Starcraft crashing in XP
This is a discussion about Starcraft crashing in XP in the Windows Games category; Hey everyone. Whenever I play Starcraft online the game crashes during intense battles. The BSOD I get says that the file that crashes is QSoftAudio. sys. So that seems to be audio related. I have a Philips SonicEdge 605 sound card.
Hey everyone. Whenever I play Starcraft online the game crashes during intense battles. The BSOD I get says that the file that crashes is QSoftAudio.sys. So that seems to be audio related. I have a Philips SonicEdge 605 sound card. I have the latest drivers installed. I've tried moving the card to various PCI slots and that didn't help. The only way I can play the game w/o crashing is by disabling the soundcard (from Device Manager of course).
Does anyone know what else I could try? I have AC'97 audio integrated in the motherboard (it's disabled, btw), should I try that sound card instead? Any help will be appreciated.
Does anyone know what else I could try? I have AC'97 audio integrated in the motherboard (it's disabled, btw), should I try that sound card instead? Any help will be appreciated.
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I run Starcraft fine on my Philips Acoustic Edge with the 1.86 WHQL drivers.
What patch level is starcraft at and what version of Direct X you got running?
What patch level is starcraft at and what version of Direct X you got running?
OP
I have DX 9a and i think i have patch 1.07
OP
Another thing, the error at the top of the BSOD says something like:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
hope that helps...
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
hope that helps...
Could be an IRQ conflict somwhere.....
OP
I was thinking about that too. I have on board audio (AC'97), but its disabled (BIOS). Device Manager doesn't show any errors in the IRQ settings (i.e. no conflicts). I'll check some more settings.
Turn the hardware accelration down in the Control Panel.
Also run DX9 diag test to check for any issues.
If that fails try your onboard sound. You can always creat an additional hardware profile to use when you want to play starcraft
Also run DX9 diag test to check for any issues.
If that fails try your onboard sound. You can always creat an additional hardware profile to use when you want to play starcraft
