CTD oblivion

Ganner · Post by **Ganner** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:46 am

hi i have just baught elderscrolls IV... on friday 24th march
well i ahave had 5 ctd since i began to play what looks to be an absorbing game...

The ctd normally happens when i enter a new area, it did also happend when i dissmounted the horse.
The screen just gose black... then if it does not freeze alltogeather, the game will tell me that "oblivion has encounterd a problem and needs to close. It then asks, if i want to send an error report to windows microsoft.. This has happpend to many times for me?

My Pc Spec is

Athlon 64dual core 3800.
Mother board. Ausus A8N SLI Premium.
CPU card 2xGiGabtye GT 6600.128.
Ram 2Gig kinston Memory.
windows XP Pro.
Latest Driver nvidia 84,25
i dont no what i should do to stop the ctd please get back to me asap i no you's are very busy but this is just not funny anymore.

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:04 pm

As far as I know CTDs cannot be prevented at this point in time. I think you get them due to your AMD dual core. I know some people got rid of trouble by disabling Cool 'N' Quiet in BIOS but ....

EDIT: Ok I looked around a bit and well, it could also be the g.card as well. People did a lot of things to tweak performance for both your CPU and card, but I am not sure how that would help with the CTDs.

Some questions -
do you have an HP printer?
can you find the file named mpeg2dmx.ax on your comp?
do you have Star Force? (device manager, click View --->show hidden devices (something like that, it says show hidden), look down the list for a section called "Non Plug n Play devices". Expand that section (click the +). If you see between 1 and 3 devices in there named "Star Force", you do.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:52 pm

1. Install AMD drivers at http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec ... 18,00.html

2. Install Microsoft fix at http://exphose.com/upfiles/1/WindowsXP- ... 86-ENU.exe

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:47 pm

This thread is for dealing with Ganner's crashes. Got some of your own? Start a new thread. Post deleted.

Masa · Post by **Masa** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:58 pm

Ok I understand.
But could someone inform me what CTD is?

Ganner · Post by **Ganner** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:52 am

ganners update

Error caused by a video device driver

Thank you for sending an error report to Microsoft.

Error report summary

Error type Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code information)
Solution available? Yes
What does this error mean? You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused the Windows operating system to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer.
Cause A video adapter device driver
Computer symptoms A message appears on a blue screen with error code information:

STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
- or -
STOP: 0x100000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M

Action for you to take

We have analyzed your error report and there are two solutions for this problem for you to choose between.
+ Solution 1: Install the most current driver for your video card

* Go to the Microsoft Update website to see if there are any updated drivers for your video card. A driver is software that enables hardware or devices (such as a printer, mouse, or keyboard) to work with your computer. Every device needs a driver in order for it to work. If there are any drivers listed, you should install them.
* If there are no updated drivers at Microsoft Update, and you know the manufacturer of the video card, contact the card manufacturer's product support service for assistance.
* If there are no updated drivers at Microsoft Update, you don't know the name of the manufacturer of the video card, and you need more help diagnosing and resolving this problem, contact your computer manufacturer's product support service.

+ Solution 2: Manually decrease Hardware Acceleration for your video adapter

This procedure prevents the display driver from programming the hardware incorrectly, but you may lose some display functionality and performance. Although you can increase the hardware acceleration settings higher than None to regain functionality and performance, these settings increase the chance that the issue will occur again. For maximum stability, leave hardware acceleration turned off.

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Display.
2. Click the Settings tab, and then click Advanced.
3. Click the Troubleshoot tab, move the Hardware Acceleration slider to None, and then clear the Enable Write Combining check box.
4. Click OK, and then click OK.
Note: This procedure prevents the display driver from programming the hardware incorrectly, but you may lose some display functionality and performance. Although you can increase the hardware acceleration settings higher than None to regain functionality and performance, these settings increase the chance that the issue will occur again. For maximum stability, leave hardware acceleration off.

Article ID : 11
Last Review : February 28, 2006
Revision : 1.0

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* Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078)

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this is the page that pops up when i reprt the problem

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response.as ... 1b6&SID=11

Ganner · Post by **Ganner** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:58 am

[QUOTE=Rookierookie]1. Install AMD drivers at http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec ... 18,00.html

2. Install Microsoft fix at http://exphose.com/upfiles/1/WindowsXP- ... 86-ENU.exe[/QUOTE]

what is the xp hot fix before i install?

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:59 am

Masa - CTD - crash to desktop

Gunner - well I do know that most of the time those are bogus solutions but did you even try? Oh and it does seem to be an NVidia problem ... hmmm ... I'll see what I can find, if anything.

Ganner · Post by **Ganner** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:04 am

[QUOTE=Rookierookie]1. Install AMD drivers at http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec ... 18,00.html

2. Install Microsoft fix at http://exphose.com/upfiles/1/WindowsXP- ... 86-ENU.exe[/QUOTE]

i have looked in my add and remove prgrams/ and i have the Athlon64 processor driver size 0.12mb if i click on it, it says 2last used on 24/6/05
.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:05 am

[QUOTE=Ashen]Masa - CTD - crash to desktop

Gunner - well I do know that most of the time those are bogus solutions but did you even try? Oh and it does seem to be an NVidia problem ... hmmm ... I'll see what I can find, if anything.[/QUOTE]
They are real solutions for the Athlon 64 X2 bug.

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:10 am

[QUOTE=Rookierookie]They are real solutions for the Athlon 64 X2 bug.[/QUOTE]

I wasn't refering to your post, but to the Microsoft error report. Those are usually useless.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:38 am

Oh, I see.

While the solutions look like they are useless (although the reinstall drivers solution should be tried), the "thread stuck in driver" is pretty interesting...

issac_brock · Post by **issac_brock** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:27 pm

Exact same CTD issue with 8800 GTS

I have the same issue, sometimes I can play for hours, sometimes minutes. A reboot sometimes helps before I play sometimes not. I have the latest drivers for the video card and WinXp updated. My pc is 6 mos old, handbuilt by myself. Intel Core 2 2.13 Ghz, 2gb ram, Nvidia 8800GTS video card, 500 gb sata wd hdd and so on. Not high end but not low end either.

I don't know what to try next. I run the games at recommended settings however Oblivion could not detect the 8800 gts so I chose high, should be able to handle it with this card.

Anyone have thoughts?

maazr · Post by **maazr** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:42 pm

the same has happened to me...i jst deleted a few files on my computer and fortunately...it WORKS PERFECTLY!

however,if your files are all very dear to you you might just get another hardisk(one of the cheap ones should work beutifuly)

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:20 pm

This isn't a catchall thread for everybody who wants to complain simultaneously about their crashes.

If you've got one, and you can't find a siimilar instance mentioned in our forum by using our search function, start up a new thread and descrbie exactly what has happened on your machine.