Getting the Blue Screen with Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

[hagatha]

I bought the retail version and loaded it no problem, then before trying it out I downloaded both the patches and installed them, to v1.10. Restarted the system and tried to play it.... BSOD!!! I checked all the drivers for the video card 84.21, BIOS 1013 (chipset is 6.65) and CPU. I checked to see the version of DirectX (9.0c). Everything has the latest drivers and software.
I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, and tried it before the patches.... BSOD! I changed the res of my screen down to 16bit from 32, and down to 1024x768. Same thing! The readme.txt file says that its compatible with the Geforce 7 series thru the 7800, would it make a difference that my card is a 7900GT?

EDIT: Do I need a Sound Card???? won't the onboard audio work???
Thess are the minimum requirements...
In order for this game to run properly, your PC MUST meet or exceed these minimum system requirements:Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP (only)
Processor: 2 GHz Pentium IV or equivalent (2.8 GHz recommended)
RAM: 1024 MB
Video Card: DirectX 9-compliant Shader 2.0 card with 128 MB of VRAM (256 MB recommended) (see supported list*)
Sound Card: DirectX 9-compliant sound card (PC audio solution containing Dolby Digital Live required for Dolby Digital audio)
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)
CD-ROM: 12x or faster CD-ROM or 2x or faster DVD-ROM
Hard Drive Space: 5 GB
Multiplay: 64 Kbps upstream or faster broadband connection
*Supported Video Cards at Time of Release
NVIDIA GeForce 6/7 families
ATI Radeon 9600-9800/X families
NVIDIA nForce or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio.
NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives.

I am able to play other ubisoft games like Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six, even Tomb Raider no problems!

Any ideas????

Thanks

[pam123]

What does Event Viewer have to say?
That's in Control Panel>Administrative Tools.

edit : Do you have any virtual drives on your PC?
Ubisoft was said to have changed it's copy protection.

[hagatha]

I think this is the event.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: ForceWare Intelligent Application Manager (IAM)
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 6/14/2006
Time: 2:10:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: Max
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ForceWare Intelligent Application Manager (IAM) ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Service started.

After each one of these events it shows the system restarting.

I've installed the latest Forceware drivers 84.21....

Thanks

[pam123]

Do you have the nVidia firewall enabled?

[hagatha]

Nope, no firewalls neither XP or nVidia. I have Norton IS, Adware SE Pro, Spyware Doctor, and use Spybot search & destroy....

Thanks

[spartan015]

memtest? is ur ram fine? i mean its not really related, but just check...

uninstall then reinstall the forceware?

[pam123]

When you check Help and Support to retrieve details what do you get?
Do you have any virtual drives?
Are you running anything like Alcohol 120%?

[spartan015]

or deamon tools

[hagatha]

All 4 gigs of ram went 14 hours on memtest86+ no errors...

I'm not running any virtual drives or and deamon tools or alcohol 120%

[pam123]

I think you're going to have to try some different drivers.
91.29 and 91.31 instead of the instead of the 84.21.

[hagatha]

Bingo!!!

Thanks!

[pam123]

Glad it worked.
Game on!