The Witcher 2 blue screen and reboot

Hi all, so the problem is that after just some minutes of playing I'll get a blue screen. I already changed textures to medium, disabled all effects but it still happens. It's just with this game. Anyone with the same problem? My OS is windows xp 32-bit 4gb ram, I've read something about 32-bit OS and 3gb ram problems. Thanks.

I had problems until I updated my card driver. Guessing you've tried this already? What about a system overheat? All I can suggest if you've done this is to set everything as low as possible and increase settings until you figure out what works. Sounds like a vid card issue though.

Update sound card drivers, video card drivers and get the latest version of dx9 and see if that helps.

4 GB of ram shouldnt cause you to have bluescreens,unless your ram is faulty. XP 32 bit will only use something like 3.33gb of the 4gb of RAM though, and im pretty sure this includes video memory on your graphics card in the total.

I had problems until I updated my card driver. Guessing you've tried this already? What about a system overheat? All I can suggest if you've done this is to set everything as low as possible and increase settings until you figure out what works. Sounds like a vid card issue though.

Skullcandy

Update sound card drivers, video card drivers and get the latest version of dx9 and see if that helps.

4 GB of ram shouldnt cause you to have bluescreens,unless your ram is faulty. XP 32 bit will only use something like 3.33gb of the 4gb of RAM though, and im pretty sure this includes video memory on your graphics card in the total.

pelvist

well, you could try taking 1GB of RAM out of your comp and see what happens. Also you can try downloading a tool called "WhoCrashed." It may give you an idea of what is causing your comp to crash. Here is the link http://download.cnet.com/WhoCrashed/3000-2094_4-75205821.html

Try playing it on Windowed mode, it works for me

Wouldn't the best solution just be to read the minidump and out what's crashing?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

I know this helped me with Bad Company 2 blue screens, the program told me that punkbuster.exe was the problem. Perhaps this can tell you what kind of thing is actually causing this.

Try playing it on Windowed mode, it works for me

guildclaws

If you have anything overclocked, reset your BIOS. Reset everything and start from there. But please make sure you write down all your overclocks on a notepad or save it to a profile where you could access it later. I hope you fix this issue. Cheers!Elann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]If you have anything overclocked, reset your BIOS. Reset everything and start from there. But please make sure you write down all your overclocks on a notepad or save it to a profile where you could access it later. I hope you fix this issue. Cheers!Sordidus

You got Bsod it usually happened cause of some hardware or device faliure where windows decides to shutdown to prevent damage.

try to find your solution using this and google it.It helped me my hard drive was failing that caused it

Overclocking is a delicate thing, and it invloves not just the card itself.

if ram itself is the issue, it won't just cause problem during gaming, it'll be causing problems all the time.

memory leak might cause game crashing, but not necessarily system reboot.

the most likely reason I can think of is the overheating. OC itself oftentime cause game crash, but not system reboot.

but if OC generates the kind of heat that your system (not just the gpu fan, but the air flow of the whole computer) cannot deal with, the system itself will crash.

oftentime this kind of overheting occurs suddenly when the game demands the video card to run intensely.