Blue Screen Of Death

Whenever I play FFXI sometimes it'll just crash my whole computer with a blue screen of death it doesn't happen with FFXIV, Forsaken World, and normal videos and things. When it crashes tells me to update my video card and bios everything on my computer is updated so... what can i do?

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Just out of curiosity, how often does this happen? Are you positive that nothing else will cause it? If it only happens once in awhile, and you spend more time on FFXI than anything else, there's a good chance it will always appear to happen only on FFXI.

Have you tried reinstalling your video card drivers, or upgrading/downgrading them? If you don't have the most up to date drivers, get them, if you have the most up to date drivers, roll back a couple of releases (instead of 12.3 go with like 11.9 for example).

The proper way to reinstall drivers, or roll back is to uninstall your current drivers, restart your computer, install drivers, restart again. I can't tell you how many times people have ignored this step, said the fix didn't work, then did this and had everything work.

=P

but to answer your question, does it look like this?

Oh also, Google around to see if your video card has a FFXI hotfix. Sometimes rather than wait for the next driver release to include fixes, they will put out specialized patches for specific card models and game combos.

EXACTLY like that

Well I play ffxi and ffxiv about the same it happens about once every day on ffxi sometimes twice

it's also happened on my laptop once too and it never does it on my husband's or brother's computers

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It's not out of the ordinary to get the occasional BSoD, but once or twice a day and there's a problem. Try the above things.

okies thank you i will try it all

I hated it when I was on XP and I'd see that screen =(

I think I saw that on Vista too with FFXI but I don't remember what I did to fix it =/

I've had it a couple of times on 7, sometimes I get carried away with how much I'm doing at once because I have an i7 and my computer just screams "Okay, *** this!".

Yeah, I'd always play FFXI with AIM (older but newer version), MSN, Firefox, and loads of ***running lol i think that's why it always appeared (cuz when I decided not to log on MSN and AIM, it was fine)

I've never had the BSOD on 7.

Had it quite a few times on XP.

And too many times on older windows like 98 and 95.

There's a great program that'll tell you exactly what went wrong during the crash. I'm at work atm, posting from my cell, and dont remember its name. But try to google bluescreen fixer, i think thats atleast close enough. If not, i'll post the name when i get home from work.

BlueScreen View was the name of it.

^ I did on Vista lots too, but that was an electrical issue with a USB port, not the OS.

there's particular meanings to their error codes, I don't remember such things but since you ccan obviously get online still look up the code, or better yet post the blue screen here if you can(picture duh).

The information already provided is enough to be reasonably sure this is a graphics problem, and since it only happens on FFXI, that means it's likely a compatibility issue (whereas if it crashed on all games/videos, the problem could just as equally be a faulty card, or a general problem with the card/drivers).

Either way I'm willing to bet what I suggested will fix it.

If you look at the error code you'll know exactly what the problem is, no guessing involved.

Don't make assumptions...

Yes you are correct, although I would like to add, that there is a difference between using reason and logic, and guessing..

I have windows 7 home edition @,@

That's true but I did what it said "Update video card and bios" and still get it

Odds are its a graphics driver. I would need to see the exat BSOD you're getting though as the one listed above couldn't be it if you said this is a desktop.(You also said on your laptop, which would make sense with the example BSOD listed above.)

It'll tell you what driver/file is causing the exception. The gv3.sys BSOD above wouldn't have any bearing on a desktop at all. If you crash again and are able to tell which driver is causing this, can give more information.

Yeah I'm having issues right now with the video hanging once every few days, it's more of a nuisance and from the research I've done it's with the nvidia 9 series and earlier for the most part. I'll be watching a video and the screen will freeze but I can hear audio.

I used the WinDbg tool to open up the live kernel viewer .dmp file and found the driver that was causing problems was the nvidia driver file... my most recent attempt was installing the driver provided for my card by windows update, which did update the driver to a newer version which is actually listed as a beta driver on the nvidia site... so maybe they finally fixed this issue.

It's almost time for a new card anyway, and I haven't seen this same issue posted about with the 400 or 500 series cards.

To OP... if you figure out it is your driver for sure, just keep playing around with it and hopefully you'll figure out which driver version will work correctly. Use that bluescreen view to get an exact idea as to what is going down.

Yeah, driver crashes on older games in Windows 7, specifically on the 9x nVidia cards, are common every few days. Guess the good part about windows 7 is it won't crash everything with a BSOD, but rather just restart the driver.

Mine doesn't just start the driver <_< it prepares a crash dump, then restarts.

It only happens when I put my PC under some serious strain.. I just Alt+tab on the game I'm currently playing, sometimes I'll have up to a game running the back ground, firefox, winamp, a video converter and a video editor (Adobe Premier for example) exporting video..

Under that load my PC tends to just say *** that and shuts off.

It's the i7's fault, it seems to handle it all fine, and I don't actually think about the load I'm putting on it.