Freezing Game with Vista

[Antmano]

I also had the same problem. I have Vista64.

For me the solution was to lower my clocks in my 8800GT. I lowered core(-50MHz) and shader clocks(-100MHz). Good thing is that they dont affect at all to my performance in IL2. Only memory clocks seems to affect and I was able to overclock the memory 40MHz.

Also I installed this hotfix.

Vista64
http://thehotfixshare.net/board/inde...&showfile=8295

Vista32
http://thehotfixshare.net/board/inde...howtopic=11094

It could have helped too.

S Antmano

[KG26_Alpha]

http://www.nvlddmkm.com/

[Thunderbolt56]

Thanks for reassuring me in my decision to leap-frog the entire Vista genre.

COME ON WINDOWS7! Should be here by September/October. I'll change OS's then.

[JG27CaptStubing]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Thanks for reassuring me in my decision to leap-frog the entire Vista genre.

COME ON WINDOWS7! Should be here by September/October. I'll change OS's then.

I'm with you on this one... And I will be going 64bit because only NOW is it making sense.

[Feuerfalke]

The problem does occur with faulty or not fully accessable RAM. I tested it with 2x2GB RAM and didn't have any problem at all, then replaced them by identical RAMs and got the error all the time. I got a new pair, now it works like a charm, even with 8GB.


@ JG27CaptStubing & Thunderbolt56

It's fascinating how many people fall for the new marketing, that Win7 is just soooooo much better than the Vista it is 100% based upon.


Well, anyway, since you read the links posted so throuroughly, you must have noticed, that the "nvlddmkm"-Error was confirmed in Win7, too, and was already posted not to be fixed for the initial release, as it is not finally cleared out, who is responsible for the error.

[Bobby109]

Not for me...

I just ran MEMtest86 3.4, no errors. 1 pass took, almost 2 hrs.

[Feuerfalke]

Confirmed.

It seems they found the bug and corrected it. The bug is gone with SP2 RC1 for Vista. Played for more than an hour, now, without a crash or lockup.

[Wolf_Rider]

What has worked for a number of people, at least using Vista 32bit, is to open MSCONFIG, then open the BOOT TAB and click the ADVANCED button.
In this there are two check boxes at the top... one for BOOT PROCESSOR NUMBER, this is for the number of cores. Tick the box and select the number of cores which are present in the system.
The other checkbox is for the amount of RAM present in the system. Tick this box also and dial in the total amount of RAM present (this is for 4GB users as well), or the maximum the selector window will allow.

REBOOT and run

DETECT HAL checkbox should be ticked automatically after reboot.

[nearmiss]

I removed the nVidia drivers I downloaded and rebooted and let Vista load it's own drivers. Drivers that came with one of the Microsoft updates.

Anyway, no mo problemo

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

It's fascinating how many people fall for the new marketing, that Win7 is just soooooo much better than the Vista it is 100% based upon.

Have you tested Windows 7 beta yourself? Yes it is based on the vista kernel but it is much better. I've been testing it for months now and it is superior to Vista, and I like Vista so it's no bash against it but win7 really is much better.


P.S. I've been wondering about all these people getting the NVK errors and why I never saw it, then it came out that SP2 solved it and I said "Ohhh, well I've been running SP2 beta for months, no wonder I never saw the error", lol.