Bsd On Some Text Effects

[larrett@larrett.com]

I am having a problem from within videowave8 trying to do a slide show. I finished inserting the slides in the show and then when I go back and try to insert text into color panels using "add text effect", I get a "blue screen of death" on some of the 3D text effects. Actually all I have to do is preview some of the text effects and the bsd comes up. Effects like "Bees Ness Scroll" work fine, but "Blue Skies" is bsd. Overlay and video effects seem to all work fine. The problem is only with some of the text effects.

 

I have a Pentium 4 2.66 Meg processor. 1 Gig of ram, and am using winxp pro sp2 os. I have updated my display driver, GeForce 4 MX 400, which did not help. I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have.

 

Doing the graphics text, I default to hardware.

[ggrussell]

The dxdiag only tests to see if DirectX is installed correctly and running correctly. It doesn't actually test whether or not any hardware supports ALL of the commands. The fact that Videowave/MyDVD defaults to hardware rendering on your machine is a good thing.

 

One other thing you can check - motherboard chipset drivers. One user posted that fixed some display problems for him. Specifically he updated the AGP drivers for the VIA chipset on his mobo. Check the website of your computer manufacturer for stuff like that.

[larrett@larrett.com]

Check out VIA's driver site here.

 

Ok I installed the latest chip set drivers but it did not fix the problem. Still gets the BSD. Any other suggestions.

[bimicher]

I am having a problem from within videowave8 trying to do a slide show. I finished inserting the slides in the show and then when I go back and try to insert text into color panels using "add text effect", I get a "blue screen of death" on some of the 3D text effects. Actually all I have to do is preview some of the text effects and the bsd comes up. Effects like "Bees Ness Scroll" work fine, but "Blue Skies" is bsd. Overlay and video effects seem to all work fine. The problem is only with some of the text effects.

 

I have a Pentium 4 2.66 Meg processor. 1 Gig of ram, and am using winxp pro sp2 os. I have updated my display driver, GeForce 4 MX 400, which did not help. I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have.

 

Doing the graphics text, I default to hardware.

 

Are you also running DirectX 9c?

[larrett@larrett.com]

The dxdiag only tests to see if DirectX is installed correctly and running correctly. It doesn't actually test whether or not any hardware supports ALL of the commands. The fact that Videowave/MyDVD defaults to hardware rendering on your machine is a good thing.

 

One other thing you can check - motherboard chipset drivers. One user posted that fixed some display problems for him. Specifically he updated the AGP drivers for the VIA chipset on his mobo. Check the website of your computer manufacturer for stuff like that.

 

I have a homemade setup using a LAVXA2 mother board which uses a Phoenix - Award BIOS v6.00PG . The bios is ver:1.1e 11/19/2003 and according to the website is up to date. The chipset is VIA Technologies, Inc. P4X400-8235 and I have no idea what driver level it is at.

[ggrussell]

Check out VIA's driver site here.

[lehill]

Ok I installed the latest chip set drivers but it did not fix the problem. Still gets the BSD. Any other suggestions.

 

If the BSOD is initiated by a driver problem, the offending file is usually identified on the screen like this - <something>.sys Searching your hard disk for this file may provide a clue on what piece of hardware is causing the problem.

 

On rare occasion, copying down the error code (0x<some numbers>, 0x<some more numbers>, etc) and searching the internet has helped me. Sometimes looking in the event log may show an error msg just before the crash (Start/Run, type eventvwr.msc in the Run box).

 

Lance

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[larrett@larrett.com]

Are you also running DirectX 9c?

 

 

Yes I am. I ran dxdiag and it says: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.000.0904) and all the tests were passed successfully.