Borderlands PC Crash / Freeze, Can’t Play Online, Low Framerate, General Protection Fault, Tweaks, Console Commands, Problems and Fixes
Written by badguy001
Borderlands storms the gaming scene with its oh-so-awesome plethora of guns, guns, and more guns. Although Borderlands offers a wide variety of weapons not seen in any other game to date, not even its arsenal could protect players from experiencing a game-breaking glitch or two. So if you’re stuck on the desktop because some error won’t let you enter Pandora, then check out the guide below and you might find the solution you need to begin questing in the borderlands.
IMPORTANT:
- Update your nVidia and ATI video / Graphics cards to their latest drivers.
- If you have encountered problems or solutions not listed in this guide, feel free to post it in the comment section below. No registration required
- Be sure that your PC meets these system requirements:
OS: Windows XP / Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz or equivalent processor
Memory: 1GB System RAM (2GB recommended with Vista)
Graphics: 256mb video ram or better (GeForce 8 series or higher / ATI Radeon R8xx series)
Hard Drive: 8 GB or more free space
Sound: Windows compatible sound card
Problem #1: Trouble playing Borderlands online
Solution #1: (By HousePlant from the Gearbox forums)
Borderlands, like many other online multiplayer games, requires that you forward a few ports if you plan on hosting a game. This basically means that if you want people to join your game you need to open up a path in your internet connection for them to get there, otherwise you’ll be left to loot all by your lonesome.
But don’t worry! This is a pretty easy thing to do!
First, determine whether or not these ports are already open
There are some cases where port forwarding is unnecessary, such as when you connect directly to a single port cable or DSL modem.
To test for this just click each of the following links, it will tell you if the port is open or not. [this section is broken, it'll say closed even if they're open right now, I'll fix later]
28902 – seems like this needs to be open too.
If the ports were closed, we need to determine what kind of router you’re using
You’ll need to find the model name of the router or router/modem combo you’re using. This shouldn’t be too hard. Usually, the internet comes in through your modem (box connecting to the wall either through phone line or cable line) and is then passed to a router which sorts and distributes your internet connection to the computers in your house. Go find the latter, turn it over, and look for a brand name and some kind of model number (Ex.: Linksys wrt54g, D-link DI-804). Once you have that go to this link and locate your model:
Follow the instructions provided. The ports you need to open are:
7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)
28902 – not in the readme, but opening this port helped alot of people
Once you’re done click each port to test if it’s really forwarded. Bear in mind that sometimes it takes a minute for the router settings to apply (occasionally you’ll even need to reset it before the settings take effect).
Forgot to mention!!!: You’ll need to either add an exception to the windows firewall or disable it altogether. I disabled mine; it’s all but useless. I’ll write up a guide when I’m done with class.
There you have it! Now people can join your games.
Problem #2: Borderlands crashes / freezes during any guardian angel video.
Solution #1: (By Edix540 from the Steam forums)
At this time a work around appears to be to disable your SLI in the nvidia control panel.
It is possible that a graphical setting turned on causes this issue when SLI is enabled. As opposed to SLI being the direct cause. I have not tested this yet. Will repost if I get any new information.
Problem #3: Borderlands keeps crashing / freezing.
Solution #1:
Update your nVidia video card to its latest graphics driver.
Problem #4: Experience very low framerate / performance when playing Borderlands
Solution #1: (By Sid from the Gearbox forums)
I downloaded the EVGA unofficial SLi support/enhancement patch that creates an SLi profile for this game.
Problem #5: Borderlands crashes during startup or at the splash screen.
Solution #1:
Disable the splash screen.
Problem #6: Borderlands encounters general protection fault.
Possible Solution #1: (By Xypherspiral from the Gearbox forums)
Hi Folks,
I have test a few things cause i get a general protection fault since ive got this game.
When you get a General Protection fault that contains things like:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6325/31940403.jpg
Filename not Found, Kernel32.dll, MSVCR90.dll etc,
Try this,
Start the game, go quick to your taskmanager select go Processes, search Borderlands.exe, Right mouse button, click “Set Affinity” disable all cpu´s except of one (run this game with one Processor).
You must do this before the game start,
Hope it helps, i play now about one hour, before i cant play more than 20 min…
Possible Solution #2:
Update your directX.
HOW TO TWEAK BORDERLANDS: (By kyodan from the Gearbox forums)
Here’s a few tweaks I’ve come across and found that might help people with ‘deconsolizing’ Borderlands. I’m going to assume you all know where the location of these INI files are (Usually in USER NAME\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config in Vista).
To disable the startup movies:
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Within WillowEngine.ini:
Find:
[FullScreenMovie]
StartupMovies=2K_logo
StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo
StartupMovies=NVidia
StartupMovies=Loading
SkippableMovies=2K_logo
SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo
SkippableMovies=Attract
SkippableMovies=NVidia
and comment out lines like so:
[FullScreenMovie]
//StartupMovies=2K_logo
//StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo
//StartupMovies=NVidia
//StartupMovies=Loading
//SkippableMovies=2K_logo
//SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo
//SkippableMovies=Attract
//SkippableMovies=NVidia
If that doesn’t work, replace the // with ;
To adjust FOV (Field of View):
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Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for “WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput”. Below the chunk of bindings, add the following:
Bindings=(Name=”F10″,Command=”FOV 90″,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
Bindings=(Name=”F11″,Command=”FOV 110″,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
You can change the keys (F10 and F11) to whatever you’d like, as well as the FOV values.
To disable mouse smoothing:
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Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for “bEnableMouseSmoothing” and you should come across the following line:
bEnableMouseSmoothing=True
Change to FALSE. This tremendously improves the feel of the mouse when looking around in-game and navigating the UI.
To disable/adjust weapon view bob:
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Within WillowGame.ini:
Search for “bWeaponBob” and you should come across the following lines:
bWeaponBob=TRUE
Bob=0.005
They should be pretty self explanatory. I can confirm the Bob numerical adjustment does work.
To enable VSync:
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Within WillowEngine.ini:
Search for “UseVsync” and you should come across the following line:
UseVsync=False
Change to TRUE.
To disable voice chat:
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Within WillowEngine.ini:
Search for “bHasVoiceEnabled” and you should come across the following line:
bHasVoiceEnabled=True
Change to FALSE.
To enable console:
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*NOTE: This currently doesn’t work correctly, it outputs all commands as ‘SAY’ commands*
Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for “ConsoleKey” and you should come across the following line:
ConsoleKey=
Add ‘Tilde’ after the equal sign to enable the console (should look like ConsoleKey=Tilde)
Enable Drop Weapon Key:
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Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for “WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput”. Within that section, search for “ThrowWeapon”. By default, it’s bound to “Underscore” – I changed mine to V, so it looks like:
Bindings=(Name=”V”,Command=”ThrowWeapon”,Control=F alse,Shift=False,Alt=False)
To make zoom a toggle (courtesy of Miker):
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Within WillowInput.ini:
Add the text below under [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]
Bindings=(Name=”ZoomIn”,Command=”StartAltFire | setbind RightMouseButton ZoomOut”,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftT rigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False, bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name=”ZoomOut”,Command=”StopAltFire | setbind RightMouseButton ZoomIn”,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTr igger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,b IgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Then, edit the preexisting RightMouseButton binding to reflect the change:
Bindings=(Name=”RightMouseButton”,Command=”advance dbutton bAdvancedButtonAux5″,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt =False,LeftTrigger= False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnore Shift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
to
Bindings=(Name=”RightMouseButton”,Command=”ZoomIn” ,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger= False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnore Shift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
To enable scroll wheel in text boxes:
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Within WillowInput.ini
Search for all instances of the following (there should only be two instances):
InputKeyName=”MouseScrollUp”,ModifierKeyFlags=42
InputKeyName=”MouseScrollDown”,ModifierKeyFlags=42
remove the “,ModifierKeyFlags=42″ so they look like:
InputKeyName=”MouseScrollUp”
InputKeyName=”MouseScrollDown”
“Irritated by the toggle crouch? Add a momentary, like-any-other-FPS style crouch key with the two lines below, added to the bottom of the [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput] section of WillowInput.ini:
Code:
Bindings=(Name=”Duck”,Command=”Button bDuck | Axis aUp Speed=-1.0 AbsoluteAxis=100″)
Bindings=(Name=”LeftControl”,Command=”Duck”,Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=F alse,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=Fa lse,bIgnoreAlt=False”
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If you still can’t find the fix you need then check out Gamingnewslink’s fix guide. It’s also the best source for anything StarCraft.
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October 27th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Omg thank you. Best article ever! Why isn’t this higher up in google search engine? Stupid google.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Hey, my friends computer reboots everytime he blows up that wall in the early missions.
He has a radeon HD 4870×2
2GB ram
Intel 2.80GHz quad
Windows 7 64-bit
October 28th, 2009 at 8:53 am
i have a problem not listed here
the game works just fine
until i pick my character
then the sound stops
no sound at all
dont know why
any help ?
October 28th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Well, I solved my Steam release issue of “General Protection Fault” pretty easily… turnsd out it was PC TOOLs AV that was gumming up the works. I turned it off and it ran fine.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I can play about 5-10 mins and it crashes.
I have
2GB ram
Intel Dual core
ATI Radeon HD 3850
Windows Vista 64 bit edition
ok why in the hell has no one had this problem with this card???
October 28th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Z nich I have the same problem, no matter where I am, the game will freeze after about 5 minutes, but for those 5 minutes it runs smoothly.
core2duo 2.66ghz
2GB Ram
8800GT 512
XP
October 29th, 2009 at 1:40 am
I also have a ATI Radeon HD3850. Sometimes while playing, the game will freeze and then the monitor shuts down as if there’s no input. Oddly enough the music is still playing, and replugging in the monitor cable shows Borderlands with lots of lines and yet I can move and see the mouse pointer. Monitor again shuts off acting as if there’s no input and I have to restart the computer. So frustrating.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Same thing happens to me as Solo, it appears to be random.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
is it a problem with the ATI
cos i have ATI 4650
it works fine
but without any sound
the game sucks without sound
cant play it without sound
any help ?
October 30th, 2009 at 6:30 am
my game just randomly crashes to desktop anywhere from 2-10 minutes
3gig ram
nvidia 8800 gts
xp servicepack 3
3.2 ghz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
October 30th, 2009 at 7:34 am
My game also random crashes, goes like Freeze / grafical error ?
- and sound still playing.. cant tab out or anything… only option is reboot..
getting major frustrated !!
specs:
Intel Quad 3.ghz Extreme
4gb ram
xp sp 3
Nvidia 9800 GTx
October 30th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Well, this one is kind of strange, every time that girl hollograph comes up and start talking to me (I belive its the guide angel or something), when she finishes talking and the holograph disapears, the game freezes up for like 10 seconds, and then lot of graphical glitches occur, the first time it was just a big horizontal line going from the top to the bottom, the next time it was a lot of strange colors, figures and rare things. If i restart the game the glitches stay there, i have to restart my pc to fix the thing
*i dont have SLI cards so i dont have a option to disable it..
October 30th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
btw same here I play the game . when the Women talk to me , the get crash but gess what I can move but the Graphics -_- omg not freez and crash yet, its like u play bug you can say , after few sec go frezz
I checked my PC every things is fine and dont know why this happen
Spec :
Q6600 @ 2 . 40 HZ
RAm 4 GB
Xp 32 bit
geforce 9800
October 30th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
My game have random crashes in the main menù and after in the “bus” presentation.
i dont understand why… cheked all inside my chassis/bios/driverz/programz/damitSecureRom… all ok 
some times i can reach the first mission. after the presentation the game run good
so i think we need patches!!!
October 30th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Same here 10-15minutes no monitor input crash. Still hear sound but no display.
Radeon 4870
4gb
amd 4800×2
vista 64bit ultimate
*Latest drivers*
Very very frustrating
October 31st, 2009 at 12:07 am
Hey guys, Ive enables Vsync in the ini files / forced it on with Nvidia control panel etc, the game works fine no tearing, but in the inventory menu (tab menu) and Vendor menus, i get really bad tearing.
Any ideas?
specs:
Intel DualCore 3.17ghz
4gb ram
Vista 64bit latest updates and sp
Nvidia 9800 GTX
October 31st, 2009 at 1:28 am
I have a ATI 4870 HD and it runs very smooth for like 30minutes and suddenly theres a massive fps drop
Intel Core Quad Q9300 @ 2,5Ghz
4 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4870
Vista 32bit SP2
October 31st, 2009 at 2:06 am
when i start the game at choose character screen it flickers between characters so fast that i can’t choose one, this is continous. so i just click hoping to get the character i want, and whatever character gets off the bus, the character spins in a circle continuosly. Can someone help with this.
October 31st, 2009 at 7:53 am
I’m running Borderlands on XP and the S.O.B goes from black screen to desktop and wont load when I try to move to another area.
(bastard let blow up the wall and move to Scrag Gully But if you try to leave your F#%$ed !!)
October 31st, 2009 at 11:46 am
this game really really really —- has a lot of bugs
more than i ever saw
October 31st, 2009 at 1:11 pm
@ MozZ
Do you have the 9800gx2? I get the same problem, and the 9800 is ‘considered’ SLI.
October 31st, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Mine runs fine for hours starts off with sound BUT! then say any given time during this all audio will drop and upon exit all system audio is disabled, itunes wont even play a track it never advances past 0:00, control panel speaker tests no go, reboot fixes but only until i play borderlands again.
Tried the latest audio drivers for the realtek HD auidio my MB uses.
Core i5 750 @ 2.67 2.79ghz
4GB Ram
Vista Home premium 64
Nvidia GF GTX260
October 31st, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I have a freezing blank screen problem as well. The firs time it happened was at the “new you” console thing. I had to hard reboot out of that. The 2nd Time was at the weapons crate after killing off the first few bad guys. I picked up a gun and the screen went blank it came back on and i was looking at the sky. I picked up some ammo and the screen went blank again. When it came back I was looking at the sky again. I tried walking away from the Crate and the screen went blank again. This time it didn’t come back. I Could still hear the music, but Alt+Tab, and CNTRL+ALT+DEL didn’t work. The game plays amaizingly well until it freezes…
Phenom II 940 @3.9 GHZ
HD 4870×2 at 820×950
Asus M3A79-T Deluxe Mobo
8 GB OCZ Reaper 1066
October 31st, 2009 at 11:52 pm
OOps Forgot to mention Windows 7 ultimate 64
November 1st, 2009 at 8:59 am
I keep getting the bug where ny screen goes black and the sound loops every time I go near the 1st part of the quest “bait and switch” in trash coast.
My specs are:
Intel core2 quad q6600 @ 2.4GHz
Dfi lanparty LT motherboard
4 gigs (4×1) of OCI ram DD2 800
nVidia 8800 GT (updated to current driver)
November 1st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I’m having the same black screen crash problem. It also happens in Crysis Warhead. It appears to be random.
My specs are:
Intel Core i5 750 @ 2,67Hz
2x2GB DDR3
Asus ATI 4780 (Latest drivers)
Windows 7 32bits
Any ideas?
November 1st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
The game keeps crashing every time i try and use a vehicle. I can sit in the vehicle and not move, but as soon as i start to move the game crashes, and its impossible to continue with the story without a vehicle, any solutions?
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 am
James Says:
October 31st, 2009 at 2:06 am
when i start the game at choose character screen it flickers between characters so fast that i can’t choose one, this is continous. so i just click hoping to get the character i want, and whatever character gets off the bus, the character spins in a circle continuosly. Can someone help with this.
@James
Disable joystick
WillowEngine.ini
Change AllowJoystickInput from 1 to 0
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
My game only crashes when i try to enter Rust Common East. The game runs smoothly everywhere else. Only when I enter RCE will it freeze with a GPF. Any ideas on this? I’ve already tried to reinstall and it still crashes in the same exact location.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I have windows 7 professional 64.
4 gb ram
intel 8400 no overclock
xfx 750I
My game appears to install fine, however, double click icon to start game. and splash screen shows. Then windows says program stopped working. deleted splash screen info to disable it. Same situation. Updated directx, reinstalled various ways and in various compatibility modes,
Also, only had to enter product key once, on reinstall never req it. looked for any files associated with the game. none around.
i’ve given up at this point. bought a game that wont even play.
any suggestions would be lovely. appreciate all input.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm
you need to download
http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/dyna…42f&ItemID=153
its an amd dual core optimizer
it makes the game work
i ended up uninstalling the game and installing the optimizer
i dont know if just downloading it will fix it
i was troubleshooting
happy gaming!!!1
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 am
I solved my gpf this way:
shortcut to borderlands.exe, right click, properties, Target: “blabla\Gearbox Software\Borderlands\Binaries\Borderlands.exe” -onethread
-onethread solved my problem.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
My game freezes about 40% of the time when loading a level. The game runs perfect when the level loads but it stops responding during the loading screen very often. How do i fix this? Is this the splash screen that is previously mentioned?
November 5th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Hi,
the game does not even start up for me – ran steam then it went to prepare to launch then just said that borderlands is not responding, windows suggested a service pack upgrade which i ran but the same error comes up still but without a solution offered.
I have:
Advent AMD Phenom 9550 quad core 2.2 processor
Radeon ATI X1200 – with full upgrades
windows vista
4gb ram
hope you can help
November 6th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Hi,
I installed and played borderlands fine, then a few days later i updated windows and now the cd drive shows the disk is in but wont let me play it or open the game at all.
I tried system restoring it be4 the windows update but no help there, i was thinking about just reinstalling windows as a last resort.
any help would be great
Matt
November 7th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I have 1.7GHz Celeron 1GB RAM and GeForce FX5500 256 ram can i play this game ???
November 7th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
hi i have a mouseproblem when i move up or down whit it
it go the other way like when i go up whit my mouse
i look down
anybody know how to fix this ?
greetings
November 7th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Hi, I installed borderlands successfully and the starting video works fine. But when I go to choose my character I can’t see any thing but the box saying “Hunter”, “Rogue” etc. and when I choose one of them the video works again with full color. Then when I get off the bus and start playing the only thing I can see is a black outline of the road and buildings.
Any ideas?
Jake
November 10th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
ello fellow problem sufferers. i have a problem with borderlands in that periodically every couple of minutes the game freezes for about ten seconds. the music carries on but everything else just seems to pause for a few moments. i thought i could live with it to begin with but it is becomming inceasingly annoying as it totally ruins the flow of my gaming experience. in between ‘pauses’ the game runs fine and doesnt seem to have any other issues. NB its not a lag issue as so far i have just been playing offline single player mode. does anyone have any suggestions maybe please? many thanks for your time
JJLB
November 11th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
As soon as i double clcick on the icon it stops responding. i dont knw why can any 1 help?
November 11th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I can confirm that disabling the SLI will fix the freezing with the video (i kept freezing 10 minutes into the game because of that).
Disabled SLI and it works perfect.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
i have found how to fix crush problem(black screen,only sound still run),,when i play borderland in single player in first time,it run just well, until i ply it second time,after 15min,the game crush,,i try play it again and it will crush after 10-15min..i try to update drives to latest, lowering the game performance, play in window, update the microsof visual to the latest,,but it wont work..then i bought a new game, operation flashpoint”raising of the dragon”,,in the installation,, the game install visual microsof 2005, and i just remember borderland use microsoft visual 2009,,when i start ply borderland again,walaaa,,all run just fine,,high setting no problems,,,i use old windows XP(no money but the latest 1),, im newbie in computer stuff, so what i tink is,,who hv the same problem as i do, try to install microsoft visual from the old version to latest version, test every version,,,which i tink must appropriate with your windows XP version..
November 13th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Hey i have a big problem. Mine does not star it immediately “stops responding” can any one fix this!?
November 14th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Het guys,
my configuration is
AMD Athlon x64 DualCore 5000+
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
4GB RAM
and OS is XP service pack 2
when i install a game and try to run it i got message that game cannot start because the aplication configuration is incorect.
I have downloadede latest graphic driver and instal nvidia psysX!
Anyone know some solution for this problem?
Thanks!
November 14th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
OMG!! THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH!!!! THIS WAS SUPER HELPFUL!!! THANK YOU!!!
November 16th, 2009 at 8:06 am
How do i disable the splash screen???
November 16th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
also have the vehicle crash, upgrading nvidea as i speak… althow other forums say the 191.xx version its not so stable
grtz
November 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
i found this on the vehicle crash AND IT WORKED FOR ME:
just had to install the PhysX driver… cheers
“”
I had this same problem and found a solution. Problem is, I tried two things at once, and one of them worked. Not sure which it is.
1. Try getting into the vehicle, exiting, and waiting for Scooter’s sound byte to quit playing. I have a suspicion there’s something wrong with that particular sound byte, since it cut off part of the way through for me. After he shut up, I got in the vehicle and started driving, and everything worked fine.
2. If that doesn’t work, there is one thing I did before that, but it requires rolling back your PhysX drivers. Go to your Borderlands install directory and look for ..\borderlands\Prerequisites. Inside this folder you’ll find PhysX_8.10.29_SystemSoftware.exe. Run that, then try it.
The PhysX driver is the more likely cause, but since the first doesn’t require you to mess with any drivers, try it first
“”
November 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9018/generalprotectionfaultb.jpg
Problem #6: Borderlands encounters general protection fault.
This is my problem, is there any solution except the above one?
I cant find how to disable those CPUs.
Explain me please!!
November 19th, 2009 at 11:13 am
For gamers with problems of crashing and freezing. #1. Make sure nothing is running in the back ground while playing your game ie. TSR’s etc. #2. Make sure you have enough power for the game so upgrade your power supply to better than 700 watts. #3. Make sure your card can handle DX10 or better because newer games have more and more DX10 instructions than DX9c. #4. Make sure you have proper cooling for your rig and the fans all work and have plenty of ventilation. #5. Run System tools like Defrag, Scan Disk. #6. If your rig is 5 years old or older then maybe it’s time for a new rig.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO DISABLE THE SPLASH SCREEN!!
November 21st, 2009 at 11:31 pm
We had the same vpu recovery error. I have seen this before with other games. I have found this can help. It did for Borderlands. We have an ATI 3870. In the Catalyst softwear, go to part that has the anti aliasing and turn off the auto AI stuff. Only check on the “let the application” decide boxes. Any of the tricks that ATI has put in there to make the graphics better via these tricks seems to lock up the driver software after 20-30 minutes. Try this to see if it helps.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
When I startup the game, all I see is a black screen, I hear sounds but I still see a black screen. I’ve updated my drivers and updated directX, [I'm running on a 9800gtx quad-core 4g ram asus P5QL motherboard]
November 25th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I have the Westell A90-750015-07. i’ve followed the instructions on portfowarding.com but i am still unable to join games. is there something else that im missing?
November 30th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
For those having problems with connecting to friends games or hosting games i recommend
http://www.Gameranger.com
its a third party hosting program allows you to host a game through this program as opposed to gamespies its secure no cheater or anything and was the only thing that worked for my connectin problems since i installed and used this thing ive had no issues connecting or being connected to hope this helps someone =D
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Hey my game frezes at random spots, and the only way to finish out is a reboot.
I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
Please help me.
December 14th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Hey for any of you that:
a) Have a GeForce 200ish series with EVGA mobo nForce dealie (I also have Windows Vista x64)
b) are having the random crashes automatically every few minutes (I was only able to make it around the point in the beginning where the robot hides) then…
c) download the SLI enhancement patch from EVGA (you must register to download the file) – http://www.evga.com/articles/00463/
I tried literally everything else and was about to give up and return/sell the game, but this finally did the trick. Hope this relieves someone as much as it did me.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
i got the same problem here with a 8800GT after couple minute or couple hour i’m running the game my Pc crash Borderlands stop working… All my drivers are updated it might be cause of new drivers of Nvidia cause i did the whole game with my old drivers without any crash. Now i’ve update it to do the game with another caracters and it keep crashing i could be after 15 minute to an hour or more…
December 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am
I got a problem when im going to enter New Haven. It loads a while like two minutes and then it freezes, screen gets black and goes back to the descop and it turns black again. And like this it goes on and finally i got to quit the game every time. So i still havent been able to get to new haven. Game have been almost perfect (few crashes) until now.
Someone know how to fix this shit? I really want to continue thanks
December 21st, 2009 at 6:20 am
I got the gernal protection fault thing, since i had to reinsatlled windows, but nothiong works, the game will not even start- i updatet my grafic drifers and direkt x
before reimnsatlling windows it worked just fine, so its no system fault.
need help my system:
windows 32 xp prof
December 26th, 2009 at 5:22 am
My borderland freezes and causes the entire system to freeze after a random. I linked another monitor to the computer so I could monitor the system stats when it’s frozen and the cpu usage % was below 40% and Ram usage was below 50%. Graphics card temperature ranged from 40ish C to 60 C. Any ideas? I’m running the 195.62 driver from nvidia. Only way to recover from being frozen is restarting the computer.
CPU: Intel i7 Core 920 quad core OC’ed to 2.8ghz
RAM: 6 GB of DD3
Power Supply 800W
Video Card: PNY Geforce GTX 275 896 MB
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am
Hope someone can help, my problem is with online play. With my main character (level 50) i cannot play online, since it will just stay at the “finding matches” screen and never move on.
If i use a new character, never played i seem to be able to see a few level 1 matches but i can’t play online with my other ones.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Game randomly freezes, Alt Tab will fix it then it will crash again after a few seconds, even if on Menu screen. Did not experience this error when i played on the same system a while ago. Think may be due to the November update?
Also do not seem to have the freezing problem in towns and some other area’s. Will play around with the video settings.
My setup is as follows:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale @ 3.16ghz
Mobo: Gigabyte X48-DS4
RAM: 4gig DDR2 @ 533Mhz (2x2g sticks)
GFX: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB
Running DX11 and also tried with newest ATI drivers (9.12) with no luck.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
hi people my borderlands still dont work it boots up fine but when ever i try to play after first cut scene i get about 2 seconds of movement then crashes instantlly. leveing just a screen shot of the last fram (menus load up fine at round 50fps) anyone got any ideas how to fix this
specs:
1gb xfx 4850 oc to 675core and 1085mem (latsest 9.12 drivers installed)
e6600 2.4ghz stock non overclocked
4gb 800mhz ram
64bit windows 7 ultimate
January 6th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
“maddox Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 8:53 am
i have a problem not listed here
the game works just fine
until i pick my character
then the sound stops
no sound at all
dont know why
any help ?”
I have THE SAME FUCKIN PROBLEM… Has Anybody Fixed it???
Sound card : Soundblaster XFI Xtrem Gamer
I tryed to deleted the game and reinstall with the patch, and also install again audio drivers, but allways the same problem
January 8th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
LOL my game works
January 8th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
This game is great!
January 8th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Nooobz
im a level 50 siren happy gaming!
January 25th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
I have
Asus Striker II Extreme motherboard
Intel Q9450 – 2.66GHz
2GB ddr3 at 12800 (want to upgrade to 8GB, but I have other priorities)
1000w PSU
xfx 9800 gx2 black edition
2.5TB hard drive space
windows 7 pro 64-bit
This game crashes every 5-10 minutes. I get a black screen, sometimes sound remains. All I can do is reboot.
I attempted to lower the resolution/settings – no gain in stability. Though I leave it at a mere 1440 or so. I’ve tried updating directx, no effect. I tried updating my drivers from 195 to 196 – nothing.
I’m thinking because I have a 9800 GX2 I’m automatically screwed by its auto-SLI. Any ideas?
I’ve played fallout3 for hours at max settings like butter, Bioshock plays like nothing maxed out, and in FEAR the test gave me a good 400+fps.
I’m thinking this game is a buggy sack of garbage.
January 27th, 2010 at 5:16 am
This bit of hardware looks awesome, thatnks for the review.
January 30th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
I have Borderlands and it runs perfectly for hours on end. I have crossfire’d 4870′s and I believe I had to disable catalyst AI in CCC for it to run though. I had to do the same for Quake and Doom etc…
February 8th, 2010 at 10:46 am
I can’t change the game detail level. I’ve tried changing it in options and in .ini file. Detail level just won’t change from low setting.
I’m running Win7 64bit and ati 5870 with 10.1 drivers. Worked fine when i used win xp pro and 8800gts.
February 17th, 2010 at 5:10 am
Borderlands ran perfect with settings at high.
But since yesterday it runs at 25-30 FPS with drops to 11……
I never had problems (on my second playthrouh) but now it’s unplayable.
Anyone have any idears?
My specs:
-AMD 64 X2 6000+ running at 3132 MHz
-2 GB DDR2
-GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB (updated)
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:36 pm
every time i click single player in the start menu it opens the box and then freezes without displaying anything. every other menu works just fine, but i cant play the game…
March 11th, 2010 at 6:49 am
Ok so i got Borderlands, but every time i click the icon to run it, i get a general protection fault.
I havent even installed it yet, and i don’t know what to do.
Here is the error msg i get-
General protection fault!
History:GetOutermost() Adress = 0xaadc6a (filename not found)[in C:\Program Files\Borderlands\Binaries\Borderlands.exe]
I have no clue as to why this isnt working
Hope you can help me.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:42 am
[...] Solution #1: (By Sid from the Gearbox forums). I downloaded the EVGA unofficial SLi support/enhancement patch that creates an SLi profile for this game. Problem #5: Borderlands crashes during startup or at the splash screen. ….. Video Card: PNY Geforce GTX 275 896 MB OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64. Halosheep Says: January 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am. Hope someone can help, my problem is with online play. With my main character (level 50) i cannot play online, since it will just …Read more… [...]
March 16th, 2010 at 11:19 am
[...] geforce 9800. LoLMaster Says: October 30th, 2009 at 6:15 pm. My game have random crashes in the main menù and after in the “bus” presentation. some times i can reach the first mission. after the presentation the game run good ….. Video Card: PNY Geforce GTX 275 896 MB OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64. Halosheep Says: January 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am. Hope someone can help, my problem is with online play. With my main character (level 50) i cannot play online, since it will …Read more… [...]
March 16th, 2010 at 11:24 am
[...] Vista Home premium 64. Nvidia GF GTX260. Justin Says: October 31st, 2009 at 11:51 pm. I have a freezing blank screen problem as well. The firs time it happened was at the “new you” console thing. I had to hard reboot out of that. ….. Video Card: PNY Geforce GTX 275 896 MB OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64. Halosheep Says: January 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am. Hope someone can help, my problem is with online play. With my main character (level 50) i cannot play online, since it will …Read more… [...]
March 17th, 2010 at 3:09 am
[...] intel 8400 no overclock xfx 750I. My game appears to install fine, however, double click icon to start game. and splash screen shows. Then windows says program stopped working. deleted splash screen info to disable it. …. Video Card: PNY Geforce GTX 275 896 MB OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64. Halosheep Says: January 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am. Hope someone can help, my problem is with online play. With my main character (level 50) i cannot play online, since it will just stay at …Read more… [...]
March 19th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
My game only crashes when i try to enter Rust Common East. The game runs smoothly everywhere else. Only when I enter RCE will it freeze with a GPF. Any ideas on this?
April 19th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP 2
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66 GHz
Memory: 4 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Hard Drive: More Than Enough
Sound: Creative SB X-Fi
Drivers: All Up To Date
I can run Borderlands fine, but sometime between 10-90 minutes after starting the game up my computer just shuts down without rebooting. I can restart my computer fine afterwards but this can’t be good on my hardware. Also, I’m not sure if this is related but I lose connection with the online servers very frequently. I can’t seem to stay on any server long, and I can’t stay on the game long either. Please help.
April 20th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Hi, if anyone here has a nvidia GTX 260 GPU or other from nvidia, and if your game crashes, with a random color screen and you have to reboot your computer, dont desperate, i have the solution.
-Get the latest drivers for your GPU
-Install an overclocking tool like EVGA or RIVAturner and lower your Shader Clock to around 1200, default is around 1400… the nvidia cards have a problem with the shader clock, so lowering it to 1200 will fix the problem for good… I had the same problem with metro 2033, left4dead, necrovision… but now its working perfect.
-Also check your fan speed, my fan was fixed at 40%, so i had to change the settings with the Nvidia Performance tool.
May 3rd, 2010 at 6:48 am
[...] geforce 9800. LoLMaster Says: October 30th, 2009 at 6:15 pm. My game have random crashes in the main menù and after in the “bus” presentation. some times i can reach the first mission. after the presentation the game run good
….. Video Card: PNY Geforce GTX 275 896 MB OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64. Halosheep Says: January 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am. Hope someone can help, my problem is with online play. With my main character (level 50) i cannot play online, since it will …Read more… [...]
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
[...] Vista Home premium 64. Nvidia GF GTX260. Justin Says: October 31st, 2009 at 11:51 pm. I have a freezing blank screen problem as well. The firs time it happened was at the “new you” console thing. I had to hard reboot out of that. ….. Video Card: PNY Geforce GTX 275 896 MB OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64. Halosheep Says: January 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am. Hope someone can help, my problem is with online play. With my main character (level 50) i cannot play online, since it will …Read more… [...]
May 25th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
I got EXACTLY the same problem as another person here, no one has help for this error…
General protection fault!
History:GetOutermost() Adress = 0xaadc6a (filename not found)[in C:\Program Files\Borderlands\Binaries\Borderlands.exe]
July 26th, 2010 at 1:17 am
“I have Borderlands and it runs perfectly for hours on end. I have crossfire’d 4870′s and I believe I had to disable catalyst AI in CCC for it to run though. I had to do the same for Quake and Doom etc…”
This worked for me (Windows 7 64 bit, 4870 xFire)
Thanks!
August 1st, 2010 at 11:44 am
when i first played this game it froze in 30 min, later in 5 min, then i lowered graphics GPU and memory at Catalyst Controll Centre, i also rose the fan speed. now i have played for hours withoud crashing
August 3rd, 2010 at 8:57 am
Ok this is the deal and what i have managed to get throught with. FOR THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE MAP LOADING PROBLEMS(Map stuck on loading…..forever)!
1) Your AVG (free or not, it’s the same) antivirus is blocking up some programs, try uninstalling it, and reinstalling it again after you reinstall your game. AVG sucks bad…
2) Go to Options menu of the game, and set Foliage Quality to LOW
3) Don’t upgrade your video drivers, you will make it more bad than it already is
4) Run the game and have fun. Worked for me
5) download microsoft security essentials
(OPTIONAL) XD
August 31st, 2010 at 1:13 am
Hi guys, I’m having a little problem with the inventory menu. Everything was fine, only the guns icon. They seems to be turned purple. I don’t know how to fix it. Please help me soon. Thank you
September 1st, 2010 at 9:51 am
Hey guys!
I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I’ve had with Borderlands for a while. I play as Lilith and I get a weird crash which noone else in any forum or discussion anywhere seems to get. It happens when I go into phasewalk, run up to someone and melee attack them to end phasewalk. It crashes the moment I do the melee attack. It doesn’t always happen but its quite frequent and quite annoying 
I’d be really grateful if anyone could post a solution they know of. Thanks ^^
O btw VampireODBC, I think that happens when you try to force Anti Aliasing using NHancer or something. I read on a forum somewhere that if you do, all your weapon icons will get purple outlines ^^ I dunno if there’s a fix sorry :S