BSOD while playing Half-Life 2

[patch]

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I've tried the usual methods of getting help on this game, so far, no joy. I
thought I'd try the experts on XP & see if someone could shed some light on
the problem.


After about 2 minutes I get a blue screen on my XP system with the message
"The
problem appears to be caused by the file NV4_DISP.DLL" Folllowed by "Page
fault found in a non paged area" I'm assuming the file in question is a
video driver for my FX5900XT. I have 768 megs of Ram, since page faults are
usually a memory problem, I switched some memory around & it didn't make a
difference. I am using the latest drivers for my video card. (66.93) I have
a dual-boot system with Win98. I first installed the game on Win98, but the
audio stutter was so bad you couldn't understand what people were saying.
Installing to XP Pro cured the stutter, but now I have this damned crash.
Does anyone have a clue? Steam or Valve support has never answered any of
the 5
emails sent to them since 11-18.

(I will never again buy any game that requires Steam activation to play).

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Hi

Try uninstalling your video card via Device Manager, reboot and let Windows
re-detect the card. Then install the latest drivers from:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

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"Patch" <bob_acord@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've tried the usual methods of getting help on this game, so far, no joy.
> I
> thought I'd try the experts on XP & see if someone could shed some light
> on
> the problem.
>
>
> After about 2 minutes I get a blue screen on my XP system with the message
> "The
> problem appears to be caused by the file NV4_DISP.DLL" Folllowed by "Page
> fault found in a non paged area" I'm assuming the file in question is a
> video driver for my FX5900XT. I have 768 megs of Ram, since page faults
> are
> usually a memory problem, I switched some memory around & it didn't make a
> difference. I am using the latest drivers for my video card. (66.93) I
> have
> a dual-boot system with Win98. I first installed the game on Win98, but
> the
> audio stutter was so bad you couldn't understand what people were saying.
> Installing to XP Pro cured the stutter, but now I have this damned crash.
> Does anyone have a clue? Steam or Valve support has never answered any of
> the 5
> emails sent to them since 11-18.
>
> (I will never again buy any game that requires Steam activation to play).
>
> Thanks
>
>
>