Hello again! I'm pleased to report that after a full reinstall of my PC, the game finally runs without issues (so far, at least, but it's far enough to save so that's a good step). Thanks again for all the troubleshooting help you offered!
Please disable "Origin in Game" if it is enabled and test.
Also, we need to know what exactly is responsible for the blue screen crash.
Download "WhoCrashed" and run the program. > Click on "Analyze" > Scroll down and save everything after "Crash Dump Analysis" into a text file and load that text file up like the DxDiag.
After that run SFC /scannow and post the final massage after it has finished.
Since I bought the game on Steam, there is no Origin integration whatsoever. I did still look through the settings, and have tried disabling the Steam overlay (Steam's equivalent of Origin in-game) with no effect.
Attaching the WhoCrashed results, and the results of sfc / scannow read:
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time. Beginning verification phase of system scan. Verification 100% complete. Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
@Woebin wrote:
Since I bought the game on Steam, there is no Origin integration whatsoever. I did still look through the settings, and have tried disabling the Steam overlay (Steam's equivalent of Origin in-game) with no effect.
Sorry about that, somehow I was at ME3 in my mind. Good thinking though, to disable the steam overly.
I assume the the Windows Anniversary Update was installed before you bought ME2?
Is that a update or a fresh installed version of the Windows Anniversary Update?
The WhoCrashed.txt indicates a problem with your Graphic driver. I would suggest that you try to install driver 368.81 from Nvidia.
The 368.81 driver is WDDM 2.0 while anything above is WDDM 2.1
- Use DDU in save mode.
After reboot:
- shut down any not necessary programs in the background.
- if your GPU is overlocked set it back to the factory clocks.
- shout down any and all system monitoring programs and any overlooking tools you might have.
- shut down your virus scanner.
- install the driver only from the Exe, don't use GeForce experience.
- use the custom installation and only install the components you need. Make sure you select the PhysX System Software. (don't deselect components you need, the installation program will uninstall them if you do)
- always preform a clean installation. (if you have profiles for games, back them up using "NVIDIA inspector")
Okay, if I'm understanding that correctly your suggestion is to roll back to a previous version of my graphics drivers, correct? Would doing so through these means overwrite my current drivers or will they be installed side by side with the ones I have? I'd like to play the game, but it's not worth rolling back to me since that's likely to negatively affect other games.
First you said you installed "legacy PhysX drivers". Did you installed the normal PhysX System Software from Nvidia in the meantime?
If not uninstall the legacy PhysX from the Windows control panel > reboot > install the PhysX Software from the link > test.
Second, did you saw the two questions I asked?
@Woebin wrote:
Okay, if I'm understanding that correctly your suggestion is to roll back to a previous version of my graphics drivers, correct? Would doing so through these means overwrite my current drivers or will they be installed side by side with the ones I have? I'd like to play the game, but it's not worth rolling back to me since that's likely to negatively affect other games.
It would delate the current driver and install the older one, but if you don't play a game that has a driver check in place (like BF1) there should be no negative affects on other games.
(if you do play such a game let me know, there are easy ways to bypass this driver check.)
I know that users are told to always update the Graphic Driver, but the simple truth is, and I now that because of over 20 years in the IT business, that lots of people "updating" themselves into problems at one point. That doesn't mean that you should stay on the same Graphic Driver forever, but if you have a problem you should roll back to test if the problem is solved on the older driver.
Furthermore, the effect of Game ready drivers are overrated in most cases, there are exceptions, but most of the time it makes not much difference.
Or in other words, "Never change a running system" is still a very good idea.
The situation in the moment is that we have a major feature update from MS (the AU), that changes the WDDM of Windows. All major GPU manufactures have some problems with this new Windows Display Driver Model, and it will take some time until it is fully optimized.
Besides that, the Anniversary Update has some problems on its own, especially if it is an update and not a fresh installation.
