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And it's not the trainer!

I've had similar situations happen with other recent 2K games (Borderlands, to be exact). A large explosion or flash happens in the game, and my screen goes all-grey, or all-tan, and the PC locks up completely (causing me to force a hard-reboot).

My system was built in late 2008 around a GA-P35-DS3R & a C2D E6850. The original 8800GTX I had died, and I upgraded it to a XFX GTX260 Black Edition. Can any of you guys speculate weather that card is 'too much' for this older non-PCIe 2.0 motherboard & might be causing these crashes?

I'm planning a i7-870 build very soon, but I'm stuck waiting for Giga to release the GA-P55A-UD7 & nVidia to put the GTX480 to market. I would hate to have to wait until March (or later) to play this game...

i just crashed when the whatever daddy comes out and grabs elenor you follow and zap the dr. or whatever he is while lighting. wonder if its with the alt commands going to load up and try again!

no still crashed. but i zapped the dr. and then hit him with my drill and then crash. i had hit someone before with the drill and it didn't crash. so i am just feeding info to you all so you know. will try again without runnng the trainer. see if that helps


Ran wthout trainer. Didn't crash. run with did .. something isn't right. just a FYI

You know what, I think I figured out what the problem might be - my damn Creative X-Fi card! I was getting crashes on SP mode in Modern Warfare 2 as well - I just finished the second-half of SP on my USB headset (so as not to disturb my wife), and not a SINGLE glitch or crash.

I'm going to check for any latest drivers, but I've had what could only be described as IRQ conflicts in years past on a previous machine I built with an Audigy 4 card as well. I pulled the card & used the nForce2 digital audio on the motherboard with '0' issues... 🤔

I have an X-Fi fatality, and have had 0 crash issues.

Windows 7 64 bit.

it was the invincibility part of the trainer. now the game is crashing on its on when the daughter teams up with you. she offers you a plasmid and when i take it, i crash

if it crashes the or you dont have the driver up to date or you're pc isn't good enought

Creative hasn't posted an updated driver for the X-Fi family since the summer of last year - and my machine is a C2D E6850 + 4GB RAM + GTX260 Black Edition - plenty powerful enough to run the game...

Update - I just about damn near confirmed it now - I played 4 chapters/areas in on Bioshock 2 & a few SpecOps levels on MW2 without any lock-ups or crashes! I guess I'll put the X-Fi back in it's box until I can sell it (there's nothing wrong with the AC889 codec on this motherboard anyway - it's Realtek's most advanced & sounds just fine on my 5.1 set).

This might make me want to go back & try Borderlands again...

[Edited by w2sjw, 2/15/2010 8:29:20 PM]

i can assure you my tower is more than good enough.

Alienware/Area51 7500
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.7
3072MB RAM
3 - NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (3 gig VRAM) SLI
Speakers (Creative SB Audigy)


I can fly FSX on Full Graphics with no problems!