f, 0xb10a9fe4, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini052707-01.dmp.

Referenced to NV4DISP.DLL (display driver)

So, is there a problem between M&B 0.808 and the latest Nvidia drivers?
Because no other games have done this.. I've tried Supreme Commander, Medieval 2 Total War.. etc. No problems what so ever.

Attached the dumpfile. I haven't tried M&B since this. I have posted about this on their forum also. Just thought I'd check with you guys' thoughts on what the minidump says. I am thinking a problem with the latest nvidia driver and M&B 0.808. But I dunno..

 

[peterdiva]

The process in that dump is explorer.exe. Do a search on your system to see that you have only one instance of it, in C:\Windows.

You also have three files on your system that show no hits on Google or Yahoo. Do a search on your system to see what they belong to.

bae26000 bae27580 s116cm s116cm.sys Tue Apr 03 23:59:29 2007 (461279E1)
bae36000 bae37580 s116wh s116wh.sys Tue Apr 03 23:53:19 2007 (4612786F)
bae9d000 bae9e000 s116cr s116cr.sys Tue Apr 03 23:50:51 2007 (461277DB)

 

[Shigawire]

s116cm.sys - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\
Sony Ericsson Device 116 USB WMC OBEX Interface

s116wh.sys - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\
Sony Ericsson Device 116 USB Ethernet Emulation (WDM class registry for Windows 2000)

s116cr.sys - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\
Sony Ericsson Device 116 USB Ethernet Emulation

All for my W880i pc drivers...

 

[peterdiva]

Post some more dump files if it continues to crash.

 

[Shigawire]

Ok another.. Same game (no other game dumps)

 

[peterdiva]

Roll back your video card drivers to the previous version to see if that makes a difference. That one's crashed with Bugcheck EA.

0x000000EA: THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
A device driver problem has caused the system to pause indefinitely (hang). Typically, this is caused by a display driver waiting for the video hardware to enter an idle state. This might indicate a hardware problem with the video adapter, or a faulty video driver

 

[Shigawire]

The previous minidump was with Nvidia 97.94

This second one was with Nvidia 150.xx

So far this only occured in Mount & Blade - All other games work fine.. maybe it's something to do with my CPU or something..

Just played 3 hours straight of Supreme Commander, with 4 teams, 1000 unit limit per faction, all graphics maxed out. Plus the game supports dualview. Ran perfectly smooth without crashing..temperatures were fine.

 

[Shigawire]

Ok it still persists.

Now I see that this same thing happens to another game: Red Orchestra

After playing for a while, the game just locks up.. and the graphics get all garbled or glitchy.

Only Mount & Blade and Red Orchestra so far.

BF2 has these graphical glitches:

Constantly flickering black bush-shadows. It disappears when I change the Terrain to Low.

But that is a confirmed problem with the driver so not relevant to the freeze/lockup issue -
Nvidia:
• Battlefield 2: Intermittent random z fighting problems on the terrain.

If there is this problem with the driver, I wonder how many other unknown problems there could be with it?
IE perhaps the freeze-lockup issue is driver-related?

 

[Shigawire]

Ok. I just discovered the solution. I had to manually change the affinity to only 1 core. Perhaps it's due to my processor being "cutting edge" - being a Intel Extreme QX6700 (Quad)..

Mount & Blade is now rock solid. Will test Red Orchestra.

I found the solution here:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=38847&pid=213350&mode=threaded&show=&st=&#entry213350

 

[Shigawire]

Red Orchestra still freezes up after about 5 minutes.
But Mount & Blade is still solid..