Very weird problem: AnyDVD HD 6519 kills GTA IV game

[Rathbone80]

Since I installed 6519 I have a very strange problem. When AnyDVD HD is enabled and I want to play GTA IV ingame graphics become corrupt and lead to a BSOD of the graphics driver (something with nviddmkm) when I do not exit the game immediately. When I deactive AnyDVD HD the game works fine.

[gonwk]

Since I installed 6519 I have a very strange problem. When AnyDVD HD is enabled and I want to play GTA IV ingame graphics become corrupt and lead to a BSOD of the graphics driver (something with nviddmkm) when I do not exit the game immediately. When I deactive AnyDVD HD the game works fine.

Hi Rathbone,

Just curious ... why would you have AnyDVD running in the Background if you are not using it ... or ripping anything!?!?

Thanks,

G!:)

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

Hi Rathbone,

Just curious ... why would you have AnyDVD running in the Background if you are not using it ... or ripping anything!?!?

Thanks,

G!:)

It's recommended to always have AnyDVD running and enabled. There are numerous reasons for this.

You can prevent the installation of the garbage copy protection Sony placed on copy protected CDs that they no longer sell or make. You can prevent autorun on CDs and DVDs which prevents the the installation of software from some DVDs using various copy protections.

AnyDVD doesn't use a lot of resources and it is just wiser to always have it running unless here is a very valid reason to exit the program and then restart it when you are done but this situation is very rare.

[gonwk]

Hi DrinkLye,

Thanks ... never knew that!

G!:)

[Rathbone80]

It's no problem to shut down AnyDVD HD. The problem is you don't expect AnyDVD to be the cause of this. The developers should try to reproduce the issue and sort it out. Some people may think their hardware is damaged and RMA their graphics cards. I would have done that if I had not tried GTA IV and Mirror's Edge on my Win7 dual boot OS (without AnyDVD) and could play fine for hours. After reinstalling driver etc. problem still occurred on thze main Vista 64 SP1 OS. I decided to clean the task manager of all secondary applications including AnyDVD et viola: Worked! Then I added back one after another and finally discovered that AnyDVD was the culprit. It's reproducable.

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

It's no problem to shut down AnyDVD HD. The problem is you don't expect AnyDVD to be the cause of this. The developers should try to reproduce the issue and sort it out. Some people may think their hardware is damaged and RMA their graphics cards.

I agree that this is interesting and should be investigated. :) It appears an NVIDIA driver files is the one listed in the BSOD. Nonetheless, if AnyDVD seems to have an impact I definitely find it interesting.

[Rathbone80]

I suspect it has something to do with AnyDVD interfering with the SecuRom copy protection of GTA IV. But it's just a guess. Earlier versions of AnyDVD worked fine btw.