Dead space 1 crashes on start up

[Kotamaku]

Nope no vpn or proxy being used.

[EA_Barry]

@Kotamaku

Please follow these steps to access details on the crash:

1. Click Start, search for "reliability history", click view reliability history
2. Click on any of the recent critical events(red with a white x) relating to Dead Space and then click on view technical details
3. Copy and paste the description into your next post here.

Thank you.

[Kotamaku]

I managed to find one of the multiple crashes with a view technical report. Most were just check for solution.

Faulting application name: Dead Space.exe, version: 1.0.0.222, time stamp: 0x493e043a
Faulting module name: Dead Space.exe, version: 1.0.0.222, time stamp: 0x493e043a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x002cc6de
Faulting process id: 0x27b4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1a00696e462aa
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dead Space\Dead Space.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dead Space\Dead Space.exe
Report Id: d558bcef-0bf9-11e6-8111-cc52af3ec19f

Also since I found it and mentioned earlier deadspace 2 has been doing basically the same, here is the tech report for it as well

Faulting application name: deadspace2.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: deadspace2.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00433c40
Faulting process id: 0x2cdc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d19e3cc1485cb7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dead Space 2\deadspace2.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dead Space 2\deadspace2.exe
Report Id: 183a9acb-0a30-11e6-a45a-cc52af3ec19f

[EA_Barry]

@Kotamaku

I found a lot of threads with that error code and have pulled the below steps out of some of those.

• Run Steam as an administrator and run DS1 in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode
• Run a disk check: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2641432
• Set your video card to run at stock clock speeds
• Reinstall game

[Kotamaku]

No luck still.

[Kotamaku]

I remember seeing something before about how dead space 2 won't run well with more than 4 cpu cores. Do you think that is the problem I am having with dead space 1 with my 2 intel xeon 8 core processors?

[EA_Barry]

@Kotamaku

With an older game such as this, having too many CPUs is possible but with a PC of that kind of calibre do you really want to disable CPUs to play?

You could try disabling some cores by setting 'CPU affinity':

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del > Start Task Manager > Processes Tab > right click desired program > Set Affinity

[Kotamaku]

Won't let me do it as it auto crashes.

[EA_Barry]

@Kotamaku

Okay so I have found that this all could be an issue with the most recent Crimson video card drivers.

Please use the following clean uninstall utility to remove your current video drivers:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx

Then download and install the most recent non-Crimson driver set:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=Windows%207%20-%2064&rev=15.12

Obviously we would like you to post your results here, thanks.

[Kotamaku]

@EA_Barry

Didn't work. That driver you linked me didn't help, plus it was also a crimson driver. They have started this new driver branding of crimson since nov 2015. I went into their legacy section and can't find a non crimson and their it only went up to windows vista.