ati2dvag - blue screen

(ischbinz) #1

hello,
i know its not a real support forum - but maybe any1 can help me
after a year without et:qw i decided to play it a little bit.
but now i got always the blue screen of death…
i can play 2-3 maps in a campaign

the message is blabla ati2dvag

what i did until now:
reinstalled windows few times - with different ati drivers

my hardware:
amd 940 blackedition
4 gb ram (8 but xp support only 3.x)
PowerColor HD5750 Green (ati 5750 passive + 120 mm fan)

and some other stuff
(i know know that my odys grafix tablet drivers freeze et:qw while starting :S)

mybe any1 can give me a little hint/tip
i hate rebooting :frowning:

(Dthy) #2

I had a problem like that ages ago, can’t remember the error message i got, but i did get BSoD and it turned out to be a loose GFX card. Not sure if that could be the problem

(Apples) #3

Try unwire - rewire all your cables for connection, check the temperatures and clean the dust if needed. Its pretty simple solutions but sometimes it works well.

As you already tryed many drivers I guess it wont be software but hardware problems, can you play other (bigger) games without problems? If so it might not be a heat problem.

Try to play other games and check your temp, run a stress simulation on your gfx card to check if all is working properly, this way you can exclude a hardware gfx card problem I guess.

Well, not really rocket science here but I had these kind of problems numerous times and very often it was due to me lazy boi not cleaning up my PC often enough…

If nothing works, just relax, sit on your couch and drink beers with some friends.

Peace

(brbrbr) #4

stick with WDDM 1.x drivers.
not ones with kernel-space-drivers. yes, they WASTLY improve GPU saturation/utilization smothness in HEAVVY games, but here also [similar to in-Topic-described]drawbacks.
usually common for “hotfix” drivers and some AMD tools, like GPUclock and etc.
so my advice is:

  1. analyze you logs. to get EXACT description of STOP-message in BSoD/GSoD event info. with or without dump analyze.
  2. reinstall WHQL gfx drivers with tree reboots[after uninstall, after driver sweepwer-alike software worx, after driver install]

p.s.
one of worsest condition: you GFX card will overheat[VPU recover can’t handle this in number of situations].

(ischbinz) #5

thx for you replies - think its a problem of some hardware combination i use -
because wolfenstein2 isn t starting, too.

so i reboot y machine just after the 3rd map in a campaign ends - then i can play another 3 maps :S

some times in windows a message pop up that some code in line 1779 isn t ok - but no message what program it causes :S

weird

update:

pff

(ischbinz) #6

yo finally i was able to solve my problem -
as i expected some drivers are incompatible, dunno which but i installed as fresh windows just with the essential gaming drivers - sound and grafix and everything works fine
unlucky i have to work with 2 different windows now, 1 for gaming (et:qw and wolfenstein2) and one for rest :frowning:

thx for your answers

(Crytiqal) #7

People still play Wolfenstein2?

I thought that game died 5 minutes after it came out.

(Susefreak) #8

They tried to do some cups in there… :stuck_out_tongue:

(ischbinz) #9

hihi nah i play the singleplayer again - maybe i get some inspiration for another et model :slight_smile:

btw i think 2 minutes after release :frowning:

(.Chris.) #10

When did Wolfenstein get a sequel?

(ischbinz) #11

never i think - i just name them - its a little bit confusing
* Castle Wolfenstein
* Wolfenstein 3D
* Return to Castle Wolfenstein
* Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
* Wolfenstein (2009)

(rhmitul) #12

I have this ati2dvag blue screen problem too with 2 different computers. I solved the problem by uninstalling all ati drivers and then downloading older catalyst install packs and tried em all.

(ischbinz) #13

i think my problem was a raid controller driver
but maybe some other stuff 2

i tried several drivers - nothing helped :S

only a “gaming” windows was my to solve it