I get a "Fatal Video Card Error" and the BSOD when loading a flight in FSX - happens while loading the terrain, textures, etc. Have only tried the PMDG 737 NGX. Everything worked great until I purchased and installed Opus last night. It is configured to the letter per the Opus guide, and setup through the .xml to load automatically in the <load addon> portion of the script. Using default FSX textures until i get the Danny Glover textures uploaded.

 

System:

Asus Maximus IV Extreme -Z mobo, latest bios

Intel Core i7 2600K @ 5.26GHz

32Gb DDR3-1600 RAM

Win7 x64 OS on 240Gb SSD c:\

Data on 1Tb HDD d:\

FSX/Opus, etc and all addons/textures etc on 240Gb SSD f:\

ATI Radeon 6770 X 2, non-crossfire mode because of 10" touchscreen used as FMC/CDU

Saitek yoke and pedals

All latest drivers

 

Never seen this fault before. Please help.

 

Best,

 

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

I would be looking at your Overclock, memory timing etc. BSOD is a warning that your hardware is unstable.

That is one hell of an overclock you have there, 5.26 is pushing your system well over what I would call stable.

I doubt Opus would cause a BSOD, but accessing memory when you have an unstable set up can cause these crashes.You may think your CPU can handle it, but sounds like your video card cannot. You will need to set your o/clock back to default and see if you get the BSOD when you load fsx and OPUS. I am certain you may be pushing your system past what it can handle, especially your video card.

 

Regards

For some reason my post last night didn't show up, but it even happens at the stock 3.4GHz timings. Never seen this before.

uninstall opus and see if you still get the BSOD. if you do, your Video Card can not handle it.

Uninstalled Opus auto-load in fsx.xml, problem went away. Manually started Opus, worked OK. But in all honesty, was having other issues with the system. Minor glitches. This is at the stock 3.40GHz core speed, so that rules out any issues I created with the OC. Catalyst Control Center was acting really wierd and not displaying correctly, and kept showing me with 9 Radeon HD6870 cards. I have 2...

 

Went through ten colors of hell uninstalling, reinstalling drivers, running sweeper to get rid of driver remnants for 4 hours, still no joy. Finally remembered that ATI just auto updated to Catalyst 12.10 or so. Deleted that junk, reinstalled Catalyst 12.8 drivers, everything is rock steady now even at 5.26GHz and with Opus autoloading. So root cause of my issue was a new Catalyst suite of drivers that is very buggy. Went onto the AMD forum and there's many complaint posts about this type of issues and others with this new Catalyst package.

 

Kev

Thanks for the update Kev.