Some help please
A few of my games (DOOM3, Serious Sam 1 & 2, Madden 2K5 & Hulk would keep crashing to the desktop a few minutes into the game. And I can't even get Return To Castle Wolfenstien to install. When these crashes would happen, I receive 2 errors:
1 ~ message box when game crashes:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program C:\ <game>
Abnormal Program Termination
2 ~ once desktop shows up:
Display Driver Stopped Responding & Has Recovered
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding & has successfully recovered
I did get some help from BFG Support, which meant for me to uninstall my GPU driver, reboot into Safe Mode (when I booted into safe-mode, a list of items scrolled past, but paused at CRCDISK.SYS for a moment, strange) & preform a "driver scrub", w/Driver Sweeper then reboot & install the NVIDIA v169.25 driver.
It helped in getting DOOM3 running w/o crashing, Hulk plays OK for a few minutes then pauses (video) & stutters (sound) once in a while, but resumes after 10 or so seconds w/o crashing to the desktop. Serious Sam 1 & 2 still crash to the desktop soon after they start, I can't try Madden 2K5 right now & RTCW still will not install (though I think this is due to the OS).
I also turned off Norton Antivirus & Windows Defender. After installing the new driver, there are 3 new items in msconfig; does anyone happen to know if I really need these running:
NVIDIA Compatible Windows Vista Display driver, Version 169.25
NVIDIA Media Center Library
NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 169.25
I may need to also DL SP1, but since I am using dial-up, I'm looking at other was to get SP1. I tried calling MS, but they don't have a disk to send out right now. So now I need to get SP1 somehow to see if that fixes my probs.
Any ideas on getting these games running correctly?
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