The following tools are currently known to be affected by PunkBuster’s memory scanning besides RivaTuner: The situation may take place on both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards when any tool providing direct access to hardware is residing in memory. The problem is not specific to RivaTuner and it is caused by the recent update of Battlefield 2142 PunkBuster anti-cheat system, which is trying to perform aggressive memory scanning and may cause graphics hardware to stall due to unauthorized access to hardware I/O port mapped memory range. Playing Battlefield 2142 v1.25 multiplayer may cause your system to freeze then crash (under Windows XP) or cause display driver restart (under Windows Vista) if RivaTuner or any other hardware tuning related tool is residing in memory. all blue screens stop with rivatuner removed. On a side note, i am in a gaming clan (yeah i know big dork) and there are 3 of us using 8800 cards AND rivetuner.Īll blue screens with rivatuner. apparently when you are using rivatuner to manage your fan speeds, (i think it may be related to background monitoring) it causes the video driver to act up and crash bf2142!!! i removed rivatuner from my machine and bam the problems went away. i slowly started installing programs to see what caused the trouble. I was able to play for HOURS on end with no problems, no crashes, no slowdowns, no nothing. So after the first initial fresh install, this is what i had running on my machine: i formated it with boot n nuke 5 times to completely wipe over any data that was there (yeah i know a bit overkill)

i took out all of my hard drives except for one. I finally got fed up and decided to gut the whole computer. it would NOT crash in ANY other game but 2142.Īfter dealing with support on the EA side and the nvidia side i got tired of them blaming each other for the problem. i have tried every single set of drivers on the market for my 8800gts and it would do the same thing. it could crash after 20 seconds or it could crash after a half hour. I would be playing bf2142 and EVERY TIME it would crash. which saddens me because i LOVE rivatuner and what its capable of. Maybe you guys can give me some insight.Īfter many many moons of blaming EA games and nvidia for my BSOD while playing bf2142, i have finally found out that the problem has been rivatuner all along. I looked around the forums and couldn't find anything on this topic.

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