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FTL crashes my video card drivers.

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:50 pm
by ChickenWing
Hey all, I couldn't find a resolution to this on any of the support websites yet, so here I am.

I bought FTL two days ago. Enjoyed the crap out of it the first day, started running into problems the second day. When I ran it, I'd get strange artifacting on my second display. After a while, the game full-on lost any coherent display (game was running in my main monitor)). Closed it, re-started, and my graphics driver crashed and had to restart. FTL locked up as well. Restarted my computer, ran it again, and then it gave Windows an error that I have never seen before - which is exceedingly strange, as I work in tech support. According to my error log, my Local Security Authority service stopped working, which caused windows to have to restart itself. I left the computer alone for a little while after this, then came back to try again. After this point, all I got was an "OpenGL - too many errors" error at some point during the loading process, and that's progressed until today.

TL;DR

1) Artifacting on my second monitor
2) Video card driver crashing
3) Windows LiveKernelEvent error
4) OpenGL - too many errors

I have:

1) Updated my graphics card drivers - newest nVidia GeForce GTX560 drivers
2) Run memory diagnostics - two and a half passes of Memtest86+, no errors
3) checked my GPU temperatures - ~40 degrees Celsius idle, ~60 with medium load.

I will be running a full system diagnostic for the next little while. In the meantime, any help you folks could give me would be wicked.

Re: FTL crashes my video card drivers.

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:04 pm
by ChickenWing
Alright, so my system diagnostic came back fine (Eurosoft PCCheck). My last test is going to be a 3dMark loop overnight, but at this point I think I've ruled out a hardware issue.

Any thoughts? My next step is a re-OS, but I'd love to be dissuaded from that path.

Re: FTL crashes my video card drivers.

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:40 pm
by gASK
I am experiencing the same issue. So far it cost me two games (and I have only been playing for a few hours).

What happens is that all of a sudden, the screen turns black and when it comes back online five seconds later, FTL is gone (crashed I guess) and system informs me that graphic drivers have crashed.

It does not happen in any other game or software. My laptop runs cleanly for most of the time.

I have the latest drivers.

I have a "Mobile Intel(r) 4 Series Express Chipset Family" graphic card according to my system.

This error is pretty annoying especially considering that I lose my progress when that happens.

Any and all advice would be welcome.

Re: FTL crashes my video card drivers.

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:53 pm
by ChickenWing
It actually seems to have un-hosed itself for me. I played for about an hour last night with no issues, after going through a couple of the steps listed at this site:

http://crashfixes.com/ftl-crash-fix-and ... -no-sound/

Also, my computer was running idle after finishing diags for quite a while that day, which I've noticed tends to chill it out when it's having issues.