System:
Windows Vista 32-bit
Asus Striker Extreme Mobo
GF 8800GTX 768MB (Drivers: 158.18)
Creative SB XFI Extreme (latest drivers)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67Ghz
2x1024MB PC8500 RAM
Nothing over clocked, all vanilla settings.
The problem mostly occurs when playing BF2, from here is occurs frequently. I can play for about 2 or 3 maps and BF2 suddenly decides it wants to crash. The thing is, it seems to have a lot of excuses to crash. Vista reports the module faults as MEMORY.DLL, RendDX9.dll, BF2.exe... I can't understand it, it's playing perfectly well and then half way through loading a new map it simply decides to crash. I've moved the Pagefile up and down, tried numerous drivers, reinstalled the drivers, reinstalled the game... still crashes. I use the application controlled settings as well in the Control Panel.
A similar thing occurs when playing Oblivion, only this time I can play for a good 2 or 3 hours before it randomly decides to crash. At first I thought it was overheating (my CPU etc is not at a preferable temperature). But I immediately launched Oblivion after crashing from BF2 and I played flawlessly for a few hours. This is playing at 8xAA,AF and everything else cranked up. The fault module name Vista reports is Oblivion.exe...
In terms of background programs, there doesn't seem to be anything malicious going on. There are a large amount of svchost's (like 14 or 15) but they can't have anything to do with this random, totally uncalled for crashing. I don't even have Messenger running.
My 3DMark 06 score suggests there is nothing wrong.... Vista itself runs fine... I just can't understand it. It's almost as if the computer is out to drive me insane.
I did not just make a nasty scratch in my wallet for this.
Someone help me PLEASE!
Windows Vista 32-bit
Asus Striker Extreme Mobo
GF 8800GTX 768MB (Drivers: 158.18)
Creative SB XFI Extreme (latest drivers)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67Ghz
2x1024MB PC8500 RAM
Nothing over clocked, all vanilla settings.
The problem mostly occurs when playing BF2, from here is occurs frequently. I can play for about 2 or 3 maps and BF2 suddenly decides it wants to crash. The thing is, it seems to have a lot of excuses to crash. Vista reports the module faults as MEMORY.DLL, RendDX9.dll, BF2.exe... I can't understand it, it's playing perfectly well and then half way through loading a new map it simply decides to crash. I've moved the Pagefile up and down, tried numerous drivers, reinstalled the drivers, reinstalled the game... still crashes. I use the application controlled settings as well in the Control Panel.
A similar thing occurs when playing Oblivion, only this time I can play for a good 2 or 3 hours before it randomly decides to crash. At first I thought it was overheating (my CPU etc is not at a preferable temperature). But I immediately launched Oblivion after crashing from BF2 and I played flawlessly for a few hours. This is playing at 8xAA,AF and everything else cranked up. The fault module name Vista reports is Oblivion.exe...
In terms of background programs, there doesn't seem to be anything malicious going on. There are a large amount of svchost's (like 14 or 15) but they can't have anything to do with this random, totally uncalled for crashing. I don't even have Messenger running.
My 3DMark 06 score suggests there is nothing wrong.... Vista itself runs fine... I just can't understand it. It's almost as if the computer is out to drive me insane.
I did not just make a nasty scratch in my wallet for this.
Someone help me PLEASE!
