Blue Screen of Death with some sound cards

Still been using disableXRAM on my X-fi Titanium Fatal1ty, and usually just been keeping it disabled. No BSOD's in Path of Exile (after alt tabbing and clicking folders in windows explorer, or opening other programs, etc) ever since I made the original post back in beta (except some stupid AMD R290X flash/video acceleration based crap that comes up sometimes).
And yes, it should be dword now. It was originally string when this command got added back in the windows XP drivers, for Unreal Tournament 3 crashes way back in 2007-2008.
Still using Creative drivers from middle of last year 2013; no idea what's happened since then.
Here's the log of UT3 when Xram is disabled (through DisableXRAM=1 dword).

Log: Looking for DLC...
Log: Object size..............: 60
Log: Actor size...............: 436
Log: ActorComponent size......: 88
Log: PrimitiveComponent size..: 448
Init: ALAudio device requested :
Init: ALAudio device opened : SB X-Fi Audio [0001]
Init: AL_VENDOR : Creative Labs Inc.
Init: AL_RENDERER : SB X-Fi Audio [0001]
Init: AL_VERSION : OpenAL version 1.1
Init: AL_EXTENSIONS : EAX
EAX1.0
EAX2.0
EAX3.0
EAX4.0
EAX5.0

Init: Device supports: EAX4.0
Init: Device supports: ALC_EXT_EFX
Init: Found EFX extension with 4 effect slots and 4 potential sends
Init: ...'reverb' supported
Init: ...'equalizer' supported
Init: ...'low pass filter' supported
Init: XRAM : NO
Init: ALAudioDevice initialized.
Init: Client initialized


And below is the log with DisableXRAM=0 (enabled) or the registry var removed:
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Init: UEngine initialized
Log: Looking for DLC...
Log: Object size..............: 60
Log: Actor size...............: 436
Log: ActorComponent size......: 88
Log: PrimitiveComponent size..: 448
Init: ALAudio device requested :
Init: ALAudio device opened : SB X-Fi Audio [0001]
Init: AL_VENDOR : Creative Labs Inc.
Init: AL_RENDERER : SB X-Fi Audio [0001]
Init: AL_VERSION : OpenAL version 1.1
Init: AL_EXTENSIONS : EAX
EAX1.0
EAX2.0
EAX3.0
EAX4.0
EAX5.0

Init: Device supports: EAX4.0
Init: Device supports: EAX-RAM
Init: Device supports: ALC_EXT_EFX
Init: Found EFX extension with 4 effect slots and 4 potential sends
Init: ...'reverb' supported
Init: ...'equalizer' supported
Init: ...'low pass filter' supported
Init: XRAM : YES
Init: ALAudioDevice initialized.
Init: Client initialized

Can play smoothly with new x-fi driver for xp/vista/w7/w8/w81 SBXF_PCDRV_L11_2_30_0004 from 28 III 2014. Check http://support.creative.com/ site. No need --softwaresound now. Running w7 x64, x-fi platinum fatal1ty champion optical out, steam poe, most of acts - crematorium especialy, with no errors. Hope it helps.

I have played the game for 10 month and today I had my first BSOD. My soundcard however is just regular onboard High Def Realtek. Should I supect something else to be the reason for it? (My GPU did not overheat btw)

i playing from closed beta.. and started having bsod since forsaken master... :(

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DentaGram wrote:

i playing from closed beta.. and started having bsod since forsaken master... :(

Same here. Well, first one last night. Lots of items on ground, 4 ppl and my Scion spamming Tornado shot would, in my mind, point to video card. 2 players complained lagging because of items. I didn't lag at all and then insta death :D I'll try the sound fix next.

edit: It was just hardware problem that happened during PoE. Fixed.

Been playing since open beta with no issues. Have had 3 BSoD this week. One while idling in hidehout with map portal up. Other times in maps. Not sure if sound related, windows didn't categorize the crashes.

Metadate/Items/Quivers/SharktoothArrowQuiverDrop.au
Metadata/Items/Quivers/SharktoothArrowQuverDrop : Error: Expected extends

I get this error whenever I try to start the game.

I have died to a BBOD in HC so many times now that after playing two and half years of this game I'm quitting. Please fix this sound card issue because I like actually playing the game with sound and at this point it's just destroying my hardware and wasting my time.

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Pelltax wrote:

I have died to a BBOD in HC so many times now that after playing two and half years of this game I'm quitting. Please fix this sound card issue because I like actually playing the game with sound and at this point it's just destroying my hardware and wasting my time.

It's an issue witht he sound card driver, as has laways been the case peopel seem to be using drivers several years out of date, the fix was to use -swa or use the drop down box in the options to select the audia device, which you would know if you read the stickies.

And fyi BSOD's are 100% not game related, it's hardware or driver related.

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