severe crashing problems with vista

[kisada]

posted this originally in windower forums, posting here too in case i can find more help.

First, the problem:

Basically since i'd installed vista (brand new format, newly built computer), i'd been having intermittent crashing problems. The game would just close right to desktop and windows would prompt me asking if i wanted to look for help or close the game. This happened mostly in dynamis for a while, and then at one point in dynamis-sandoria, i crashed and everytime i logged back in i'd crash 5 seconds after (about 6-7 times in a row before i gave up). Now i'm afraid it's a threat to happen no matter where i go.

so, my specs are:


Processor: E6300, intel core 2 duo, OC'd from 1.8ghz to 2.62.
RAM: 2 gigs Gskill F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK
Card: nvidia 7800 GTX OC version

I'm using vista ultimate, 32 bit and xtreme-g mobileforce vista 101.46 drivers from tweaksrus.com as any others gives me the nvidia bard song/firaga lag problem. The rest of the drivers for sound etc. are just the ones that normally update with vista.

In addition, I have UAC disabled as well as secure desktop disabled.

For a little further reference as well, the error logs from event viewer look like this:


Faulting application pol.exe, version 1.18.0.0, time stamp 0x45b0171b, faulting module ShimEng.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549bdb7, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0000446d, process id 0x2410, application start time 0x01c7af7d93f63ef0.

Faulting application pol.exe, version 1.18.0.0, time stamp 0x45b0171b, faulting module pol.exe, version 1.18.0.0, time stamp 0x45b0171b, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0000a788, process id 0x1db4, application start time 0x01c7af7c87a8f170.

Faulting application pol.exe, version 1.18.0.0, time stamp 0x45b0171b, faulting module FFXiMain.dll, version 3.0.0.0, time stamp 0x4668cef2, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00169030, process id 0x119c, application start time 0x01c7af38a1963b55.

or

Faulting application pol.exe, version 1.18.0.0, time stamp 0x45b0171b, faulting module nvd3dum.dll, version 7.15.11.141, time stamp 0x45e82e47, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00158406, process id 0x1370, application start time 0x01c7af3cf868f595.

with the last one being by far the most common one.

i'd appreciate any help, cause if i can't find anything that works i'll probably just try XP, and i'd prefer not to have to redo everything. i could handle this error every now and then but it seems like now it's constantly ruining the things that i do.

thanks in advance.

[Snowknight26]

Well, the last error is caused by your video drivers, so I'd suggest you stick with the latest from nVidia and not the tweaked ones. I'm not sure what pattern nVidia follows, but AMD releases drivers every month it seems, and I thought they did too.

[Zigma]

tried clocking your cpu back to factory settings?

[Robert]

gb2winxp

I had vista ultimate for all of a month and crashed every 15 mins, sometimes more frequently, tried every set of drivers (even dating back to the release of vista), similar setup to you, 4gb corsair ddr2 e6600 oced to 2.8 7950GT(then) 8800GTX(now) and asus striker extreme mobo..same intermittent crashing only in ffxi, but diminished performance in every other game (150 fps on cs source @vista, 200+ @xp pro)..sorry if its not what you wanted to hear but vista =

[kisada]

yeah, i'm guessing really it's just vista.

btw, how was your performance on ff going back to xp?

[Cesaria]

I know a few people from my LS have complained of similar with Vista, and I get it on my laptop (which came with Vista pre-installed and is still a pretty clean install as I haven't had it long enough to install my usual load of crap on it).

[Robert]

on vista i had like 15 fps just idling in whitegate in a corner, fighting fafnir it was below 10, meriting my fps would drop <5 during WS, it was just horrible, I kept waiting for a fix to come out for the crashing and the shitty performance and just said fuck it and went back to xp, now I'm camping fafnir in a 50ish person aery on 3360x2100 bg rez and 1680x1050 foreground and have 29 fps standing with max settings and full shadows in the middle

[Snowknight26]

(150 fps on cs source @vista, 200+ @xp pro)..

Because that matters.

[retice]

Video Drivers are the latest Drivers released today, July 11th, but it happens with all the vista drivers.
Processor- Pentium4 3.0ghz
RAM-512 MB
Video-6600GT OC 512 PCI-e 162.11 i think were drivers



Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: pol.exe
Application Version: 1.18.2.0
Application Timestamp: 46653906
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdc9
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00061690
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 13ab
Additional Information 2: 06563f9174e317a3f2b48d5f5bbe6d79
Additional Information 3: d05a
Additional Information 4: 7eb2b184b531857e7c38c39224e1b468

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 466104578


Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: pol.exe
Application Version: 1.18.2.0
Application Timestamp: 46653906
Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.15.11.6501
Fault Module Timestamp: 461e8643
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00161c03
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: a481
Additional Information 2: 8c8c90dfba46b56992991fedfdd3c75a
Additional Information 3: 1cb6
Additional Information 4: 89277412409d5f6830985d687116e290

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 466103260

The second one is the main one that happens all the time, I get the same errors as the original OP. Where I will crash 10 times within 5 min. I'm really at my wits end with this as to what is causing this. Sometimes i wonder if its cooling issue as it will happen in Dyna an beseiged. But recently it has been happening Just walking into diff areas

[Snowknight26]

162.11 for Vista and 6x00s?
Latest for Vista and 8x00s are 163.11 (WiC release), latest for Vista and 6x00s, 7x00s, and 8x00s are 162.22.

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downl ... river.html

[retice]

I was just pulling the number out of my head, but its the latest that was released on the 11th. It is the 162.22