At the beginning of the Black Friday map after movie clip, imagery is jittery, then objects with water running down them turn to a silver blob. Shortly the game crashes to blue-screen with the following messages:

Problem detected by Windows and will shut-down the computer to protect it.

Problem caused by ati3duag.dll

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

ati3duag.dll address BF25B760 base at BF19E00, datestamp 48d99dc6.

My PC is Dell 8300 with 3.2GHz P4, 3Gig DDR400 RAM, 160Gig HDD, ATI Sapphire HD3850 512Mb 8xAGP graphics card w/ latest drivers, Viewsonic VX2233wm monitor (sweet), on-board sound.

The game ran fine up to this map. I have latest drivers for graphics card. I also contacted ATI and Sapphire about problem. Any ideas out there?

This just started happening to me also. NOW I get text at start of game but once map changes I lose all text on the screen. Game still plays for awhile and then BSOD's.

I have the same problem, BSOD everytime on Black Friday map.

WinXP SP3 on AMD Quad Core box, 4GB RAM, ATI HD 3400 with latest drivers (8.10). No Catalyst software, just drivers. Reinstalled video drivers

Included a mini memory dump:

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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (50)
Invalid system memory was referenced. This cannot be protected by try-except,
it must be protected by a Probe. Typically the address is just plain bad or it
is pointing at freed memory.
Arguments:
Arg1: e7f04b04, memory referenced.
Arg2: 00000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation.
Arg3: bf25b760, If non-zero, the instruction address which referenced the bad memory
address.
Arg4: 00000001, (reserved)

Debugging Details:
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Could not read faulting driver name

READ_ADDRESS: e7f04b04

FAULTING_IP:
ati3duag!MarkRequiredSrcChannels+100
bf25b760 f685280500000f test byte ptr [ebp+528h],0Fh

MM_INTERNAL_CODE: 1

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 5

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: COMMON_SYSTEM_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR: 0x50

PROCESS_NAME: biahh.exe

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from e11d5010 to bf25b760

STACK_TEXT:
aae3fb44 e11d5010 e11d1010 00000000 bf23e5f5 ati3duag!MarkRequiredSrcChannels+0x100
WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong.
aae3fb58 e1165e88 e11d1010 e11d5010 000c0000 0xe11d5010
aae3fb5c e11d1010 e11d5010 000c0000 00000000 0xe1165e88
aae3fb60 e11d5010 000c0000 00000000 00000000 0xe11d1010
aae3fb64 000c0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0xe11d5010
aae3fb68 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0xc0000


STACK_COMMAND: kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:
ati3duag!MarkRequiredSrcChannels+100
bf25b760 f685280500000f test byte ptr [ebp+528h],0Fh

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0

SYMBOL_NAME: ati3duag!MarkRequiredSrcChannels+100

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: ati3duag

IMAGE_NAME: ati3duag.dll

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 48d99dc6

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x50_ati3duag!MarkRequiredSrcChannels+100

BUCKET_ID: 0x50_ati3duag!MarkRequiredSrcChannels+100

I was able to find a work around.

I read on another forum to back-date the display driver to an earlier version.

I removed all ATI software from the machine, rebooted the computer, canceled the Windows attempt to load drivers and then loaded version 8.5 driver only. I did not load Catalyst Control Panel. The game then played okay.

After I completed the map, I reloaded 8.9 but did not load the Catalyst Control Panel. I seem to remember in the past having trouble with Catalyst, so I did not load it. Give it a try.

After Black Friday, the game seemed to work okay until I tried to replay a chapter and discovered the game isn't saving the completed chapters. I then clicked on the beginning and lost everything. So I am starting over.

BTW, here's the link to the older drivers.
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeonxprevious-xp.html

Today, ATI release a hotfix to cure this issue! It worked for me, woot!

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8...dge&questionID=38664

Since I had to start over on the game, I loaded ATI's hotfix when I got to the Black Friday map and the game worked just fine.

The hotfix is located here under most recent topics:
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

I downloaded what I thought were the latest ATI drivers for my HD 4870 from my card manufacturer's website (Powercolor), but that didn't fix the problem. Then I tried downloading the latest drivers direct from ATI and that solved this issue. The latest drivers must include the hotfix, as I tried applying that after the drivers I got from ATI, but it said the installed version was newer.