Can Sound Errors Cause Game to Crash?
Madame Mim:
I think that the problem is your video card - nvidia had a problem with Seasons and now it has it again with BV. I think that your monitor is going to sleep because it is getting no signal from the video card and thinks you have turned the machine off. Try adding the line
boolprop useShaders false to your userStartup.cheat and see if it improves things. If it does then what you were experiencing was the nvidia/BV 'bug' and you'll need to leave that in until a proper nvidia patch comes out.
MuseEgo:
Actually, I recall having this exact same problem a while back, immediatly after I upgraged my graphics card to a nvidia geforce. I had downloaded the updated drivers, and my moniter was continually turning itself off and getting strange graphics effects. Rolling back to the previous driver stopped it, so I haven't been quite game to update the driver since then. :-\
KellyQ:
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2007 September 14, 22:13:12
I think that the problem is your video card - nvidia had a problem with Seasons and now it has it again with BV. I think that your monitor is going to sleep because it is getting no signal from the video card and thinks you have turned the machine off. Try adding the line
boolprop useShaders false to your userStartup.cheat and see if it improves things. If it does then what you were experiencing was the nvidia/BV 'bug' and you'll need to leave that in until a proper nvidia patch comes out.
Already did that, less then a week after installing the new card. :-\
ZephyrZodiac:
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ZZ, I am using the newest drivers from Nvidia's website. What version are you using?
93.71 - from the website, not from the installation disc (supposedly the same, but there were some distinct differences in how I was able to customize my desktop) and I just didn't like the effects I was getting, so I switched to the one I'd downloaded for OFB, which seems to be working fine for me.
I have problems with my game, but they are not due to my video drivers, I'm pretty sure, as if they were, then every lot would present problems, and not every lot does. Damned attraction markers that don't all get deleted, I think....)
Deviancy:
Quote from: KellyQ on 2007 September 14, 19:12:31
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 September 14, 17:49:18
I have a XFX Nvidia Geforce 7600. B and Hegelian(sorry if I am misspelling that) have been quite helpful with suggestions and ideas and I really thought it had been squared away. The only other thing I could think of was to check the error logs and hence my post regarding the sound.
I'm using the asus 7600.. lovely card.. no fans... totally quiet.
But I have the same issue as you..
As for the answer to your question...
Yes.. soundcard conflicts can cause the game to crash your monitor to get that out of sync error shutdown.
You don't need to go into your bios and you don't need to check hibernate, it has nothing to do with that.
BV also has a memory leak which may or may help the video card to switch off the monitor. Hard to say..
Nvidia has beta drivers out now.. they should be finalized sometime soon. So maybe that'll fix the issue, maybe not. There's also an issue with BV that affects a few of creatives chipsets.. that won't be fixed by nvidia or creative. Creative hardly ever updates their drivers. That is going to have to be on Maxis to fix.
Sucks, eh?
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