So started a stage the other day and it crashed my PC, got a blue screen of death with an error in my tcpip.sys. I had just edited the CDB but not in any major way and I have never had this kind of crash from a DB error.
Rebooted and the PC seemed fine but crashed at the same point when I loaded a stage. Again the PC rebooted fine but this time my PC thought PCM wasn't installed and had to reinstall from Steam. Once it reinstalled I started PCM and got a BSOD during start up this time (so hadn't even loaded a stage). And again when I restarted the PC, PCM was no longer installed.
Tried uninstalling through control panel and reinstalling but that didn't fix it PCM still crashed on start up. My PC is otherwise working fine, so far the only thing that causes a crash, other than PCM 17, is PCM 15.
Have poked around online for reasons for this crash and typically they point to driver or memory errors but haven't found anything. Did not install anything new except a couple of games. I might have had a windows 10 update but not sure.
Wondering if I should more completely uninstall PCM (with Steam it seems like uninstalling doesn't clean out that much) by deleting all the directories. But not sure that will help.
The next thing I'd try is uninstalling PCM with Revo Uninstaller so that every single trace of PCM is erased from your PC. Backup any PCM-data you don't wamt to lose before doing so, though.
Thanks will try that tonight. Do you think I need to uninstall all the prior versions as well (have like 5 versions)? Only other one I tested that crashed was 15 wondering if I need to do at least that one as well.
Well something fixed it. I didn't end up needing to do the full re installation. I followed the steps on the Support site in Steam for repairing DirectX, repairing the C++ redistributable and updating the graphics driver.
Did them together so not sure which one, but one of those seems to have worked as I was able to load and run a stage no problem.
