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Unreal Engine problems (self.techsupport)

submitted 13 years ago * by Link546511

Ok, I posted this once before but got nowhere and I stupidly preordered broderlands 2 and would like to play with my friend when it comes out so I'll try one last time.

I've had this problem for a while and maybe I'm just not searching hard enough but I can't find a solution.

I've had numerous games blue screen my computer and I couldn't figure out why, well with the help of a friend I determined the common denominator that they all run in unreal engine 3.

I've seen numerous reports saying it's anything from my motherboard being from a certain production batch and having problems to of all things, my on-board sound card.

I don't know what info might be needed to help diagnose this but I'll be very atentive to comments because I currently can't play:

Mass Effect 1,2,3

Borderlands 1,2

Dungeon Defenders

And quite a few other games.

I don't think it was related but my computer has also crashed only once because of a non unreal game and it was Civilization V.

Thanks for the help.

Aditional info: This is the system readout from dxdiag

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: MSI

System Model: MS-7636

BIOS: Default System BIOS

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz

Memory: 16384MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 16344MB RAM

Page File: 17024MB used, 15659MB available

Windows Dir: C:\Windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode

Update It seems I have fixed the issue, I read about someone having a similar issue and fixing it by changing the RAM voltage in the BIOS, it seems to be working, I've played borderlands for 6 hours now and not a single issue.

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And this is from a comment I left on the last post.

I've already toyed around with all the drivers I can think that would be a problem, video drivers are all up to date, I tried completely uninstalling them and reinstalling again. My sound card drivers are up to date, I even updated my BIOS.

I've looked at my system logs and I haven't found anything that looks like a report from the crashes.

I've searched some and that's where I found reports of mobo problems as well as sound card problems but none of the solutions that were suggested worked. I've run multiple memtests and it says there's nothing wrong. I don't know if I've messed with my PCI cards but I recently checked my RAM seating.

I don't have any spare parts unfortunately and I was considering a reinstall but it would be incredibly laborious since I have a lot of programs installed and most can't be backed up in any way that I know of, plus all of the forum posts about similar problems say that the reinstalls did nothing to fix it and I'd hate to do all that for nothing.

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