Hi all,
I downloaded and installed far cry 2 on Friday off of Steam. I really was starting to enjoy the game when about 30 minutes into the game it froze then the screen flashed blue then it went back to the frozen game and I couldn't do anything but ctrl-alt-delete and end the process via keyboard control. Windows Vista gave me a "NVLDDMKM" failed and has recovered. If I try to play the game it will immediately give me issues upon loading up the main menu. I then would have to reinstall my nvidia driver to get it to play again for a short period of time. I have tried the new 180.42 and 43 beta drivers as well as the older 178.24. I have tried both Direct X 10 and 9, I have fiddled around with HDR and other video setting to see if it was a specific cause, but to no avail. I have been searching for the solution and tried playing in windowed mode as well as switching from windows aero to windows vista classic desktop mode as suggested by some on other forums. There was a time when Dark messiah of Might and magic came out on steam and I was having the same issues, but then it must have been addressed in a patch because I no longer have the issues with any games I play but this one. I have heard that this was an issue with Nvidia but was hoping someone might be able to help anyway...Thanks
My specs are...
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Thanks in advance
I downloaded and installed far cry 2 on Friday off of Steam. I really was starting to enjoy the game when about 30 minutes into the game it froze then the screen flashed blue then it went back to the frozen game and I couldn't do anything but ctrl-alt-delete and end the process via keyboard control. Windows Vista gave me a "NVLDDMKM" failed and has recovered. If I try to play the game it will immediately give me issues upon loading up the main menu. I then would have to reinstall my nvidia driver to get it to play again for a short period of time. I have tried the new 180.42 and 43 beta drivers as well as the older 178.24. I have tried both Direct X 10 and 9, I have fiddled around with HDR and other video setting to see if it was a specific cause, but to no avail. I have been searching for the solution and tried playing in windowed mode as well as switching from windows aero to windows vista classic desktop mode as suggested by some on other forums. There was a time when Dark messiah of Might and magic came out on steam and I was having the same issues, but then it must have been addressed in a patch because I no longer have the issues with any games I play but this one. I have heard that this was an issue with Nvidia but was hoping someone might be able to help anyway...Thanks
My specs are...
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Thanks in advance