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XP, VISTA 32bit or VISTA 64bit - Please help me decide

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I just remembered that I formatted my PC last weekend so any hotfixes that I previously did are gone.... are there any hotfixes that I may need ?

I know I had this message before and I did some hotfixes previously and I got same error message previously... so I don't know if it will help...

Looking up this error message... I'm going to install the below hotfix that address virtual address space usage.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105

Any other hotfixes that you know of... pls let me know.
 
Originally posted by: spike99
I just remembered that I formatted my PC last weekend so any hotfixes that I previously did are gone.... are there any hotfixes that I may need ?

I know I had this message before and I did some hotfixes previously and I got same error message previously... so I don't know if it will help...

Looking up this error message... I'm going to install the below hotfix that address virtual address space usage.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105

Any other hotfixes that you know of... pls let me know.
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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941649 That's worth installing,how's your PC now?
 
Originally posted by: spike99
Forget it... It's not working...

Just got error message "nvlddmkm" stopped responding....

I knew it was too good to be true... argh !!!
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Use Google: "nvlddmkm" stopped responding

Many many threads on it. I had same issue but honestly cant remember what the fix was. It was 9 months ago.
 
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941649 That's worth installing,how's your PC now?
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After all the uninstalls/installs the game COH still froze/crashed... and even after formatting my PC... I still had problems... But... I have finally got this resolved. I know that previously I had made some changes and problem momentarirly went away... and I said... Yeah, looks to be good... but eventually errors came back....

I can definitely say now after extensive testing/playing that this is now resolved. I had joined another forum and followed someones suggestions....

Basically, when game is launched... go to game options and to to graphic settings. In here, there is a shadow quality. The default setting was Direct3D DX10. I changed this setting to High and voila no more crashes/freezes !!

Other people had the same problem and after this change they no longer freeze/crash. Initially I thought that it was a problem with DX10 & NVIDIA, but it appears that people with ATI also had the same problem and after changing this setting they were fine too.

The only problem that I still have is that game AOE III, crashes on me once in a while... but checking system requirements... It does not list Windows VISTA. So I think that may be the problem...
 
The only problem that I still have is that game AOE III, crashes on me once in a while... but checking system requirements... It does not list Windows VISTA. So I think that may be the problem...
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I'm gonna try running game with XP/SP2 compability to see if this makes any difference for this game.
 
Originally posted by: spike99
Forget it... It's not working...

Just got error message "nvlddmkm" stopped responding....

I knew it was too good to be true... argh !!!
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You know what's random, I had no problems whatsoever up until I decided to install Perfectdisk just to get around from using the built-in Vista defrag app.

All of a sudden my 3dmark06 starts crashing and I get stuttering / artifacts along with the nvlddmkm errors that pop up when I play games.

Uninstalled my 8800GT drivers, got rid of Perfectdisk then updated the GT drivers and bam, error free!
 
You know what's random, I had no problems whatsoever up until I decided to install Perfectdisk just to get around from using the built-in Vista defrag app.
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I've been staying away from installing anything other than essential programs on my PC in order to pin point my crashes/freezes. Now that I have resolved my main headaches I will start to install some other programs but will do them 1 at a time.
 
Originally posted by: RS8
Originally posted by: spike99
Forget it... It's not working...

Just got error message "nvlddmkm" stopped responding....

I knew it was too good to be true... argh !!!
Click to expand...

You know what's random, I had no problems whatsoever up until I decided to install Perfectdisk just to get around from using the built-in Vista defrag app.

All of a sudden my 3dmark06 starts crashing and I get stuttering / artifacts along with the nvlddmkm errors that pop up when I play games.

Uninstalled my 8800GT drivers, got rid of Perfectdisk then updated the GT drivers and bam, error free!
Click to expand...

I'm using O&O Defrag 10 (set for manual defrags) which has never given me any problems with Vista x64 or gaming.
 
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