NVidia Video Card Crash?

[Hapcamp]

I am having this same problem... crash to a white screen seemingly at random.  Plays fine for a while, then pukes out to a white screen.  Very frustrating.

Vista, Steam, NVidia 8800 GTX.

I have done all the usual, including everything described in this thread.  No change.  Any word on the issue?

[Sheepdude]

Seems to be a specific problem with that card, Hapcamp (the 8800). With my BFG Tech 8800 GTS 320MB OC, the game crashed on me every 5-30 minutes. After installing a PNY 9800 GT 1GB, I only receieved the error three more times throughout 20 hours of gameplay (to say once every six hours would be accurate). I can't offer a fix without having you swap out your video card, but it looks like anyone with a Geforce 8800 will have a hard time playing Aquaria on Steam.

[Lestaticon]

I have the same issue and I'm using a nvidia GTX260 card.

When i install my video drivers, I always do a clean install. I use Drivercleaner.net in conjunction with safe mode to make sure everything is removed.

However, I read that nvidia has been working on a new openGL driver. I think they were testing it with the unreleased 181 drivers. http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html

I may give them a try later. It would be great to find a surefire way to reproduce the problem without having to invest too much time.

[Oehr]

okay, i have the same driver crash problem using the G80 8800GTS 640MB and Vista Home Premium 64bit.
though i could only test the demo(which seems to be v1.0.0) and im not going to buy it until its fixed. even though there are lots of save points, a crash is still annoying and i stopped playing because of those...

[wizzim]

I had the same issue and, by disabling V-Sync, it seems to me that the crashes are less frequent (two 3 hours sessions without crashes for instance). 

In NVidia drivers documentation, it is written that V-Sync should be disabled for OpenGL Application under Vista.

[Oehr]

i havent disabled vsync but i played a bit with the opengl settings in rivatuner.
so far the demo didnt crash once. though i changed various settings so i dont know (yet) which change(s) made it run more stable.
my guess:
- OpenGl Hardware Acceleration Mode:  NV20 Emulation Mode (compatibility mode is too slow, nv20 is fast enough)
- Disable Support for enhanced CPU construction sets
- Force Tripple Buffering (does only matter if vsync is enabled)

various other changes:
- Compress to DXT3 instead of DXT1
- VSync: 9
- trillinear optimization
- Anisotropic mip filter optimization
- Override Intellisample trilinear filtering quality control: High quality TLF

[Lestaticon]

There's a new video driver out from Nvidia, 181.20. It's an official release. Give them a try. It appears to be a good driver.

[Oehr]

im using 185.20.
and i dont think older drivers can fix this(same problem was with 180.84) nor the absolutely completely fully useless WHQL certificate.

[antipothis]

I have discovered the issue and a fix for NVIDIA based cards.

The issue is with Driver Extension Strings. Newer versions of NVIDIA cards allow unlimited use of extension strings, and this causes issues with games using older versions of OPENGL.

To fix the issue, go into your nvidia control panel, to manage 3D settings, and set the Extension Limit option to On.

This has solved the issue for my steam copy of Aquaria. (through I also turned off v-sync as well) But based on the description of that option, I'm sure it's what's causing the issue.

[antipothis]

Urgh. Sadly, I did eventually get the error again, but this time I'm averaging about two or three hours of play (more than enough to do stuff) before I get the white screen crash. My solution seems to extend playtime though.

[Oehr]

though you lost vsync and earned page tearing... congrats.

i havent played longer than 3h, though as i said in one of my prev posts, the game seems to be running without any crashes (so far) with vsync enabled.
a bit more complicated but its worth it, aint it?

[Kein]

Which OGL version Aquaria uses? I want to limit reported version @ drivers level.

[Kein]

Hmmm...
Looks like I managed it work without crashes. Here is the solution for Vista /GTX260/182.06:

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[driitzz]

on my ATI card it used to crash at startup or the game running at 0 to 1 fps
the fix was to update my driver to the most recent one , and to enable the OpenGL triple buffering in my ATI catalyst control panel

[Onyxlight]

As it's been over a month after Kein posted a solution... I'll confirm that it's working for me so far.

Thanks Kein! I can Enjoy Aquaria again and actually get past Mithalas!