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Blue Screen While Gaming
Jan 4, 2009I found this forum while googling for my problem with no look. I recently upgraded from Windows XP Professional 64 to Windows Vista Ultimate 64 - and I love Vista!
What kills the whole experience is that I can't play my favorite game (Grand Theft Auto IV) cause it ALWAYS get a BSOD within 20 minutes of playing. I don't think i Have a hardware problem as everything worked just fine in XP. The BSODs came the same day as I installed Vista, but only in GTA IV. See BSOD message and screenshot below.
I don't know if this is a problem isolated to GTA IV, but it's the only time I've seen it happen. I've played World of Warcraft and Left 4 Dead for hours without any hangups at all.
The error code:
0x00000101(0x0000000000000061.0x0000000000000000.0xFFFFFA60005Ec180.0x0000000000000001)
Computer specs: (Nothing is overclocked.
CPU; AMD X2 6000+ 3.0 GHz
Graphics; 8800GTS 320 MB
RAM; 6 GB pc6400 800MHz (2x1GB + 2x2GB, both matched and in dual-channel)
MB; MSI K9N Platinum SLI
HDD; Western digital 500 GB
Sound; Realtek High Definition Audio
Blue Screen When Gaming
Apr 25, 2010the dump file are Minidump.rar
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