After all these years I've decided to give SCII a shot. The problem is that I'm having blue screen and random crashes during the first 5 minutes of game... I have no problem with that playing SC:BW, Battlerit or even Overwatch but when I try playing HOTS/SCII I get freeze, strange noises from CPU and game crashes/blue screen appears.

The setup I run is : Intel Core i5-240M 2.60 Ghz
Intel HD Graphics 3000
nVidia GeForce GT540M
Windows 7

I have no idea what the problem can be, anyone have any solutions? Or what should I try to avoid it !?!

Edit : Seems like it's the same problem as listed here : us.battle.net

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

November 19 2016 22:36 GMT

That sounds like my laptop lol. Did you disable the intel HD graphics so that only Nvidia ones are working? From my experience, I had no problems running the game in any of its iteration (LoTV is slowest though but laptop has aged).

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

November 20 2016 04:29 GMT

It's just the BW gods are saving you from SCII

739

Bearded Elder29904 Posts

November 20 2016 06:37 GMT

On November 20 2016 07:36 BigFan wrote:
That sounds like my laptop lol. Did you disable the intel HD graphics so that only Nvidia ones are working? From my experience, I had no problems running the game in any of its iteration (LoTV is slowest though but laptop has aged).

Yeah I did.
I've also updated Windows / nVidia drivers / disabled all programs running in the background and nothing worked. Ran as administrator as well. When I start campaign the game just dies / freezes / crashes / bluescreens after 5 minutes of playing...

This happens only in Heroes Of the Storm and SCII, all other games works fine.

739

Bearded Elder29904 Posts

November 20 2016 10:41 GMT

I went do default nVidia settings.
Changed everything to low in SC2 options.

Now I'm running into Display Driver stopped working and has recovered and game dies.

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

November 21 2016 06:47 GMT

Moved this to tech support. Would get more advice there. Do you know what your gpu temps are like? Other option is to try and reinstall the games again but that's the long way lol.

739

Bearded Elder29904 Posts

November 21 2016 16:02 GMT

Reinstalling doesn't work, I already did that couple of times.
Also overheating is not an option, I've checked that as well.

Tried using older nVidia drivers as someone recommended on Blizz forums but that didn't help. I have no idea on what's going on but that makes me pretty sad, I wanted to play SC2 after all that time but I can't :<

Also I've resetted nVidia settings to default to avoid any kind of overclocking and stuff - still didn't help...

Bastinian

Serbia177 Posts

November 23 2016 20:12 GMT

My friend also has this problem, and he's got brand new PC. We haven't found solution since he gave up on it...

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

November 23 2016 23:30 GMT

On November 22 2016 01:02 739 wrote:
Reinstalling doesn't work, I already did that couple of times.
Also overheating is not an option, I've checked that as well.

Tried using older nVidia drivers as someone recommended on Blizz forums but that didn't help. I have no idea on what's going on but that makes me pretty sad, I wanted to play SC2 after all that time but I can't :<

Also I've resetted nVidia settings to default to avoid any kind of overclocking and stuff - still didn't help...

ya, that's pretty odd. Do you have any other comps around, even an older one that you can try for the sake of seeing if it works or not?

junkdrop

26 Posts

November 25 2016 13:22 GMT

#10

launch the game in 32 bit mode

739

Bearded Elder29904 Posts

November 25 2016 19:00 GMT

#11

On November 24 2016 08:30 BigFan wrote:

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ya, that's pretty odd. Do you have any other comps around, even an older one that you can try for the sake of seeing if it works or not?

I do. Works perfectly fine.

739

Bearded Elder29904 Posts

November 27 2016 08:07 GMT

#12

So, no help so far?

What I've did so far :
Uninstall / Installed Starcraft II
Uninstalled / Installed oldest / newest GFX drivers / DirectX
Tried running as Administrator
Tried running on 32 bit
Set everything on low
Tried creating some registry entry as someone suggest on blizz forums
CPU is not overheating
GFX is not overclocked

Did everything what was suggested on Blizzard forums and google'd some other stuff and nothing helped.

From having screen freezing into bluescreen I got SC2 freeze into Display driver stoppped working but has recovered error. Still can't play this game for shit. I know it's because of nVidia graphic card but holy jesus, people been complaining about this error for over than 3 years and we still have no solution? Can't believe it.

Or maybe he's overheating? ;;

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Edit : Just cleaned the fan, got temperature drop to 63-65 degrees and nothing changed. SC2 still freezes and u can hear the sound of a machine-gun alike in the background.

ZeromuS

Canada13407 Posts

November 28 2016 01:46 GMT

#13

Have you run the app that tells you if its using the dedicated vcard?

739

Bearded Elder29904 Posts

February 15 2017 17:03 GMT

#14

I'm sorry I'm bumping this but I gave up.

Can't play any single game, SC2, DotA2 or HOTS. Same story everytime, computer freezes after I launch the game with the "bzzz" sound in the background and I can't do anything except resetting.

Any ideas?

Edit : Before some pop-up appeared "Display Driver Nvidia Windows Kernel Mode Driver has stopped working but has recovered."

Edit2 : nVidia Inspector SS

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