Demo keeps crashing :(

[popabawa]

Hi guys,

I'm gutted... I was SO looking forward to this game but I'm having problems.

After launching, the demo crashes after about 30-60 seconds, I get a brief BSOD, then the PC reboots.

I've tried the demo from PC Gamer and the updated demo, both the same.

I have DirectX 9.0 installed and I've checked the registry fix mentioned elsewhere, no difference.

It's not creating a blackbox.txt file either.

I'm running an Windows XP Pro (SP2) on an Athlon XP 3200, Radeon 9600 with the very latest drivers.

Any ideas? This game looks SO good!

[Jackmn]

Hmm, this would be a hardware or driver problem I think.

Alright, right click 'my computer', hit 'properties', go to 'advanced', go to 'startup and recovery', and disable 'automatically restart'.

Hopefully you'll get a BSOD you can copy down.

You can then follow the instructions outlined here to retrieve a log file for your crash.

Please copy/paste that in here, and I may be able to help you. No promises.

[popabawa]

Thanks, I really should have figured that out eh?

OK, the BSOD message is;

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The problem seems to be caused by the following files: KMIXER.SYS

 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Might be worth adding, I've had no problems with Half-Life 2 or Rome: Total War, the other two games installed on my PC.

[popabawa]

Sorry... hit 'submit' a little early on my last message!

With ref. to the 2nd part of your message, I don't have a C:\Windows\LogFiles\Watchdog folder, there's no \logfile\ folder under \windows\

[Darksun]

Are there any avaliable windows updates?

A quick google revealed http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... 86-ENU.exe

But I'm not sure if it'll fix your problem.

Edt:Looks like that fix is Win2k only.

http://forums.winxpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=7505 has other people with your problem

Edit2: Another thing you can try - Go to Start>Run and enter regsvr32 msxml3.dll, then click OK. A message should come up saying DLLRegister succeded.

[popabawa]

Hi,

Thanks for trying to help.

From those forum postings, it looks like the ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe is a common mobo for this problem. That's what I have.

Tried the 'regsvr32 msxml3.dll' fix but no difference.

<sigh> I'll try disabling the on-board sound to see if that fixes it but I think it might be no Darwinia for me

Iain.