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[Renshai1177]

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GIGABYTE EP45-UD3P Mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8500 (3.16G)
OCZ Reaper HPC Ram (4g DDR)
XFX Black Edition GTX 260 GeForce Graphics card (896MB GDDR3)
Corsair TX750W PSU
Windows Vista 64bit SP1

Okay, when I first started playing this game I had no problems.  Played through the whole game once before all of a sudden it crashed, hard.  Looked like when an old nintendo game crashed, concentric colors all over the screen (later sometimes a solid color or just black), complete with the horrible sound of a split second of audio repeating itself 100 times per second.  Eventually it crashed again, then with less time once again.  Each time it happened, the next time seemed to come sooner.  For awhile, they might go away, then come back. I have to hard restart my computer every time this happens.

Lately it happens all the time.  In the last 2 hours of play its happened twice.  It may only be coincidence, but it seems to happen the split second before a biotic ability is cast.  I'll be anticipating my warp or shockwave to cast, only to be dissapointed by horrific failure.  Someone please help, Its getting really bad and I have no idea what to do.

I have been monitoring my CPU/GPU usage and temp, they dont seem to be out of the normal range.  GPU tops out at about 75 C, CPU usage flirts with 100 sometimes on both cores.

Can anyone suggest why it would be getting worse?  My first playthrough was an Adept and this didnt happen, now playing an adept is like playing chicken with a semi on a bicycle

[Kalec Stromhir]

I bet that your ram is the culprit. Do a memtest on each stick, if you have errors, well replace them, not with OCZ again. G.Skill or Corsair.

Your not using the 196.75 nvidia driver? Hows the CPU temp?

[CraigHB]

Yea, sounds like a hardware failure. I had the same problem when a video card gave up the ghost.

[Renshai1177]

Oh man, don't even say video card, this thing broke my bank and it isnt even a year old, ram I can handle though. Forgive my ignorance, but how do I conduct this memtest and what do I look for? My cpus stay at around 40-45C.  And I am not using the faulty Nvidia driver.

Modifié par Renshai1177, 17 mars 2010 - 12:42 .

[Kalec Stromhir]

First one step at a time. www.memtest.org/
Download, then burn .iso to disk. When you booting up, make sure disc is in and load it up. Do the tests for each stick seperate.

[Renshai1177]

Bah, I downloaded the iso, burned it to disk, tried to boot it and no luck. I changed my BIOS to boot from disk, I hear the disk drive spin and the computer says booting from CD/DVD then windows just starts normally, I checked their forums and I dont see anything...sigh.

Downloaded an alternative program that scans while the computer is booted normally, gonna run it overnight.

Modifié par Renshai1177, 17 mars 2010 - 03:25 .

[Renshai1177]

okay I ran the program for 2 days and it has returned no errors regarding my RAM.  Also, played the game last night for about 2 hours before I had a crash, booted up and crashed again pretty quickly, once again, crashes coincided with the use of biotic abilities.

Modifié par Renshai1177, 18 mars 2010 - 07:21 .

[Renshai1177]

Man, why would this happen to a year old card.

[ME-BlindNero]

Renshai1177, it is your videocard. XFX black edition are overclocked. They do that to impress and win in benchmarks not considering some demanding games then crash. Solution is to undo the overclock in other words downclock to nVidia reference speeds.
Btw also update your Vista to SP2, and latest DirectX (currently Feb 2010).

Take the stock frequencies from this review www.legitreviews.com/article/830/1/ of your card.

Oh and check that you have PhysX set to hardware-accelerated... otherwise your E8500 trying to do the software mode might crash (100% load is too close to it).

Modifié par ME-BlindNero, 19 mars 2010 - 02:35 .