Games Stopped Working at Splash Screen

I just brought the CPU back down to 3.1GHz and I still am getting the same issues.

I also agree the problem seems to be with the ATi driver but I have done a complete reinstall of the drivers etc. so I can't see why that would be a problem? But everything seems to be pointing towards that?

My head is hurting, I'm going to bed for now will resume this tomorrow afternoon.

One more thing, I did a SFC Scan and found errors it couldn't fix, I have attached the log, maybe that may help shed some light. My analysis of it, after searching for "cannot repair" 4 came up all with the UIautomationcore.dll file. Now this may be normal, it may not, once again my technical knowledge stops there. Maybe you may have some thoughts on this?

Regards

Ok, So I went for the display driver approach. I completely removed all my current display drivers and software, restarted in safe mode ran driver sweeper and removed all the remaining files.

I downloaded ATi 11.2, which is the driver package used back at the beginning of the year, because this is when I knew my games worked perfectly, so my theory was if they ran with these drivers then they should run now with those drivers.

This has failed, I have the same problem even with well out dated drivers that I knew worked before.

So I don't think it is the display drivers specifically.

When in the menu to select safe mode, I noticed I had a windows memory diagnostic tool, so I have also given that a run and it passed all tests. (not really sure what it was testing).

I have also uninstalled drivers for my gamepad as that has been installed recently, so has my mouse but have decided to leave that alone as I need it at the moment.

In all of my minidumps I have :- ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for ntdll.dll, not sure if this is significant?

going to and cry now

Hi Seth,

Ran it only a couple of times, will give it more.

That file shows up in the log I attatched in the above post. I can find it on my pc, I think I deleted it and it came back after a reboot with a padlock next to it. I can't check for sure at the moment as I am running memtest86+ at the moment to eliminate bad memory sticks.

When that is done I shall give sfc /scan a few more tries.

Thanks Seth, your being a great help.

UIAutomationCore.dll is in system32 and FSX folder.

I ran Memtest86 and it passed with no errors found.

Is chkdsk different to sfc /scannow? and if it is would it be worth running that? and how?

also if I enter the screen where I can select safemode on boot up, I have options to run windows repair etc? If i run a repair will I lose any data?

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.

Just to let you know there is a small padlock next to the UIAutomationCore.dll in system32, not sure if that makes a difference.

@Wishmaster So far all the burn in tests and the memtests have not produced any errors, plus I'm not getting any crashes any other times, so hopefully it isn't a hardware fault.

I have tried to re-install direct x 11, however the installer from the microsoft site will not overwrite the one on my system as it is the most up to date.

I will continue with a chkdsk and and possible try it in safemode, along with another go at sfc /scannow in sfaemode.

I have 3 HDD, the windows operating system is on a 60GB SSD, I'm assuming I just check that disk, see as that has the system files on it?

Cheers for your help