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Hey folks, wonder if anyone has a light to shed on this problem I'm having.

I bought my current pc from a uk-based builder/supplier over a year ago to mainly play WoW on, and to that end all has been good. Recently I've been trying different games and my machine is not taking to them quite as well as I'd hope.

At the moment I can reliably play WoW, the L4Ds, Dead Island and other assorted goodness with no problems, but trrying to get D&D Daggerdale or Batman Arkham Asylum has my machine freezing, BSODing or doing a weird 'power is obviously on but the picture just died and the monitor goes into standby' thing. Great fun.

I've spent the weekend trying different drivers, uninstalling, wiping everything Nvidia-ish off my machine and reinstalling from scratch to no avail, changed the slot the Gfx card sits in (no difference) and done all the housekeeping and testing I've seen advised on various websites - nothing works. A few minutes after starting Daggerdale, or a few minutes after starting Batman AA and it just dies.

I know from looking that this isn't an uncommon - or even a new - problem; I was wondering if anyone here had come across and if they had managed to fix it?

Cheers

Stevie


Bah - Machine details:
Asus P7H57D-V EVO mobo
Intel i5 cpu
Nvidia GTS250 graphics card
4GB Ram
Win 7 x64bit
ViewSonic VP2365wb monitor

Try getting the latest patches for D&D and BAA. You may also need a new GPU. Yours sounds like it may be dying.

Hi Nog, ta for the input - I'm having a problem thinking the card is dying when it's a very specific set of circumstances that cause it to fail - I can basically make it do it whenever I want by running either of the games mentioned, but nothing else I do at all has the same effect. If it was a dying card, I'd expect it to be more random.

Did more fannying around last night though, so here's more info (hopefully) if anyone can make sense of it.

Ran a program (BlueScreenViewer) that highlighted 3 files that are causing the problem; I intentionally made the pc fail a number of times and the error report was always the same - BCC code 116, and the Blue Screen message blames the nvlddmkm.sys file, but the BSViewer also shows problems with dxgkrnl.sys and dxgmms1.sys.

Anyone have an idea?:

Bah - too good to be true - had this sorted by adjusting the memory clock of the graphics card, but it hasn't lasted.

Giving up on this one - it really does seem to be something that needs pro (ie - the actual developers) attention rather than me hacking around. Have went for the extreme option - running both games, successfully and for extended periods on an old XP machine with an ATI 3850 graphics card. Seems the future of gaming is to go back the way.