Shrike7

I have tried a few of the recommendations above: 1) New drivers. I installed the 180.48 driver that was recommended above. That didn't fix it 2) I tried the Riva tuner and set the duty cycle to 70%. Likewise that didn't help. I haven't done the memory test, but if I had faulty memory wouldn't it have come up in other games? I mentioned I play WAR which regularly uses more. I compared them in task manager. Sins would have about

hey I was away on the weekend but thank you all for the advice. I will try the memory test later. I remember glancing at task manager once and thinking it wasn't as much of a hog as Warhammer online. I can replicate this issue 100% of the time so far, about 5 minutes in (and not always the same part of the tutorial). I do have 4gigs of RAM.

this is from the application log: Faulting application sins of a solar empire.exe, version 1.1.2.0, faulting module sins of a solar empire.exe, version 1.1.2.0, fault address 0x000225b4. I tried to see the bsod message and all I could see was something about a dll before it tried to reboot.

Thanks - I will try the event log when I'm home later tonite and post my findings here.

Yeah I did purchase the card in Sept. 08. I hadn't heard about that chip issue - good to know. My BSOD only happens consistently with Sins which makes me question if it's hardware related though.

it is the only game that has the problem, however I did have Warhammer online crash twice yesterday (one BSOD). It's the only other game I've tried to play since installing Sins. Warhammer has crashed in the past but pretty infrequently. I hate to think that something got corrupted during the install. I'm beginning to think about trying a system restore. The BSOD happens too fast for me to see the message. I'll try to get a closer look next time.</p

Thanks for the tip. I tried that and still no luck. It usually crashes in the tutorial, but I've seen it crash just attempting to change menu settings. I do have blume off as well.

Hello, Hopefully someone can help here. I just bought the game and did the install through impulse. I can't seem to play for more than 5 minutes before I get BSOD or a lockup that requires a hard restart. In my attempts to google / search I found a bunch of older threads pointing to nvidia issues but I have the latest driver for my 8800gt (v. 178.24), updated sound card drivers etc. I'm running XP 32 bit (latest SP) on AMD 64X2 dual core 4200+ with as much memo