(03-29-2012, 09:47 PM)LordVador Wrote:Quote:I've tried everything I could think of based on forum answers where people experience a GSOD in other situations, and I've spent a few hours turning on and off various graphics settings with no luck.
Have you tried with LLE? What else have you tried?
The game won't run with LLE. I checked my dsp_rom dump, and it is fine, but the game crashes immediately when I load a save state and have LLE enabled.
I tried turning on and off, or otherwise readjusting the following, all not in fullscreen mode. The result was either GSOD at the same point in the game, or the game would crash wile loading.
From the config menu:
Enable Dual Core
Enable Idle Skipping
CPU Emulator Engine (all three settings)
Lock THreads to Cores
LLE and HLE (as mentioned above)
Enable DTK Music
DSP LLE on Thread
Audio Backend: No audio output
From the Graphics menu:
Internal Resolution (set lowest possilbe)
Anti-Aliasing: Tried several options
Anisotropic Filtering: Tried several options
Scaled EFB Copy
Per-Pixel Lighting
Force Texture Filtering
Skip EFB Access from CPU
EFB Copies: All combinations tried
External Frame Buffer: All combinations tried
Other Hacks (e.g. Fast Mipmaps, etc.): Turned on one at a time
There are a few other settings I messed around with, but this is pretty much what I tried so far. I also tried going back and working from different save states, but still no luck.
I had a GSOD before with the howl stones, but I was able to get around it by disabling the audio. So far, that hasn't worked in this situation.
(03-30-2012, 01:04 AM)haddockd Wrote: You do realize that the TDP for i5 processors (if memory servers) is around 72 degrees C right? if you are idle at 60...you have an issue so you may want to look into the heat problem. Getting your CPU to 90 degrees C is not a good thing. I may be wrong on this...but I doubt it.
I overclocked mine to 4.5 GHz and at max load (99% on all 4 cores) it never goes about 58 degrees C on the hottest core (which is always core 3 for some reason)
Thanks for the concern. I have an i7 with a TDP of 45W. My first trip point isn't until 98C (the second is at 103C). I got it slightly over 90C doing some intensive computations with Fortran. When I realized it, I killed the process immediately, but I don't think anything got cooked. That was over a year ago, and everything seems fine.