I love the guy that thinks the 50 or 60 people just on these forums with this issue, all with similar setups, all of them that are having bsods have bad hardware:)

It is an audio issue. Update your audio drivers and turn down dxdiag acceleration and it should fix the issue at least for now.

cuz bad hardware would make sense, sometimes computers just dont make sense tho. In this case it is obviously a audio issue, i cant update my audio drivers any further so this is the only fix for me now, hoping for a patch so the audio quality gets better cuz ye indoors the audio is really unbareable sometimes cuz of some generator in indoor environments that makes a sound but the bad quality makes it sound rly annoying

I've been holding off updating my Audigy 2 Zs's drivers because Creative makes it an incredible pain to get new drivers installed cleanly while preserving the functions of their applications and card features...So I'm guilty of just running the ancient setup CD that came with the card whenever I do an OS reinstall.

Last time I tried to update the drivers I got some very weird 5.1 issues. But turning down dxdiag sound acceleration hasn't eliminated my Machine_Check_Exception BSOD's so....here's hoping I can make creative and drver-cleaner to get along.

Come to think o f it .. I should probably get a new card.

I have the exact problem thou I don't get a BSOD. my game only freezes. What we can do is wait for a patch.

Even if the problem is solved by simply turning down the hardware acceleration I don't want to do that because you should not have to. When I buy a game and I see that my computer comply with the recommended specs I take for granted that the game will run smoothly without a bunch of custom settings in my computer for it to not crash or to get dialog sound when interacting with and NPC or whatever. If Bethesda or Obsidian can't fix this then it's scandal in my opinion.


Szoreny: Why buy a loose sound card when todays modern motherboards have built-in sound cards. They are just as good and you free up space in your computer if you want to for example take advantage of CrossFire or SLI.

Im running a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula with a built-in Creative X-FI MB sound card with SPDIF output and support on up to 7.1 speakers. I don't know what a sound card costs but I'm sure you save a coin or two if you use it...

While a motherboard sound chipset is decent for most people, you can definitely tell the difference between onboard Realtek and my HT Omega Striker. (Also you dont have to sacrifice Crossfire/SLI for a dedicated card, PCI has enough bandwidth for sound, and you wouldnt be running a GPU through PCI) Off topic, but still.

Hey I just mistrust onboard audio from the old days when it universally svcked.

The old socket 939 DFI Lanparty UT SLI-DR 'Expert' motherboard I'm using did indeed come with a 'Karajan Audio Module', it's basically a tiny removable pcb that completes and enables the onboard Realtec when you plug it in....I never installed it though.

Even with the Audigy and my wireless card taking up two PCI slots my PCI express's have plenty of room for two large video cards in SLI...though I'll never go SLI on this antique setup.


But it makes sense some of the new motherboards might have classier onboard equipment. I'll keep that in mind when I'm in the mood to upgrade the CPU, RAM and Motherboard.

As for New Vegas I did get the Audigy's drivers updated, while preserving the applications and functionality of the card. Creative's legacy support seems better than I remember, but it would still be a great help if they'd consolidate some of their updates.

The update combined with hardware acceleration lowered to standard has resulted in better stability....so far.

Try setting the acceleration to the next to lowest setting instead of the lowest. Worked just as well against the crashed for me and the sound is fine as well.

Yeah i noticed game running without a problem now, only the small radscorpions falling through the earth to complain about, tho it doesnt bother me.