Crysis 2 Demo keep crashing! AHHHHH!!!!

lemon07r

lemon07r

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I Cant take it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I only get 2 play for like 2min and then bam, the screen tears like mad, it turned it down from hardcore to gamer and now i can play 3minutes before crashing. Then i turned on vsync which stopped the tearing (thank goodness). But now i cant still play more than 5min per a match before my pc restarts and gets stuck at the bios screen. What do i do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My sys specs are in my sign.
 
I decided to take a look at my my 4850 temps, so i clocked it down from 800/1100 down to 700/1050 and i idled at 34'C and loaded at 58'C under atitool in 5min which cooled back down to 38'C under a minute.
 
My cpu hit 60'C load after prime 95 4096k to 8k with 1200mb of ram tested 1min per fft. and it idled at 34'C. Its a phenom II B45x4 @ 3.15ghz. my 2gb ram is clocked at 1066mhz cl7-7-7-20 @ 1.5v my sytem idled at 32'C and loaded at 34'C.
 
im going to try right now, not sure if i should keep vsync on or off, alot of people have been getting problems with it on, i get 2 diferent problems either way, hope fully those will stop.
 
yeah, the thermal grease i had used was terrible (1.2W/mK) and it wasnt applied properly (he applied it with his bare finger :O). And the game works without crahing now. thanks for your help. The problem was my ram kept crashing cause it was cloacked at 1333 rather then 1066, cause my cpu was a little hot so i had to bump it down a bit and because my videocard was a little over oced. so thanks for your help.
 
Are you running dual monitors? Try turning one of them off, mine crashed a couple times and seemed to be solved by turning my second off.
 
Even though you may think you have fixed this, I will almost guarantee that your PSU is underpowered causing this issue. If you look at the specs that PSU only has ATX design standards, effectively locking 12V+1 to the CPU and leaving only 20A for the rest of that system 12V requirements. That is only 240W.

Essentially you need a new PSU and that is almost definitely the cause.

In the meantime, ensure you have the latest drivers for your GPU.

Also update Direct X http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...C4-6315-4D8E-9543-8E28A4E18C4C/dxwebsetup.exe

If you want to confirm the PSU issue, get a or borrow a multimeter and test the 12V rail under load. That PSU is a POS and has to go.
 
My voltages on idle:
3.3v = 3.296V
5v = 5.107
12v = 11.97

My voltages on (pime95 2 cores on load + 1.2gb ram tested + atitool) load:
3.3v = 3.264
5v = 5.107
12v = 11.88

Does this help?
(and i have the latest catalyst [11.2] and i had installed direct x again a week ago)
 
Please test that with Crysis running if possible. I would expect that 12V rail may even go out of specification. Are you testing that with a multimeter or some other tool?

Although that 12V rail is still within atx specifications (11.4 - 12.6V) that drop is really alarming. I would suggest you borrow a quality PSU and try it and see if the problem goes away, but IMHO, that PSU needs to go either way. The voltage regulation is very poor.
 
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when i 1st read his sig.... and before i read down more to bigfells post ,i was thinking psu also. those HEC psu's are ok for a facebook / facebook game machine Not for a gaming machine at all
 
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I had used the tool that came with my motherboard to check the voltages, i will be upgrading my pc in a month, il have a budget af $500 CAN, i guess il be upgrading my psu as well, thanks for the advice.
 
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