Game Freezes/Stutters and then Crashes to a Blue Screen

[Deus_Siddis]

After running Spring from anywhere between 5 and 60 seconds, it begins to freeze up for periods of about 5 to 15 seconds initially. These get much worse farely quickly until the game freezes for a about a minute or less and then crashes to a blue screen. The error screen reports that windows had to be shut down to prevent damage, because something became caught in an infinite loop. It also mentions NV4_disp as the source of problem, but even after this lead me to make sure my video card display driver was fully up to date, this problem continues to occur.

• My system specs:
  
  2 Gig Processor
  1 Gig Ram
  Nvidia Quadro4 700 XGL (64 MB)
  
  Windows XP Professional

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out with this. Spring looks like a very ambitious and quality strategy/action project. I would really like to be able to try it out without this one issue getting in the way.

[Peet]

The error screen reports that windows had to be shut down to prevent damage, because something became caught in an infinite loop. It also mentions NV4_disp as the source of problem, but even after this lead me to make sure my video card display driver was fully up to date, this problem continues to occur.

Nvidia Quadro4 700 XGL (64 MB)

Definitely a driver problem...those cards are ancient, and designed to work with 2d/CAD environments rather than 3d rendering iirc.

[AF]

If you ever get a BSOD, the worst thing you can do si not write down the stop code because you can then google the stopcode and find lots of entries telling you what it means, if its fixable, and how to fix it.

[Deus_Siddis]

Definitely a driver problem...those cards are ancient, and designed to work with 2d/CAD environments rather than 3d rendering iirc.

I recently tried installing the 93.71 driver from nvidia, but the problem still persists. The only thing higher than that which is supposed to be compatible with my card is the 94.24, which won't install on my system because it says it cannot work with my hardware (contrary to what nvidia says on their website.)

If you ever get a BSOD, the worst thing you can do si not write down the stop code because you can then google the stopcode and find lots of entries telling you what it means, if its fixable, and how to fix it.

I let it crash again to read the stop, which is " 0x000000EA ". I googled it as you advised and found this tech report from microsoft. (I'd post a link to it but this forum won't let me.)

It said to just update your driver at Nvidia, which if I am not mistaken, is what the forceware 93.71 should do. So did I need to download something else in addition or is the 94.24 perhaps necessary?

[Peet]

Perhaps try something older..if that doesn't work, you're probably SOL.