Fix James Bond 007 Blood Stone Installer & Setup Crash, Audio Issues

Wake up folks, another Bond game is out. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of James Bond video games. But judging by the response this game has received in various gaming forums, it’s no secret that this gaming franchise has a large fan base from all corners of the world. Blood Stone is a third-person shooter with elements of hand-to-hand combat - its PC version was developed by High Moon studios. Anyways here’s our routing troubleshooting article for this game – it is a short post but hopefully you will be able to resolve those annoying crashing issues with Blood Stone, if you are having any.

Blood Stone Installer freezing and crashes to desktop

The most common problem people seem to be having with Blood Stone is the installer freezing/hanging or crashing issue. This seems to be related to DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Windows Vista/Windows 7 based operating systems. If your installer crashes before the installation completes, try doing the following:

  1. Go to Start->Run. Type cmd.exe and press enter.
  2. In the command prompt, type bcdedit.exe/set nx AlwaysOff and press enter. This will turn DEP off.
  3. Reboot the machine
  4. Install Blood Stone

DEP is a security measure and it’s probably not the best idea to keep it disabled. Once Blood Stone installation is complete. do the following to re-enable DEP

  1. Go to Start->Run. Type cmd.exe and press enter.
  2. In the command prompt, type bcdedit.exe/set nx OptIn and press enter. This will turn DEP on.
  3. Reboot the machine

Fix for Audio looping, crash to desktop

This is a fix that was mentioned in TorrentLeech tracker comments section. I personally never ran into this issue nor tried the fix mentioned below. Try this if you experience audio issues or random or startup CTD.

  1. Set Audio Sample Rate In Windows and In-game to 16 bit,48000hz (DVD Quality)
  2. Right click "Computer"
  3. Click "Manage"
  4. Double click "Users and Groups"
  5. Click "Groups"
  6. Right click "Administrators"
  7. Click "Add to group..."
  8. Click "Add"
  9. Click "Advanced"
  10. Click "Find Now"
  11. Double click "Local Service"
  12. Click "Ok"
  13. "NT Authority\Local Service" should show up in the list now
  14. Click "Ok"
  15. Close Computer Management and reboot.

More fixes will be added here as and when they are discovered.

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