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BSODs playing GTA IV - No Sound (Sound Card) & Laggy Video!
Been having major issues playing GTA IV.
First, the sound kept getting cut during gaming. When I exited the game, there was no sound in Windows either. I had to reboot to get sound but after a couple of minutes, the sound cut off again and I wasn't even gaming then. Video playback became really laggy (YouTube played videos as if in slow motion) and there was no sound.
I had to reboot the PC several times. Unisntalled sound card (through Device Manager) and then reinstalled it as well as the latest drivers. Still had same issue when I tried playing GTA IV.
Today, I got consecutive BSODs while playing GTA IV. I've had several issues with GTA IV like missing textures, no sound, freezing (at loading screens), CTD (crash to desktop) etc. Tried reinstalling the game several times from scratch and even tried different hard drive but none of them work(ed).
I'm playing GTA IV heavily modded (Gionight ENB mod with several custom cars/weapons etc.) but my computer is a beast and it should be able to handle it easily.
My specs:
CPU: i7 990X
Mainboard: Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Memory: 12GB Corsair Domintar 1600MHz
Hard Drive: 32GB SLC SSD x2 (RAID-0)
Video: EVGA GTX-580 3GB Tri-SLI
Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium HD
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 1200W
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
The first BSOD was STOP code 0x124 and that was with stock clocks for the GPU. The second BSOD was STOP code 0x1000007e and that was with GPUs OC'd to 850MHz.
Have not had BSOD problems in many months (previous times were related to faulty GPU; returned it and got a new one as replacement).
Also, yesterday, I noticed that the Event Viewer showed the 'nvlddmkm' to have generated over 1000 errors in about TWO (2) minutes! So I reinstalled the GPU drivers (WHQL 280.26) and actually did it twice since GTA IV just crashed and I had to hard-reboot to get it working again.
I've attached the minidumps and the Perfmon report.
Please let me know what I should do to fix this.
Thanks.