Crash to blue screen!

[bf649ztp]

This only happens with Ryzom and not very often, but is still a bit worrying. when loading the game I get a black screen and after a while crashes to a blue screen, stating that the graphics are stuck in an infinite loop etc. Should I carry on regaurdless, or is there something simple I can do to fix it. Or should I contact the company that built my machine?

System:

AMD Athlon 4800 Dual core.
2Gb Ram
2x Nvidia Geforce XFX 7900GT in SLI
Creative X-fi Fatal1ty pro sound card

[sprite]

Having been the victim of this problem before, I can safely say that the "infinite loop error" blue screen is about the most useless error message microsoft included because it can point to virtually anything

Things to look at might be (vaguely in order)
Graphics card problems
Faulty RAM
Failing Power Supply

For me it was a combination of GFX and RAM causing windows to get corrupted

[Zerlin]

One other thing to try is to use Direct3D mode. We have found that the 9x.xx series of nVidia drivers and OpenGL in Ryzom do not like each other that much.

Go to http://www.memtest.org and download a copy of memtest to make sure that your RAM is not starting to fail.

A power supply that is starting to fail is usually the last thing diagnosed as the errors always look like other bits of hardware are failing. Ryzom may be forcing the video hardware to push the PSU just over the edge.

[bf649ztp]

Yeah, I thought at the start that for 2 256mb cards you should have about a 500w+ PSU. The one I have is only about a 420W Tagan PSU. Maybe I should have thought it out loud, and got a bigger one put in.

Thanks for the advice.