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[tofuracer]

Hardware:

Processor: Intel Core I5 CPU 750 @ 2.67
Clock Speed: 2671
Physical Memory: 3.99GB
Display Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
VRAM: 896MB
Driver version: Blank on summary sheet but 270.61 was installed
Sound Adapter: Speakers (VIA High Definition Audio)
Driver version: 6.0.1.8700

Software:

Operation System: Windows 7 HP
DirectX Version: DirectX 10.0 (Mar2009) or later

The crash is seemingly random anywhere between 5 minutes and 40 minutes into game play. The graphics card is not overheating like i thought it may have been. I have uninstalled/reinstalled the game itself, the video and sound drivers. Thoughts?

[Moondoggie]

Have you tested various other games by playing them for a long period of time to see if the same crash occours? At least two games that use the same engine and a few others just to detirmine if the crash is being caused by something in the game, Something in the engine or with all games.

At a guess it sounds like your Motherboard has a problem.

Green screen crash indicates a hardware faliure.

Modifié par Moondoggie, 20 avril 2011 - 08:43 .

[tofuracer]

I've seen green, black and yellow at different times. I just finished replaying through mass effect 1 with no problems and I've played other games like Alpha Protocol, The Settlers 7, and Darksiders to name a few with no problems at all. The sound always continues for a short while then I am forced to do a hard reset. I would have though the motherboard already except the other games are working just fine so far. Is there another game worth testing with similar aspects?

[008Zulu]

I think its your video card, its factory overclocked yeah? I had this problem when I was testing out my bro's nVidia card.

[tofuracer]

Did you find a solution? I think I played through ME2 on this vid card before though...but it might have been my old one too...and that was when I had windows xp running with directx 9c.

[008Zulu]

You can check out the nVidia forums, they should have tools there that will let you rest the card to its default settings. Downgrade the drivers might help.

Personally, I use ATI video cards.

[Birdhive]

I don't mean to bogart your thread, but I'm also having hardware failure crashes after anywhere between 10 - 40 minutes of play--and I'm using an ATI card. Granted, it's an AGP, because that's what my aged motherboard can support, but I can play DA II with no problems, Origins (Ultimate) with no problems, and The Sims 3 (plus expansions) also with no problems. I'm only listing those games since I know I've played them since "upgrading" my graphics card (I know!) for DA II.

What engine does ME 2 use? What other games use it? If I knew, I could crash my computer in the name of science!

My driver is old, intentionally, because there's some wackaloon problem with the ATI "hotfixes" for AGP cards, which means when I install a newer driver, no driver is recognized at all. [I've spent hours on the issue, seriously, and I find it easier to use the 2009 driver, which is ridonkulous, really. Um, easier, because then my machine can actually SEE a driver.] Anyway. If relevant, I can post my dxdiag info. My motherboard is an MSI, with a dual Athlon 64 x2 4200 2.3, running Vista 32 (legit, up to date) with 4 gigs ram (I know!).

I kind of gave up on being able to play Mass Effect 2. But, er. I haven't played a FPS since the mid '90s. So, I'm not sure I miss it--I want to try though, one day. I've been thinking of trying ME, since it's so loved (got ME 2 free), but FPS games stress me out, and I have enough of that in my life already, so I waver about spending the dough. I have been thinking I need to play them both if only to get all the forum in-jokes.

[Bogsnot1]

@tofuracer: 32 or 64 bit version of Windows? Steam, EADM or disk version of the game? Did you install DX9.0c that came with the game, or cancel thinking DX10 would do the trick (which it doesnt). Please give us a full problem report as per the read first thread, found here:
http://social.biowar...6/index/4795299

@birdhive: Your system is too ancient to properly run ME2. ME2 uses the Unreal3 engine, Sims3 and DA2 use different engines which have far lower requirements than ME2. Never assume that just because one game works, another will work perfectly. Upgrade your PC.

[tofuracer]

Windows 7 64bit
Steam

Not positive about the DX9.0c thing unless steam installed it automatically. I did download DX9.0c websetup as per something else I read.

[Bogsnot1]

Steam should have installed DX9.0c, but the Steam versions of games often do things it shouldnt, and doesnt do things it should. If you have downloaded and installed DX9.0c as per another thread, then we can rule that out.
I would try older drivers foryour card, as the newer drivers from nvidia are often tweaked to optimise newer games, but older games such as ME/ME2 suffer because of it. Try the 257.21 drivers, link here;
http://www.nvidia.co...hql-driver.html

Note: If you are playing DA2, this may lead to framerate issues within DA2, as others have reported requiring the latest and greatest drivers in order for that to run smoothly.

[tofuracer]

Uninstalled new video driver. Installed old video driver. ME2 crash to black screen within 10 minutes. Forced to hard reset system.

[Moondoggie]

I'm still thinking this is a hardware issue rarther than a software one.

[tofuracer]

Alright I think Moondoggie might be right. I had given up on ME2 for a while and started trying to play League of Legends again and its crashing on me just the same. So...is there any way to test what it is specifically that you all know of? Vid card or motherboard?

[Gorath Alpha]

Three separate softwares and four pieces of hardware can all be implicated. The video bus itself (mainboard) can be bad, the slot can be dirty, the card's edge connector can be dirty, or not fitting the slot correctly. The cable from the card to the display can be loose or faulty, the display can have problems, and the graphics card may have a bad component.

Besides the driver for the graphic card, you also have to have a good, clean install of Dx9.0c. The game's own graphics files must all be good, and the save game files must be good. In other words, it can be complicated to track down.