Bsod

[Ak0 0]

Hey everyone,

after a while i have reinstalled ofp:res for a bit of gaming, but this happend the first time i loaded it up. After about a min of flying about in a chopper im displayed a lovely BSOD.

At the bottom of the bsod it lists the cause from driver, ctaud2k.sys

All my other games run fine and this is the first bsod ive had in AGES! so it must be something specific to ofp..

Hopefully someone will have an idea on a fix for this

My system...

asus A7V333

xp 2200+

512MB DDR

gf4 ti4600

sound blaster live 5.1 digital

[Greg 0]

Hi, Sorry to disappoint you on your first post to this forum.  You have just experienced the joy of owning OFP and a Creative SoundBlaster Live.  The problem you experience is related to the SoundBlaster drivers and the sound played by the 'shilka' anti-aircraft gun that shot at your chopper.  It is 100% reproducable and BIS are not interested in fixing it.  Neither are CreativeLabs.  Both can share the blame since it occurs in no other game and on no other hardware/software combination.  Do a search on blue screen crashes, shilka, sound blaster and you will see many similar posts.  Unfortunately the search engine of this forum is pathetic.  I couldn't even find some of my own posts when searching with exact words and phrases that I have a copy of.  I had hoped to send you a link with possible solutions.  You can pretty much do these things:

o Use a really old SBLive driver (and enjoy those bugs).

o Turn on Hardware Acceleration from within the OFP game. (and enjoy the distortion).

o Don't use the SoundBlaster, use onboard Audio or other.

o Don't play OFP.

Pretty sad options really.

[blackdog~ 0]

Hi, Sorry to disappoint you on your first post to this forum.  You have just experienced the joy of owning OFP and a Creative SoundBlaster Live.  The problem you experience is related to the SoundBlaster drivers and the sound played by the 'shilka' anti-aircraft gun that shot at your chopper.  It is 100% reproducable and BIS are not interested in fixing it.  Neither are CreativeLabs.  Both can share the blame since it occurs in no other game and on no other hardware/software combination.  Do a search on blue screen crashes, shilka, sound blaster and you will see many similar posts.  Unfortunately the search engine of this forum is pathetic.  I couldn't even find some of my own posts when searching with exact words and phrases that I have a copy of.  I had hoped to send you a link with possible solutions.  You can pretty much do these things:

o Use a really old SBLive driver (and enjoy those bugs).

o Turn on Hardware Acceleration from within the OFP game. (and enjoy the distortion).

o Don't use the SoundBlaster, use onboard Audio or other.

o Don't play OFP.

Pretty sad options really.

I was going to say something similar to this, to just say to go out and buy a new card, but since you confirmed it, I have had this problem too.

It just shuts off completely and gives the BSOD, but as soon as I bought a new Sound Blaster Audigy 2, it has never screwed up since.

[Ak0 0]

ahhh good game creative / BIS

good to see companies caring about their users... [/sarcasm]

i dont realy feel like buyin a new sound card atm, nor can i be bothered messing with sound hw acceleration for each time i play..

oh well looks like ofp will be uninstalled for now :/

[Ako 0]

damn it, this was account i was supposed to use..

i used to play ofp a lot and i remember updating drivers and getting the same problem, but i just stopped playing and didnt ask for help, i was hoping that there would be a fix by now!

[Ako 0]

no1 with any sort of work around?

[Guest BratZ]

The joy of owning a SBlive and certainly OFP is far from the only game with SBLive glitches(BF1942 has massive slowdown for sblive users many had to disable sound to get performance),I gave my sblive to my son and use my onboards cmi sound,its ok

I just use headphones anyways