Played thru The Witcher on vista without constant crashes?

[lordant]

As I pointed out in another thread, I too have noticed the number of times “Creative X-Fi Xtreme” comes up in the specs of people who have problems. My own board is the “Audio” board not the “Gamer” board. Looking at Negatah’s system, the sound board is the only thing we have in common.How many others who are having problems have the Creative SB X-Fi board? Let’s hear from you.

 

[reionpremente]

My game was really running nicely till I got to chapter 3 and the Trade quarter when the crashes started again. Bit disappointing as I had hoped crashes would be a thing of the past with the new version. Does make me wonder if this is a Vista problem or related to my pc a Dell XPS420?

What a coincidence. That's where my game crashes too. I have a more than powerful enough machine to handle the game, and a very good graphics card, so it's either Vista being Vista or its a problem with the game. I don't think its your machine, because unless your machine is slower than a Quad Core, or a Dual Core, it shouldn't be having any trouble running the game. How fast is your machine? My machine is an Intel Core 2 Quad 4 @ 2.43 Ghz with 3 gig RAM with an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS Graphics Card. Oh. and I recently updated to 1.4 EE, and have gotten up to Vista Service Pack 3.

 

[username_2082349]

Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit operating system)Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Processor w/ HyperTransport and Dual Core TechnologyMotherboard: NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MotherboardSystem Drive: Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - 2TB (2 x 1TB) SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 2 x 32MB CacheGraphics Processor: 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 UltraSound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 AudioIf anyone can spot a mistake on the combination of hardware it would solve alot of problems, thanks for the idea. I'll edit my 1st post to suggest posting the specs.

I went through a nightmere with Vista and the Creative X fi. I will relate some of it. I installed Vista32 back in May of 2007 but my system was crashing all the time. I tracked it down to the Creative sound card and spent much time on their forums. They are a crappy company who don't support their products well. The people who had the MOST problems all had some of your system specs. Vista+Nvidia Motherboard and possibly 4GB of memory.I got so many creative related blue screens I went back to XP and didn't re-install Vista for 6 months when I installed Vista 64 after they (creative) finally released ok drivers.What I would do if I were you is try a few things to see if its not the crappy soundcard drivers they give us. I would download the latest drivers from Creative. Then I would remove the old ones completely. Get rid of them 100% meaning not only in the control panel but reboot after you uninstall them into safe mode and run DRIVER CLEANER. This removes all entries that the uninstall does not remove. Then boot into windows and re-install the drivers and any of the creative apps you want. Its a PAIN but many times needed with their crappy drivers. I might also try the onboard sound if I were you if the clean install of the new creative drivers does not work. If the motherboard sound produces no crashes then its surely related to that crappy creative company product.

 

[negatah]

I went through a nightmere with Vista and the Creative X fi. I will relate some of it. I installed Vista32 back in May of 2007 but my system was crashing all the time. I tracked it down to the Creative sound card and spent much time on their forums. They are a crappy company who don't support their products well. The people who had the MOST problems all had some of your system specs. Vista+Nvidia Motherboard and possibly 4GB of memory.I got so many creative related blue screens I went back to XP and didn't re-install Vista for 6 months when I installed Vista 64 after they (creative) finally released ok drivers.What I would do if I were you is try a few things to see if its not the crappy soundcard drivers they give us. I would download the latest drivers from Creative. Then I would remove the old ones completely. Get rid of them 100% meaning not only in the control panel but reboot after you uninstall them into safe mode and run DRIVER CLEANER. This removes all entries that the uninstall does not remove. Then boot into windows and re-install the drivers and any of the creative apps you want. Its a PAIN but many times needed with their crappy drivers. I might also try the onboard sound if I were you if the clean install of the new creative drivers does not work. If the motherboard sound produces no crashes then its surely related to that crappy creative company product.

Thanks for the informative post. Even tho it sounds like alot of the problems happend pre service pack 1 I get occasional blue screens even now. I'll look into it when I get home in a few hrs.

 

[dyrestraits]

My game was really running nicely till I got to chapter 3 and the Trade quarter when the crashes started again. Bit disappointing as I had hoped crashes would be a thing of the past with the new version. Does make me wonder if this is a Vista problem or related to my pc a Dell XPS420?

What a coincidence. That's where my game crashes too. I have a more than powerful enough machine to handle the game, and a very good graphics card, so it's either Vista being Vista or its a problem with the game. I don't think its your machine, because unless your machine is slower than a Quad Core, or a Dual Core, it shouldn't be having any trouble running the game. How fast is your machine? My machine is an Intel Core 2 Quad 4 @ 2.43 Ghz with 3 gig RAM with an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS Graphics Card. Oh. and I recently updated to 1.4 EE, and have gotten up to Vista Service Pack 3.

Please direct me to where I can get the Vista Service Pack 3.

 

[sambuka]

Had no end of problems, with The Witcher crashing / freezing on 1.3 patch until I installed the latest beta drivers from Nvidia (177.92). These drivers seem to be the ones we have been waiting for from Nvidia for some time, many people on the internet complaining of crashing freezing problems with all games.I am now running v.1.4 with no problems, but I can't say if that is due to the new EE patch as I installed the new drivers prior to installing 1.4 EEIf you are having gaming problems. and have an 8000 series Nvidia card go get these drivers, you won't be sorry.

 

[rhbuck]

Had real problems with crashes on Vistauntil I read somewhere on the forum to try running in window mode - works perfectly now

 

[fam]

I have Vista 32 bit. I was having problems until I turned off the UAC and then, according to instructions somewhere here, installed a shortcut on the desktop direct to the launcher AND when I begin the game, I right click on the shortcut and then Run as Administrator. Haven't had any crashes since then.Good luck,FAM

 

[username_2081956]

I agree. Vista is awesome once you tame the tiger by turning off UAC and making any gameing folder accessable to "everyone".now back to TWEE.After a number of tests under Vista32 Ultimate, I descovered that TWEE (and ONLY TWEE, no other game did this) caused my GPU fan to turn off. this is with any version of the GPU driver.I play the game under XP on the same system and it works a treat, the fan stays on , its still a fantastic game God bless duel boot!

 

[Licaon_Kter]

After a number of tests under Vista32 Ultimate, I descovered that TWEE (and ONLY TWEE, no other game did this) caused my GPU fan to turn off. this is with any version of the GPU driver.

i presume the original version worked ok?did you install SP1 and different video drivers in the mean time?you can force fan speeds by using RivaTuner: http://www.vaguetech.com/index.php?pageid=rt207

 

[username_2081956]

After a number of tests under Vista32 Ultimate, I descovered that TWEE (and ONLY TWEE, no other game did this) caused my GPU fan to turn off. this is with any version of the GPU driver.

i presume the original version worked ok?did you install SP1 and different video drivers in the mean time?you can force fan speeds by using RivaTuner: http://www.vaguetech.com/index.php?pageid=rt207

Unpatched worked. and patch 1.3 worked.SP1 killed the PC.It was nothing to do with forcing the fanspeed. the game patched too 1.2 or TWEE - phisicly turned the fans OFF.(I can tweek the fanspeed using CCC)