I am running Vista Home Premium - Norwegian
Avast 4.8 Home Edition
I just got my GTA4 disc and tried to install it. I put my disc in and when my DVD player started to read the disc i got a bluescreen of death of some file called something like fltmgr.sys and to be able to come back into my pc i had to remove the disc. With the disc in it kept giving me blue screen. When i restarted Vista without the disc in Vista looked up a solution. It was my antivirus. I updated it. It didnt help. Still the same Blue screen.
So I uninstalled Avast and tried. Bingo it runs now.
Can you please test this scenario and fix this? I really love Avast and do not want to go looking for a replacement.
For the bluescreen, there should be a minidump file (with the corresponding timestamp) created in Windows\Minidump folder.
Can you upload it to our FTP? ftp://ftp.avast.com/incoming
Thanks.
What is the exact build of avast! you have installed, btw? (e.g. 4.8.1296)
Oh. I just downloaded the latest build of 4.8 Home Norwegian. Cannot remember the number i am sorry. But it didnt give me any more update possibilities.
I think I uploaded the file now. I called it: GomerPyleBlueScreen.dmp
Hello, would it be possible to generate memory dump instead of minidump, compress this huge file and upload it to our FTP (ftp://ftp.avast.com/incoming)? Thanks.
For a full memory dump to be created, several conditions have to be met - e.g. the pagefile has to be bigger than the RAM size, the pagefile has to be on the system partition, etc…
(So, if the option is not available in the settings dialog, I don’t think modifying registry directly will help.)
Hello again, I think one of your driver is not fully compatible with Vista. Could you please try something to test it? Just set “Start=4” in “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\sonypvl2” key. This driver belongs to “Sony DVD Handycam”, it was built in 2003 and I guess it makes a problem. Please let me know if it helps. Thanks! Petr
Atleast i think it was that driver. But I did a complete reinstall of my PC last night. And so far I got most standard programs i use up and running and avast. Putting the GTA4 disc in did not crash me now.
Thanks for your help even if it was not your product in the first place…
Anyway, I’d like to know what version of Sony DVD Handycam software you installed so I can test it on my computer to be sure this driver doesn’t work well with our drivers - and I could make a workaround for this situation with other 3rd party drivers. I’ve found Vista version of this software on Sony website, but according to sonypvl2.sys timestamp (2003) I’m not sure you really used this version. Is it possible to upload installation package on our ftp?
I googled for “Sony DVD203e driver vista” and the result showed me a link that said it was compatible with vista. When i ran the install i ran the installer in xp compability mode. Which was probably a bad idea. hehe
I have uploaded it as a zip file named dvd_usbdrven.zip
I didnt even realize i had that driver installed anymore. Had given up finding a vista driver for my cam.
Running the latest avast! on Vista x64 with all drivers fully updated and i noticed no incompatibilities with Gta IV. The game starts just fine. However this is the most shittiest game release i have ever come across in my life. It runs terrible on pc’s, all sorts of problems and glitches. Even Crysis ran better than this when it came out. Being a huge fan of the Gta series i was really looking forward to this game but in the state it is now it’s totally unplayable for me and i already returned the game to my store. I am truly disappointed with Rockstar Games and i’ll probably never buy anything from them again.
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