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[WrathPit]

I know it's my machine and I know it's likely impossible but my video drivers crash every 10-20 minutes and freeze my system for about 5 seconds. Unfortunately, this is enough to reset my connection on the servers and kick me out of multiplayer matches. I'm getting very frustraded and feel like crap because I'm leaving games unintentionally and hurting other people's experiences. 

Is there a way to give my connection a longer timeout period? Once in a while, I can actually recover from the hiccup but not very often. Is there some way to change that somehow?

[WrathPit]

I give up. After the 50th disconnect on wave 10, there's no point in me even playing anymore. Was fun while it lasted.

[thatdude90210]

I was having a similar issue (couldn't get through 2 matches without freezing + freezes in single player too) until I started messing with my video card (radeon hd7950) settings. I made a game profile to override the ME3's anti-aliasing, and had the video driver do 4x AA instead. That cut down the freezes by a lot. Then I backed down my video overclock just a touch, still overclocked - just not as much. My freezes are completely gone now.

[Dusk1976]

@WrathPit: It'd help to know the build you're working with (Proc, RAM, Video Card) to try and diagnose where your issue is. It might not be a video problem; a "timeout" is generally due to massive Internet lag.

@thatdude: I'm using a Radeon 6870, but bypassing Application Settings. Your card is far and above mine, and I have no stuttering - SP or MP - with the following settings.

GPU: 950 MHz (from 900)
Mem: 1125 MHz (from 1100 - old AM2+ board struggles higher than this)
AA: 8x, Edge-Detect, Morphological
Tess: Optimized
AI: High Quality
VRefresh: Off, unless...
AA Mode: Max (Super-sample)
OpenGL: Triple buffer

You may need to apply a Hotfix to ramp up your card. 12.1 or 12.2 directly addressed ME3, but the newest one (I think 12.4 is current) should also fix it. I know the Hotfix is meant for Hydravision, but it also improves stability and performance for single monitors, as well.

Modifié par Dusk1976, 09 mai 2012 - 03:50 .

[WrathPit]

I get the message that my video card stopped functioning properly and when it restores to the game, ea servers have booted me.

I'm using an HP Envy 17 i7
8Gb RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Sadly, from research, I see that this is an extremely common problem from this machine. That'll teach me to never buy a gaming laptop again.

[Dusk1976]

Gaming laptops aren't the problem - HP "gaming" laptops are. HP is notorious for mobo/driver/quality issues, and their laptops are worse than their desktops. My aunt had an HP laptop where the mobo fried itself after just over two years. She's now rocking a MacBook.

Your rig should have more than enough juice to run ME3. The Mobility HD 5850 is on a par with a desktop 5770, so the graphics processing is present. You might want to try the Hotfix as well, or contact HP Customer Support (if it's still under warranty). The video card failing might be a manufacturing defect. Sad when you hope that's the case.

[WrathPit]

Taking it to a shop tomorrow to have a pro check the heat sink on it and see if it can be improved. If not, I'm just going to rip out the hdd and sell it to a friend.

I 'm just sick of laptops in general right now. I have to replace the whole machine rather than just piece by piece. For the most part at least. Too bad HP was all I could afford at the time. I don't even know where to go to get a good one anymore since alienware is dell and dell is terrible.

Modifié par WrathPit, 09 mai 2012 - 06:41 .

[Pekkan]

I started to have problems with my desktop PC that had Nvidia GTS 250.

Then I decided to underclock/downclock the GPU even from the factory settings. Now it never seems to crash or freeze.

Core 420 MHz, Memory 777 MHz, Shader 1111 MHz.

The factory setting Core was somewhere around 700 MHz, so that is about 40% down clock, I'll probably later test if is still stable at Core 500 - 600 MHz, but now I'm just happy that freezes are gone. Running the game on highest resolution, but pretty much all extras turned off.

On this benchmark scale which has GPUs ranging from benchmark results 300 to almost 4k, based on this the performance level of our GPUs should be relatively similar, so your GPU should be good enough to run ME3 also as down clocked.

http://www.videocard...h_end_gpus.html 

GeForce GTS 250 1,075
Mobility Radeon HD 5850 1,004 


Of course if there is still warranty left, then you probably want to ask money back or fix if the hardware is such a crap that it isn't stable even on factory settings speeds, but down clocking could increase stability.

Modifié par Pekkan, 09 mai 2012 - 08:41 .

[WrathPit]

So through further review, I see that ME isn't what's kicking me when the card goes out. It's Origin which pulls me from ME. I despise origin so much already. This doesn't help.

[WrathPit]

lol. So out of curiosity, I got a gpu monitor and saw just how hot ME3 makes my vid card. Mind you, it idles high already at around 60-65C. During an MP match, I clocked out at 88. So, should I start a kickstarter for a new computer?

[.458]

It might be the network is stalled when the video stalls. If you do not have a "real" hardware ethernet card, a heavier work load could stall network traffic for a moment. This game has some of the worst network software of any game out there. So what is your hardware for your network? Could you try, even with a temporarily borrowed setup, any other network, e.g., maybe even a USB network card? Just see if it *changes* the problem by much.

[Paperdollies]

Hey guys if you are a HP laptop user like me, especailly if its relatively new, such as the the new Envy and the pavillion series, please note that we have 2 graphic cards. One built in (i think i was told its built in the processor) and one thats dedicated to just graphics. And the computer switch between the 2 to optomize performances and quality. Although that sounds high tech and all, its actually really unstable to run a game on. I can not run a single multiplayer without my game freeze up then crash on my new HP. So I had to stop my HP Pavillion from changing graphic cards on its own and use the graphic card that's dedicated to, well, graphics. After that my game no longer crash. Sorry im not exactly pc literate, my partner is an I.T and he found the solution to the crashes. If you guys want i'll ask him to list out the things he adjusted to my PC. Sorry i cant be much more help, for those of you machine masters, you might want to check if your pc have more than one graphic cards

[WrathPit]

My Envy is slightly older. Bought it when Sandy Bridge was announced so it dropped about $1k into my price range.

[Paperdollies]

I asked my partner about that, he recon its still worth finding out if you have 2 graphic cards going at the same time, because it seem to be rather standard for hp gaming PCs. Because having them switching all the time is not stable for games at all. So this may not mean you need a new pc if you would like, i'll get him to list out the things he changed to my laptop.

[DHJudas]

this i a common problem among all laptops which have been "designed" to pack so much crap into a small space while riding their thermal edge when they are new.... more often than not they are designed to fail after about 2 years of general expected use. From the corporate point of view "There is no money in making long lasting products". Pretty damn sad.

Anywho, one of the best things to do is keep it clean, pull the covers off and blow the debree out, it's surprising the number of machines i've worked on that even within 3 months of use have managed to plug right up with lint and debree. Plus underclock things where possible, if you get a 2.4ghz i5 machine.... park the max clockspeed at about 2ghz, set the gpu from say it's 750mhz core down to about 650mhz and the mem from 850mhz down to 650mhz even. This will make for a considerably longer lasting, less heat generating laptop that's more stable.

Heat kills things, smoke just means it's dead jim.

Personally, if your planning on playing games, and you absalutely don't need the portability, stick to a desktop.... cheaper and much better in the end...

I must also add that the intel iGPU built into the i3/i5 and some of the i7's that use the Intel HD 3000 and 4000 series, are GREAT alternatives for video cards, able to provide 1080p gaming that put the xbox360/ps3 to shame.