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[Thorenor]

Well, no black screen here. Just freezed like a screenshot (with that stupid strange looped sound and pc not responding).

[tanstaafl28]

I am using XP SP3, freeze, crash to windows, occasional BSOD. I haven't touched it in over a day and I'm itching to play past the first few missions I have managed to complete between crashes.

[lhkendall]

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[Towik]

I bet your drive have like 10 errors already from this on your drive xD

[GodBID]

i havent touched ME3 after i got the first 2 freezes as the second one actually managed to damage my god damn win install (instant BSOD upon reboot etc) but i see from the forums that we are not gonna get a reply from bioware regarding this issue, infact bioware hasnt posted anything in like 3 days now on any subject.

[lhkendall]

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[AlexOf84]

I also have this problem. Sometimes when it crashes out I get the following message: "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

However, eventually it crashes out all together and the computer has to be reset.

My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and I have tried multiple version of the graphics driver.

[Decayy]

Well I went all the way to the beginning.

I did a complete OS re-install. Running on Windows 7 Pro (SP1) with nvidia driver version 296.10.

New install of ME3/Origin and still crashes on me. At this point I am thinking I have a hardware issue with either my GPU or my PSU. I also tried to run SWtOR same crash happens now, and also LoTRO same crash happens.

So this isnt an isolated incident with just ME3.

Now I just need to figure out if its my GPU or PSU. I ran furmark 1080p 15 min benchmark and my system crashed around 87 degree celcius. I know this is now a different issue for me, but generally does that sound like a PSU problem or a GPU problem to you all?

[Super64]

AlexOf84 wrote...

I also have this problem. Sometimes when it crashes out I get the following message: "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

However, eventually it crashes out all together and the computer has to be reset.

My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and I have tried multiple version of the graphics driver.

Have you tried disabling 'Spherical Harmonic Lighting' in the ME3 config tool?

[Nosfiarmus]

Decayy wrote...

Well I went all the way to the beginning.

I did a complete OS re-install. Running on Windows 7 Pro (SP1) with nvidia driver version 296.10.

New install of ME3/Origin and still crashes on me. At this point I am thinking I have a hardware issue with either my GPU or my PSU. I also tried to run SWtOR same crash happens now, and also LoTRO same crash happens.

So this isnt an isolated incident with just ME3.

Now I just need to figure out if its my GPU or PSU. I ran furmark 1080p 15 min benchmark and my system crashed around 87 degree celcius. I know this is now a different issue for me, but generally does that sound like a PSU problem or a GPU problem to you all?

Just out of curriosty are you using SLi?

Because there are quite a few people as have problems with that.
The problem seems to makes the nvidia driver restart or freeze in order to sort it self out, when it succes you will be thrown out to windows with the response "The Display Driver Stopped Responding and has Recovered", and when it doesnt it will sadly hardlock you pc. 

And from what I have seen this only seems to happen to newer GPUs.

Edited: Hmm I can see some none SLi users also seems to have the same problem.

Modifié par Nosfiarmus, 16 mars 2012 - 11:27 .

[Decayy]

Nosfiarmus wrote...

Decayy wrote...

Well I went all the way to the beginning.

I did a complete OS re-install. Running on Windows 7 Pro (SP1) with nvidia driver version 296.10.

New install of ME3/Origin and still crashes on me. At this point I am thinking I have a hardware issue with either my GPU or my PSU. I also tried to run SWtOR same crash happens now, and also LoTRO same crash happens.

So this isnt an isolated incident with just ME3.

Now I just need to figure out if its my GPU or PSU. I ran furmark 1080p 15 min benchmark and my system crashed around 87 degree celcius. I know this is now a different issue for me, but generally does that sound like a PSU problem or a GPU problem to you all?

Just out of curriosty are you using SLi?

Because there are quite a few people as have problems with that.
The problem seems to makes the nvidia driver restart or freeze in order to sort it self out, when it succes you will be thrown out to windows with the response "The Display Driver Stopped Responding and has Recovered", and when it doesnt it will sadly hardlock you pc. 

And from what I have seen this only seems to happen to newer GPUs.

Edited: Hmm I can see some none SLi users also seems to have the same problem.

No SLI,  and Im thinking its not a driver issue.  I am going to try and roll back to 285.62 since that was the driver that was allowing me to run over 16+ hours of ME3 game time before ariving on the Shroud mission on Tuchanka.  The fact that I was fine before that first crash, and afterwards all my games, not just ME3 crash/freeze/BSOD within 5 minutes of being open makes me believe its a hardware issue.  Im hoping if it is hardware its just my PSU, but I dont have an extra one to test the solution with.

[Nosfiarmus]

Decayy wrote...
No SLI,  and Im thinking its not a driver issue.  I am going to try and roll back to 285.62 since that was the driver that was allowing me to run over 16+ hours of ME3 game time before ariving on the Shroud mission on Tuchanka.  The fact that I was fine before that first crash, and afterwards all my games, not just ME3 crash/freeze/BSOD within 5 minutes of being open makes me believe its a hardware issue.  Im hoping if it is hardware its just my PSU, but I dont have an extra one to test the solution with.

Ohh sorry Decayy , I can see now that I didnt make it clear, that the problem I described above, was about a hardware issue in some of the newer GPU.
And when this error happens, the display driver seems to go down, and sadly no driver update or downgrade can fix this problem as it is a hardware issue.

I had this problem myself with one of my Gainward GeForce GTX580 1536MB Phantom triple Fan Edition, when i recieved it, and the problem presisted untill i got the GPU replaced, with a new one by the retailer i bought it at.

But I can't tell you, if it is the same problem, but it is a possibility.

Modifié par Nosfiarmus, 18 mars 2012 - 08:41 .

[lhkendall]

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[sarah_shepard]

OK guys, I think I've found the problem. I've done the exact same thing as I've mentioned two pages before, the only exception is that for me, the frequency needed to be changed from 900 to 750MHz on the VGA RAM Freq. Works now without a glitch for 15+ hours gameplay. Doesn't even get fps drawback I'm quite sure that this will work for most of you, just be sure not to damage your system. Enjoy this great story!

[Carcer11]

So how do you do that?

[lhkendall]

Changeing the freq.... did nothing for me..
Back to the work bench !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MizzNaaa]

Thorenor wrote...

Well, no black screen here. Just freezed like a screenshot (with that stupid strange looped sound and pc not responding).

I have the exact same problem. It started happening last night, even though nothing about my PC changed

[GodBID]

i see this thread is still unanswered by bioware haha amazing support.

Well the last week i've done a few stress tests on my system
Prime95 (30hours) :: no error on ram or cpu
GPU Benchmarking: No errors, no glitches
played Star Trek Online for 15hours nonstop running everything on max (twice the load ME3 requires) No hangups, no glitches no nothing
played TERA Beta during the weekend: about 20 hours or so worth: also requires twice the power ME3 offers, no errors no glitches no nothing (tera uses the same game engine ME3 does)

So there is absolutelly nothing wrong with my system, it's a ME3 problem only, can not reproduce in any other game at all, and seeing as bioware don't really give a crap anymore, this will be the last bioware product i sink money into that is for sure.

Modifié par GodBID, 20 mars 2012 - 12:35 .

[tanstaafl28]

Decayy wrote...

Nosfiarmus wrote...

Decayy wrote...

Well I went all the way to the beginning.

I did a complete OS re-install. Running on Windows 7 Pro (SP1) with nvidia driver version 296.10.

New install of ME3/Origin and still crashes on me. At this point I am thinking I have a hardware issue with either my GPU or my PSU. I also tried to run SWtOR same crash happens now, and also LoTRO same crash happens.

So this isnt an isolated incident with just ME3.

Now I just need to figure out if its my GPU or PSU. I ran furmark 1080p 15 min benchmark and my system crashed around 87 degree celcius. I know this is now a different issue for me, but generally does that sound like a PSU problem or a GPU problem to you all?

Just out of curriosty are you using SLi?

Because there are quite a few people as have problems with that.
The problem seems to makes the nvidia driver restart or freeze in order to sort it self out, when it succes you will be thrown out to windows with the response "The Display Driver Stopped Responding and has Recovered", and when it doesnt it will sadly hardlock you pc. 

And from what I have seen this only seems to happen to newer GPUs.

Edited: Hmm I can see some none SLi users also seems to have the same problem.

No SLI,  and Im thinking its not a driver issue.  I am going to try and roll back to 285.62 since that was the driver that was allowing me to run over 16+ hours of ME3 game time before ariving on the Shroud mission on Tuchanka.  The fact that I was fine before that first crash, and afterwards all my games, not just ME3 crash/freeze/BSOD within 5 minutes of being open makes me believe its a hardware issue.  Im hoping if it is hardware its just my PSU, but I dont have an extra one to test the solution with.

I can't find that version, which nVidia card do you have? 

[GodBID]

Well this is no longer my problem, i got a full refund from EA due to this, hope you guys can figure it out i've given up

Good luck with it.

[Dude_in_the_Room]

Guess what...I have the same problem except no screen of death. The game just pauses and I can't do anything so I have to power down.

But guess what....I'm using W7-32bit. This happened a couple of times with other games that used the Unreal engine like Batman:AA and ME2.

I don't know if anyone still reads this thread but I've found that if you run the game in windowed mode it doesn't happen. I found this out when I did this and ran Riva Tuner and a CPU temp monitor on the side so I could watch the temp during gameplay to see if it was that. The lock ups never happened when I was in window mode.

I tried window mode with :no borders" and after a day of playing it started again. So guess it's back to regular window mode.

Oh and bump, b/c someone at Bioware needs to get off their asses.

[lhkendall]

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[VenoM0ut]

sarah_shepard wrote...

OK guys, I think I've found the problem. I've done the exact same thing as I've mentioned two pages before, the only exception is that for me, the frequency needed to be changed from 900 to 750MHz on the VGA RAM Freq. Works now without a glitch for 15+ hours gameplay. Doesn't even get fps drawback I'm quite sure that this will work for most of you, just be sure not to damage your system. Enjoy this great story!

well thanks to sarah_shepard I can now fully enjoy my copy of Mass Effect 3! Before changing clocks, my core2duo cpu bus was at 333 and my gpu memory was at 900. I experienced lock-ups, freezes, game crashing to desktop etc. Then I changed my cpu bus speed to 300, just that it might work to be in sync with the gpu. And it did

[sarah_shepard]

Glad I could help. But don't punch you screen if it still freezes sometime, you just have to tweak it a LITTLE bit more down

[Carcer11]

How do you change these things?