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jirij
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Posted - 2008.05.22 22:04:00 -
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I have tried to run EVE on my Intel Santa Rosa based laptop (Core2Duo T7300, Intel GMA X3100, 2GB RAM), with the Intel display driver registry hack, but the driver crashes frequently.
The hack involves searching for all the folders in the registry containing "_3dmark06.exe" (many other games and applications are there as well), creating a DWORD key with the name "_Exefile.exe" for the EVE executable then setting it to "1". This supposedly tells the driver to use the CPU for some of the 3D calculations, which can effectively DOUBLE THE FRAMERATE on my system. (No wonder Intel themselves resort to this hack for many games.)
Login screen and warping in space works fine, however when I redock to a station, in a couple of seconds the screen starts to flash and then it either halts in a BSOD or the driver notifies Windows that it has recovered from a serious error.
The symptoms are alike on Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 32-bit (I have all the latest drivers, hotfixes and DirectX runtime). I have tested both the Classic and the Premium graphics (latter only on Vista, on XP its unavailable), with or without Aero, redocking to a station always hangs the driver in a couple of seconds.
The drivers I have tested are:
- XP 14.33.1 (3/20/2008) BSOD FREEZE
- XP 14.33 (2/15/2008) BSOD FREEZE
- XP 14.32.3 (12/29/2007) WORKS
- Vista 15.9 (4/25/2008) FREEZE/RECOVERS
- Vista 15.8 (2/21/2008) FREEZE/RECOVERS
I have notified Intel technical support.
Anyone able to run the client on Vista with the registry hack?
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jirij
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Posted - 2008.05.25 17:09:00 -
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Edited by: jirij on 25/05/2008 17:09:18
No one else with an X3100 laptop running Vista or XP to validate my problem?
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Ameliorate
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Posted - 2008.05.25 21:29:00 -
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Edited by: Ameliorate on 25/05/2008 21:30:56
I get constant bluescreens on my X3100 laptop without the registry hack.
I have an Acer Extensa 5620Z. Dual T2370, GM965 Express (X3100) and 3GB RAM.
Occurs on both the Premium and Classic client. I restored Windows fresh and the problem still occurs. Ran Memtest and it found no errors.
For me it occurs less in windowed mode than fullscreen mode.
EDIT: This is on XP Pro SP3.
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jirij
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Posted - 2008.05.26 23:01:00 -
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So you get crashes with a clean SP3... I have a couple of questions:
- do you have the latest 14.33.1 driver installed?
- what happens if you put the "_Exefile.exe" set to "1" DWORD key in the registry (in every folder where you can find "_3dmark06.exe)?
- is it any faster with the registry hack?
- does it BSOD as well?
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Posted - 2008.05.27 08:59:00 -
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doe sdisbaling the sound have any effect
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Ameliorate
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Posted - 2008.05.27 09:37:00 -
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 Originally by: jirij
So you get crashes with a clean SP3... I have a couple of questions:
- do you have the latest 14.33.1 driver installed?
- what happens if you put the "_Exefile.exe" set to "1" DWORD key in the registry (in every folder where you can find "_3dmark06.exe)?
- is it any faster with the registry hack?
- does it BSOD as well?
- Yip. 14.33.13/20/2008
- Nothing noticeable. Frame rate is still about the same as normal.
- Not that I can tell. Frame rate normally sits between 20-30 and its still doing the same.
- Yip, BSOD'd after about 30 minutes, which is what normally happens.
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Posted - 2008.06.09 04:17:00 -
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UPDATE: I have installed Vista x64 with the latest Intel 64-bit driver and the driver does NOT freeze when running EVE. Tested for hours in space and docked as well, with both the registry performance tweak off an on.
Anyone else running EVE on Vista on Intel GMA X3100 graphics hardware with or without problems?
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