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co_damsku said:
Hi Xzoltan,

Unfortunately, the beta drivers did not help. At this point, I would suggest you try to revert to an older version of the drivers. It seems people on the interwebs have been having the same error with their graphics card and for some, reverting to the previous version of the whql driver helped.
I'd like to suggest one more thing, I know you have already tried and lower your graphics settings and the result was not promising. However, did you try to change the cursor to System cursor in the graphics settings? For some very odd reasons, I have read on this forum it had helped some people having issues with drivers... I think you should definitely give it a try too, if you haven't yet. Also, does running the game in windowed mode changes the behaviour in any way? If you haven't tried this yet, it would be worth a try too.
And that is one long shot, but I think if your computer is so you can open it (without voiding guarantee), you should double check the graphics card is not badly pinned by removing it entirely from its slot, blow the potential dust on it and put it back. The error you see can be an hardware malfunction caused by some "misplaced dust".
Cheers,

/D
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I will give it a try, thank you.

I have tried the system curser thingy, no help. I believe I've tried the windowed mode as well, but I'll try again just to make sure. And, I will also check that there is no dust etc, and try reverting to older drivers.

I will let you know how it works out.
 
I am sorry to be such a pain in the ass, but it still does not work! I have tried the last suggestions, windowed, with and without system curser, reversing the drivers, and I removed my graphics card, used this compressed air canister I have, and it still does the same thing. It doesn't exactly give me an error code now, but I bet that if it could, it would be the same thing. I still get the Windows graphics driver has halted and recovered thingy. And the log doesn't show anything other then starting the game, oading language, addons and stuff.
 
There is nothing to be sorry about! I very much hope we find a way to get CiM to play nice with your machine :)

So just to be clear, let have a recap:
What you are getting now is a popup from the windows taskbar notifying you the driver became unstable and has recovered? And this happens after you play for a while.
Does it happen regardless if you started a new map or if you are playing from a save game? And what happens to the game now you are not getting an error code anymore? Does it crash and you get the Windows system report? Or does it hang with a black screen? Could you describe in details what happens to the CiM application now?

Also, I red-flagged the word "add-ons" here :)
Have you tried to play the game without any mods? If you have, does it exhibit the exact same behaviour?

Finally, due to the nature of the crash (which seems to happen in the graphics driver), it is unlikely the game log will be aware of something gone wrong, hereby, I would suggest you take a look at your windows system logs. They might give you information on what exactly happened just before the driver crashes.
You can view the logs from Control Panel>Administrative tools>Computer Management, in the left pane, you can see System Tools>Event viewer>Windows log.
Examine each of them, particularly the System and Application logs. Feel free to copy/paste chunks of it in here to get feedback if it displays any relevant warning, error or just events.
Cheers,
 
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co_damsku said:
There is nothing to be sorry about! I very much hope we find a way to get CiM to play nice with your machine :)

So just to be clear, let have a recap:
What you are getting now is a popup from the windows taskbar notifying you the driver became unstable and has recovered? And this happens after you play for a while.
Does it happen regardless if you started a new map or if you are playing from a save game? And what happens to the game now you are not getting an error code anymore? Does it crash and you get the Windows system report? Or does it hang with a black screen? Could you describe in details what happens to the CiM application now?

Also, I red-flagged the word "add-ons" here :)
Have you tried to play the game without any mods? If you have, does it exhibit the exact same behaviour?

Finally, due to the nature of the crash (which seems to happen in the graphics driver), it is unlikely the game log will be aware of something gone wrong, hereby, I would suggest you take a look at your windows system logs. They might give you information on what exactly happened just before the driver crashes.
You can view the logs from Control Panel>Administrative tools>Computer Management, in the left pane, you can see System Tools>Event viewer>Windows log.
Examine each of them, particularly the System and Application logs. Feel free to copy/paste chunks of it in here to get feedback if it displays any relevant warning, error or just events.
Cheers,
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You working on a Sunday? ;)

It says something like the NVIDIA kernel mode driver, version X was unstable/stopped working and has recovered. It is indeed a Windows task bar message, not a openGL pop up window now. I don't exactly get a black screen, if I pull up the task manager, I instantly get the black screen as if I tried to tab back to it, but if I click the icon, before hand, nothing happens. I see my browser or whatever I was doing before I started the game. The game crashes, no system error report. Game is just dead. If I tab between the programs, it does NOT show up, even though I can see the icon in my task bare. If I pull up the task manager, it is shown as running under processes, and that is when I get the black screen only. And, it is the only way for me to kill the game effectively after the crash. Doesn't force a reboot or anything like that.

As Slornie said, yes, the addons refered to the official DLC only. I haven't installed anything besides that. Sorry for not making that clear!

I figured that the metro log wouldn't show up with anything as it seems to be a graphical error. If I check the logs you mentioned, I get a buttload of messages under the applications tab, with the OpenGL error code. I get mass amounts of error codes, all with the same though. Maybe 30-40 "Errors". All with the same (Error code: 8). Also, under the systesm tab, I get a "Warning, not an "Error":

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Thanks for the help so far!

I can provide you with some copy/paste and/or screenshots if needed. But as far as I can tell, there isn't really any more information then what we already know. But I'm not the expert here, just let me know.
 
I don't work on Sundays, just happened to stop by here :)

I would be interested in screenshots of the logs you are describing. We could start from there and I'll ask you more information if it looks like there is something useful more to get.
 
I had the same problem anno, when one of my HD3870's was covered with liquid from my water cooling system (wcs), and this overloaded the card... After drying it the problem has gone. (Not this game, it was about 1,5 years ago.)
 
Thanks. That's what I wanted to see :)
Could you also post a screenshot where I can see the content of the Details tab instead of General?
Also, I'm not sure but did I already ask you are you on Vista or Win 7 and 32 or 64 bits?

And there are a few ideas I wanna throw:
-In the NVidia control panel, Manage your 3d settings and entirely disable the "Threaded optimization" option, it's known to cause trouble with opengl.
-If the previous idea doesn't help, you could try to revert to a "very very" old driver, you could try to get the 267.91 (oldest archived on nvidia's site). If the crash is related to some latest kind of feature added which doesn't play nice with your card, you might get away trying that. Judging to issues with people on other games, you may even want to try an older one like 266.58.
 
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co_damsku said:
Thanks. That's what I wanted to see :)
Could you also post a screenshot where I can see the content of the Details tab instead of General?
Also, I'm not sure but did I already ask you are you on Vista or Win 7 and 32 or 64 bits?

And there are a few ideas I wanna throw:
-In the NVidia control panel, Manage your 3d settings and entirely disable the "Threaded optimization" option, it's known to cause trouble with opengl.
-You could try to revert to a "very very" old driver, you could try to get the 267.91 (oldest archived on nvidia's site). If the crash is related to some latest kind of feature added which doesn't play nice with your card, you might get away trying that. Judging to issues with people on other games, you may even want to try an older one like 266.58.
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Hello, I just got home. I will try and do these things tomorrow if I remember and got the time for it. But I can tell you as much as it's Windows 7, 64bit.
 
Hello again! Sorry for late answer, but I just haven't had the time to deal with this until now. But here goes:

Application tap details

System tab details

Funny thing happened. I reversed to the old old drivers you recommended. Game crashed, same thing happened, at least it looked like to be the same thing. It's the same "symptoms", but I get a whole new error in the computer management window:

New error
 
Yea, the different error only means back then they didn't know the driver had a bug and it just crashed, now it crashes but with an error... That unfortunately doesn't help us.
Have you tried to disable the threaded optimization before reverting the drivers? Did that help at all?
 
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