industrialfist

When starting a game of Doom 3, the game will not only crash, but the computer will crash and restart itself.

Help?

Regeneration

Can you turn off "Automatic Restart" and tell me what it says in the Blue screen?

Zoran Merki

I have the same problem. Its not Doom 3 but its Quake 4 and Prey (same thing happens). But they all have the same engine, right? Note: those are DEMOS not full versions of the games.

Well this is what is says on the blue screen which pops up when I try to start Prey.

STOP: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005 0xaa88f636 0xa798eaf4 0x00000000)

bla bla bla...

Lvckap.sys Adress aa88f636 base at aa880000 Datestamp 43950596


bla bla bla...

I have WinXP Pro SP2, ATI Radeon x1300 with the newest drivers, DFI intinity nforce4 motherboard, kingston 1 GB DDR 400, Athlon 64 3000+, Audigy 1 sound card.

Regeneration

Zoran Merki

Okay, thanks. I have found the soultion. Or maybe its better to say a workaround. The problem was in Logitech camera (I have Logitech Pro 5000 webcam), more precisely in camera's audio drivers for the built in microphone. Somehow this driver conflicts with the game's engine. The problem is not yet solved but there is a workaround solution which disables the microphone of the camera. Follow these steps (copy/paste from the Logitech support page):

Method 2
Rename the Audio component directory.

The following procedure will disable and prevent audio components from executing and should avoid the blue screen error.

1. Disconnect the camera from the USB port
2. Restart the computer until all startup items load
3. Go to "Start" and select "Run"
4. Type C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech
5. Click "OK"
6. Locate and rename the ?KAudp? folder to ?KAudP.old?
7. Go to "Start" select "Run and type C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers
8. Locate and rename "Lvckap.sys" to "Lvckap.old"
9. Restart the computer
10. Once restarted, reconnect the camera into the USB port
11. Test camera operations to verify the workaround was successful.

Following the steps above in method 2 will disable the microphone built in to your Quick cam video device. This is a temporary workaround solution in order to bypass a Windows blue screen error and allow video functionality. Please check back periodically for software and drivers updates that may completely address this problem and allow full audio operations.