Me too. Playing with MIN lighting and no shadows as a workaround until SOMEONE SOMEWHERE OUTTHERE FIXES THIS!
Using an AMD Radeon HD 6850.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Crashes/HERE-ARE-CRASH-SOLUTION-s/m-p/732598#M3632
Whoever was involved in making this game should hang their head in shame. Being an actual IT professional this is a complete disgrace to something labeled as "Professional". I have similar issues where it goes black and then just crashes the computer completely and then I have to hard reboot. No fix found for myself yet. Hope someone does though.
I hope every day for a fix, so I can finally play the game I paid for. And they should fix the blue grid shining through... Like you see in my video.
It looks like these problems are mainly with ATI Radeon?
EDIT: why isn't there still a fix? Because this is their priority: http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/590051/1/1/100/simcity-modders-vinden-super-debug-mode.html
this BSOD is a problem with the games software, from what i can tell, varyations in the time before the BSOD is differentiated by the graphics cards ability. From what I have seen and what i know of programming, im guessing somewhere in their code its overloading a function for display and audio (in many BSOD cases the audio freezes or repeats). from what i can tell, my systems still running, it just forces the graphics card and auido to crash. ive even run it in the lowest end settings and highest end settings using EVGA's Precision X software, runs fine in either untill whatever function is called then crashes.
EA's admins probably planned this and are laughing their heads off, if they do make a 'patch' to fix a BSOD they shouldn't use 'fixed crash' but 'fixed BSOD error' instead, so those of us suffering from this problem dont get our hopes up.
Yea. It is happening to a lot of us but not nearly enough for them to actually care. I think I am done wishing for a fix. I just want my money back now. You can't ignore people for too long before they give up. This game came out on the 5th and this problem is still happening with no goddamn word from anyone. I am done waiting.
