Blue Screen of Death with some sound cards

Had a lot of bsods in the last few weeks, have an Audigy2 ZS PCI, and will try with the --softwareudio switch...

Wish me luck!

Edit: it seems to work! I finally made it into the ruins in Act2 and played straight for 2 hours with no problem, even the audio crackle tha happened every now and then disappeared... I'm enjoying the game again!

I am getting BSOD relating to sound only when PoE is open and I alt tab to check Steam or watch youtube, instant BSOD?

What do you need me to post for troubleshooting please.

I' m getting application crash each time I'm trying to enter chamber of sins.
Nither --softwareaudio nor --nosound helps.
Have Realtek HD audio, Win-7 x86, russian version, so the crash info is in russian. if google translate does not help, I may switch windows language to english and give you the crash info again. I've marked exception code and offset, hope this helps

Сигнатура проблемы:
Имя события проблемы: APPCRASH
Имя приложения: Client.exe
Версия приложения: 0.0.0.0
Отметка времени приложения: 514bac89
Имя модуля с ошибкой: Client.exe
Версия модуля с ошибкой: 0.0.0.0
Отметка времени модуля с ошибкой: 514bac89
Код исключения: c0000005 -- this is the exception code
Смещение исключения: 0027fde6 -- this is the exception offset
Версия ОС: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Код языка: 1058
Дополнительные сведения 1: 0a9e
Дополнительные сведения 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Дополнительные сведения 3: 0a9e
Дополнительные сведения 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Ознакомьтесь с заявлением о конфиденциальности в Интернете:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0419

Если заявление о конфиденциальности в Интернете недоступно, ознакомьтесь с его локальным вариантом:
C:\Windows\system32\ru-RU\erofflps.txt

I want to report that when I first started playing, my game was unplayable. My computer would BSOD a few minutes after joining the game.

Fortunately, I found this thread pretty quickly. I have a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum. The "--softwareaudio" workaround has enabled me to play for several days with no crashing.

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Eincrou wrote:

I want to report that when I first started playing, my game was unplayable. My computer would BSOD a few minutes after joining the game.

Fortunately, I found this thread pretty quickly. I have a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum. The "--softwareaudio" workaround has enabled me to play for several days with no crashing.

Unfortunately, that makes the audio absolutely shit...

Another BSOD not youtube related this time just happened while checking my stash.

The content source <csc://{S-1-5-21-4196436366-1302061466-2721083130-1000}/> cannot be accessed.

Context: Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details:
(HRESULT : 0x80004005) (0x80004005)

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Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Search
Date: 29/03/2013 11:20:16 AM
Event ID: 3036
Task Category: Gatherer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ERROR_1024
Description:
The content source <csc://{S-1-5-21-4196436366-1302061466-2721083130-1000}/> cannot be accessed.

Context: Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details:
(HRESULT : 0x80004005) (0x80004005)

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Search" Guid="{CA4E628D-8567-4896-AB6B-835B221F373F}" EventSourceName="Windows Search Service" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32768">3036</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>3</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-03-29T03:20:16.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>24284</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>ERROR_1024</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="ExtraInfo">

Context: Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details:
(HRESULT : 0x80004005) (0x80004005)
</Data>
<Data Name="URL">csc://{S-1-5-21-4196436366-1302061466-2721083130-1000}/</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

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For me I only play HC and I am now worried that it will BSOD while I am aggroed and I will die? What happens in that case do I just write the char off or is it taken care of by GGG?

Kind regards,
Delu

UPDATE : AFTER INSTALL LATEST CREATIVE SOUND DRIVER, NO MORE BSOD, I test and test and no more BSOD, so if you get alot BSOD, find your creative latest driver from creative driver website and uninstall the currently sound drive and install latest sound drive that you just download. It will pernantly fix your problem.

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iamimmortal wrote:

UPDATE : AFTER INSTALL LATEST CREATIVE SOUND DRIVER, NO MORE BSOD, I test and test and no more BSOD, so if you get alot BSOD, find your creative latest driver from creative driver website and uninstall the currently sound drive and install latest sound drive that you just download. It will pernantly fix your problem.

I'll take this an an April Fool's joke because the latest driver DOESN'T HELP AT ALL! Still BSOD in the same way. And the lazy or clueless devs continue to blame Creative when theirs is the only game I own out of hundreds that has this problem. Well, I've had enough. I've been hoping over the past couple of MONTHS that this issue would get fixed, but its obvious it never will.

Crappy software audio is not a solution. I'll be sticking with Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2. Nice try guys, but you blew it.

Love this game!! But would be nice to play it more than 10 mins. I have done everything you guys listed to help solve the issue. It hasn't worked. I really hope you guys figure it out soon.

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ElektroDragon wrote:

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iamimmortal wrote:

UPDATE : AFTER INSTALL LATEST CREATIVE SOUND DRIVER, NO MORE BSOD, I test and test and no more BSOD, so if you get alot BSOD, find your creative latest driver from creative driver website and uninstall the currently sound drive and install latest sound drive that you just download. It will pernantly fix your problem.

I'll take this an an April Fool's joke because the latest driver DOESN'T HELP AT ALL! Still BSOD in the same way. And the lazy or clueless devs continue to blame Creative when theirs is the only game I own out of hundreds that has this problem. Well, I've had enough. I've been hoping over the past couple of MONTHS that this issue would get fixed, but its obvious it never will.

Crappy software audio is not a solution. I'll be sticking with Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2. Nice try guys, but you blew it.

its not april fool joke, its actually quit BSOD for about 2 day until I take break for few day. I dont know if the game just got update or not, but I recentlly get alot BSOD lately too. Imma quit play for a while.