BSOD Playing GTA4

So I just got GTA4 and after playing it for a few minutes my screen goes black and my monitor loses signal with my computer. I see the HDD light on still so I figure it hadn't locked up yet so I'll see what it does. So I hear a beep (not the post code for the ram), then my computer restarts then I hear the post code beep. I come to get back on windows xp.

The error report said I BSOD.
http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/Response.aspx/11/en-us/5.1.2600.2.00010100.3.0?SGD=86d01fc4-6689-4626-9126-7f0e8f6d0a3c#here

I've never encountered such an interesting problem. It seems like my video card locked up trying to play it. I let the game choose the graphic settings for me so it wouldn't be too demanding.

Specs
CPU - Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz
Video card - 8800GTS 640MB (driver ver. 197.45)
RAM - 2GBs
OS - XP
PSU - OCZ 600w
Mobo - Asus P5QL/EPU

Any thoughts?

it's not actually BSOD if you don't see the actual blue screen. Windows is giving that message propably after any kind of crash. did you get temps from CPU and GPU?groowagon

I just played a couple rounds of CoD4, seems to be going smoothly with that.

The settings the game itself choose are far away from NOT demanding, better change them by yourself. And why dont you check if there is a newer driver for your videocard

The settings the game itself choose are far away from NOT demanding, better change them by yourself. And why dont you check if there is a newer driver for your videocard

sapetto

blow the dust out from your rig, especially from GPU heatsinks. it helped my 8800GT keep going again without crashes :)groowagon

I have the Crysis demo I can play to see. My old 8800GTS 320MB handled it pretty well as long I wasn't alt+tabbing in and out of game. I also played World in Conflict which is a lot more demanding than BF2 or CoD4.

[QUOTE="groowagon"]blow the dust out from your rig, especially from GPU heatsinks. it helped my 8800GT keep going again without crashes :)Mystic-G

[QUOTE="Mystic-G"][QUOTE="groowagon"]blow the dust out from your rig, especially from GPU heatsinks. it helped my 8800GT keep going again without crashes :)groowagon

I played both WiC and Crysis for a few minutes. My GPU temp seems to max out at 75/76C from what I see. Not sure how dangerously high that is, but I didn't crash. I probably played Crysis and GTA4 for the same amount of time and I had Crysis on almost all High settings to boot. I'd find it hard to believe that GTA4 is somehow more graphically demanding on medium/low settings unless the coding is THAT poor.

Edit: To note my card is 'Superclocked' shipped from the factory. Not sure if that's worth knowing.

Crysis is more demanding on the GPU, but GTAIV is more demanding on the CPU and ram. Just thought i'd point that out. Not sure of your problem though if Crysis works fine.

Crysis is more demanding on the GPU, but GTAIV is more demanding on the CPU and ram. Just thought i'd point that out. Not sure of your problem though if Crysis works fine. Although GTA may be using more Vram.

kraken2109

Crysis is more demanding on the GPU, but GTAIV is more demanding on the CPU and ram. Just thought i'd point that out. Not sure of your problem though if Crysis works fine.

kraken2109

[QUOTE="kraken2109"]

Crysis is more demanding on the GPU, but GTAIV is more demanding on the CPU and ram. Just thought i'd point that out. Not sure of your problem though if Crysis works fine.

Mystic-G

Just a thought: the first beep may have been from your graphics card, which could indicate it's not getting enough power.

[QUOTE="Mystic-G"]

[QUOTE="kraken2109"]

Crysis is more demanding on the GPU, but GTAIV is more demanding on the CPU and ram. Just thought i'd point that out. Not sure of your problem though if Crysis works fine.

broken_bass_bin

Just a thought: the first beep may have been from your graphics card, which could indicate it's not getting enough power.