Hi all,
I've played RO for about two months or so at this point, and for the duration of that time, there were absolutely zero technical issues. However, after I died one day in ant hell, the loading screen froze. Blue screen of death followed. It was an entirely unexplained event.
This problem has since persisted, but it doesn't happen every time I zone. There seems to be no consistency, and there isn't always a blue screen; it will sometime just lock up the computer and force a hard reset.
This problem only happens when zoning, period. Were I to stay on the same map for ten hours, I could kill/chat/whatever freely and have zero worries. I've tested other, much more demanding games and they have demonstrated no problems.
I wish I had a full transcript of the blue screen, and I'll try to get it if it happens again. However, I do know that it said something about a clock and secondary processor.
So, to wrap it up, with my appreciation for any help ...
Problem: After two months of playing without issue, I suddenly began locking up or getting blue screens on zone loading *only*. This followed a character death in ant hell. The crash doesn't happen every time I zone, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when it happens. When it freezes, the only way out is a hard reset. Blue screen mentions something about a clock and a secondary processor. No other games have issues.
Computer Model: Alienware M15x
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i7 CPU - Q 740 @ 1.73GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.7GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M, 4GB
Things I've Tried: Complete uninstall and reinstall, scanning for malware and other sneaky things with Malwarebytes, leaving the computer to cool for extended periods (still got errors before it was even warm),
Edited by 1811131220144615093, 04 August 2014 - 08:40 AM.