Amnesia Blue Screens My PC

**plutomaniac** · 12-30-2011, 04:42 PM

I need to know the exact BSOD error. Go to C:\Windows\Minidump and give me the latest file from there to examine it and tell you what problem you have.

**RawkBandMan** · 12-30-2011, 06:51 PM

I just BSOD again (trying it again by accident) and I wrote down the code if that would work?

STOP 0x0000008E(0xC0000005, 0X8452B078, 0XaEC99B54, 0x00000000)

Defected RAM? What's that supposed to mean?

**Your Computer** · 12-30-2011, 07:02 PM

I wouldn't say the RAM is defective, or else i'd expect you to be crashing in just about everything, not just Amnesia. Nevertheless, i wouldn't entirely disregard hardware failure. My guess is Amnesia is trying to access a system file that got corrupted somehow. You could probably fix it with a restore point some time before the date this all occurred. If the blue screen starts to "migrate" into other programs, then i'd start considering hardware failure.

**Fomzo** · 12-30-2011, 07:40 PM

If nothing helps, reinstall the system Smile

I had to to that quite recently in order to banish the YouTube blue screens...

**RawkBandMan** · 12-30-2011, 09:48 PM

Amnesia is the ONLY thing that is crashing. I've tested most of my programs on my PC, and I haven't had problems with them. Also, this is a old PC (Built by Dell (Dell... What a piece of-) in like 2005, so it's a wonder it can run anything!) so I've been thinking of buying a new one, that isn't nescessarily a gaming PC, but will be able to run my games that I have at decent FPS (With Decent, I qualify 40 FPS and above Decent) and at medium settings. I don't expect to get it soon, (maybe in a year or so) so until then, I guess I could live with no Amnesia... I still have a plentiful of other games to play.

As for reinstalling my PC, I would have to wait until something like a HDD failure or something like that for a restore to happen, because one program isn't enough for me to have to restore it.

Would buying a new HDD count as restoring? Because the one I currently have is fairly small... (400 GB with 100GB free space, if anyone is wondering.)

**plutomaniac** · 12-30-2011, 10:10 PM

I really need the crash minidump found under C:\Windows\Minidump directory to help you effectively. Can you attach it here?

**RawkBandMan** · 12-31-2011, 11:53 PM

Okay. Here it is

http://www.mediafire.com/?4w5b00l3e8kaj5k

**plutomaniac** · 01-01-2012, 08:22 AM

The BSOD is caused by the file ctaud2k.sys which is part of Creative Audio Driver (WDM). Make sure you update your audio drivers.

**RawkBandMan** · 01-02-2012, 02:21 AM

I will repair my audio drivers, and if that doesn't work, I'll update as soon as I get the chance!

**plutomaniac** · 01-02-2012, 02:33 AM

I must be that. Either way, let us know. Smile