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[Gnume]

Had a major issue yesterday and thought I would share just in case it happens to someone else ... and perhaps they can save some time resolving the issue.

I had just saved a Mech in MechLab and had clicked the Back button when the game locked up and a error box popped up talking about a D3D error (forgot to screenshot the dialog box or write down the wall of text it contained). Basically it said that the graphics driver had been corrupted.

Game closed itself, so thought I would just restart the game. Just as the Connecting screen came up, the game crashed again, same error. So I thought, hmmm, restart the computer.

Did that and tried starting the game again ... just as it gets to Connecting ... BAM ... BSOD! Now I realize there is something seriously wrong.

Restart Computer ... it won't restart! Just gets to a blank screen and monitor goes into sleep mode.

Restart and hit the button to force it to bring up the Windows Boot Menu and get it to boot into Safe Mode w/networking

Get to the desktop just fine. Remove graphics driver and reinstall it having it perform a Clean Install.

Still will not boot normally, just freezes.

Restart to Windows Boot Menu again, have to choose Last Known Good Configuration to get it to boot normally.

Again re-install graphics drivers w/clean install. Working fine now. But man, took me about an hour and a half to work through (mostly because I forgot to go to the Advanced Boot Menu and choose Last Known Good Config) this and it is very frustrating that the game would cause such a corruption of my system files!

I was using Nvidia Drivers for the GeForce 500 Series, the 350.2 version of the driver I do believe

Specs are:

• CPU/MB Combo: ASUS P8P67 Pro B3 Intel P67 Motherboard and Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40 GHz Quad-Core Unlocked Bundle
  
• Power Supply: Cooler Master RS800-80GAD3-US Silent Pro Gold 800W Power Supply - ATX, Modular, 800 Watt, SLI, CrossFire X, 80+ Gold Certified, 120mm Ultra Silent Fan
  
• Video Card: Zotac ZT-50201-10P GeForce GTX 570 Video Card - 1280MB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, Dual DVI, Mini HDMI, SLI, DirectX 11
  
• Memory: Corsair CMT8GX3M2A1866C9 Dominator GT Desktop Memory Kit - 8GB (2x 4GB), PC3-14900, DDR3-1866MHz, 9-10-9-27 CAS Latency, 240-pin DIMM, 1.5V, Intel XMP Ready
  
• Operating System: Win 7 64-bit

[9erRed]

Greetings,

Check for the Video card overheating and causing a crash, I used to have similar problems with the drivers for the vid failing and causing a 'reload' of the drivers. (black screen till they reloaded)
- I set up a profile for the game that increases the fan speeds when the game was detected, stopped the reload of the drivers.

If the card(s) were overheated they will not want to re initialize till they are at a working temperature.

It's also related to 'not the best optimized MWO code' in the mechlab and game. The MechLab is seriously over tasking the CPU and needs to 'handoff' some of it's functions to the GPU. (but that's another story.)

9erRed