XP 32 bit nVidia onboard 6150 crashing with CFS3

[flyerlie]

I just installed CFS3 a couple of days ago and it ran fine. No crashes. I didn't fly it yesterday.
Now I found out about the 3.1 and 3.1a patches last night, and installed those tonight.
Now the intro movie plays and it goes to the selection screen. Go to 'Fly' and it crashes to BSOD stop error every time after about 5 seconds.
I tried changing graphics/display settings to many different settings, no good. Still crashing constantly with BSOD.


If anyone can lead me to some forum links for further research, thanks.
I'm not having much luck searching in the forums.


On a side note, can CFS3 be ran in Windowed mode instead of fullscreen? Maybe that would help.


On the BSOD stop message, I did see this, after all those the STOP message zeros, next line:
nv_4disp.dll -Address .../...base at .../Datestamp /...
This is the same emessage I keep seeing on these BSOD crashes.
I did find something interesting though. I went into dxdiag and checked 3D draw,etc. All tests fine. No problems found.
But under Network, it shows FS9 listed but no Combat Flight Simulator3.
Does that indicate anything?

I'm really lost now. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[Tailwind]

Hello

Try popping into control panel\administrative tools\event viewer. Go to the application tab and look for error reports at the time the BSOD happened. If there any there have a read about what it says and try googling it or post back here

Cheers

TW

[flyerlie]

Thanks for the reply Tailwind. Here is what I found there at the event viewer at the time of my last crash:

Details
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 1003
Source: System Error
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: ER_KRNLCRASH_LOG
Message: Error code %1, parameter1 %2, parameter2 %3, parameter3 %4, parameter4 %5.

Explanation
A blue screen (Stop error) was reported. The message contains details about the error. A matching event with Event ID 1001 might also appear in the event log. This matching event displays information about the specific error that occurred.


User Action
No user action is required.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Currently there are no Microsoft Knowledge Base articles available for this specific error or event message. For information about other support options you can use to find answers online, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx.

These numbers below were in the event file itself, at the bottom of the event view box, in bytes and words:
Bytes
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 38 1000008
0020: 65 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d e Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 63 30 eters c0
0030: 30 30 30 30 30 35 2c 20 000005,
0038: 62 64 30 61 30 64 38 66 bd0a0d8f
0040: 2c 20 62 35 34 66 65 61 , b54fea
0048: 64 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 d0, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000
Words
0000: 74737953 45206d65 726f7272 72452020
0010: 20726f72 65646f63 30303120 38303030
0020: 50202065 6d617261 72657465 30632073
0030: 30303030 202c3530 61306462 66386430
0040: 3562202c 61656634 202c3064 30303030
0050: 30303030

I went into support, and four others there besides myself were having the same BSOD issues.
M/S mods there suggested trying to unplug some un-neccesary devices, and see if that helps.
If not, then run chkdsk -now it starts to go over my head.
In the meantime, I'm trying Google some more, as you suggested earlier.

[Tailwind]

Hi

This can be run by going to Computer\Local disk C. Right mouse click on C drive. Go to Properties\Tools. On the error checking section click Check Now. Make sure both options are checked. It will prompt you to schedule a disk check. . Do so and reboot the system. It will run some HDD scans. This will take some time.

Once complete try and run the game again

Cheers

TW

[Daiwilletti]

Hi Flyerlie,

have you troied deleting the uisel.xml file? Depending on your OS this is found in slightly different locations. In XP, from memory its username/application data/microsoft/whatever the name of your install is.

if som ecorruption has come in, deleting this file helps, a new one will be generated.

HTH,
D

[flyerlie]

I want to thank both of you, Tailwind and Daiwilletti, for your help, being I think I got this set up right now.


Try popping into control panel\administrative tools\event viewer. Go to the application tab and look for error reports at the time the BSOD happened. If there any there have a read about what it says and try googling it or post back here


This was very good advice. It made me go look into my nVidia driver updates, which I haven't done since last October, and look at my display settings overall. My nVidia had an update due.


This can be run by going to Computer\Local disk C. Right mouse click on C drive. Go to Properties\Tools. On the error checking section click Check Now. Make sure both options are checked. It will prompt you to schedule a disk check. . Do so and reboot the system. It will run some HDD scans. This will take some time.

Once complete try and run the game again


This was very good info also, I wasn't quite sure how to handle this. It's good to know how to do this on XP.
The last time I did a chkdsk way back, it was on either a 98, 2000 or ME.


have you troied deleting the uisel.xml file? Depending on your OS this is found in slightly different locations. In XP, from memory its username/application data/microsoft/whatever the name of your install is.

if som ecorruption has come in, deleting this file helps, a new one will be generated.

I did this too. I ran one quick mission, and it didn't crash to BSOD, but it froze after ten minutes, after I started cycling the views. It let me hit 'ESC' to get out. Thank goodness.
Exited, and restarted. After entry screen, it said I had an 'unexpected error shut down cfs' pop up window and asked me if I wanted to see the results.
I 'X'ed it out, and the game ran normal after that. Twice in a row with no problems, and it hasn't crashed since doing so.
I'm hoping it was something to do with the graphics, and nothing else.

Hopefully between these things I did along with the advice given, I'm on the right track now.


Thanks again!!!

[grizzly50]

Exited, and restarted. After entry screen, it said I had an 'unexpected error shut down cfs' pop up window and asked me if I wanted to see the results.


Flyerlie, whenever you see that message, it asks if you want to see the results, and you see Yes and No buttons, choose No.

[flyerlie]

Flyerlie, whenever you see that message, it asks if you want to see the results, and you see Yes and No buttons, choose No.

I wasn't sure what to do there. Good info to know, thank you very much!