Changed my response...

Perhaps you have something failing on the card. Or even your system memory could cause funky things to occur. I had system crashes before that all pointed to my graphics card but after warranty and research it turned out that my system memory was failing and not the card.

Some games have different effects on the hardware. It is how the hardware is addressed in the games that can cause this.

Error messages that may occur or even the messages you get with Blue screens may make it appear to be the graphics card but 9 times out of 10 it is your memory and not the graphics card that is causing the problem. Do you overclock your CPU or memory? Have you ever overclocked them? You don't have to overclock them for them to fail but overclocking without the proper ventilation or cooling can cause them to wear out a lot quicker. Even if you overclocked them at some point but do not anymore.

BTW, the trolling responses is from the title of your post and not the bulk of your message. I almost posted an amusing response myself until I read your post above mine.

Arg how would I know it's memory? In my research I keep hearing it could be my PSU, Video Card, MoBo, and now my RAM that would cause the issue. I wish I knew people who had spare PC parts in wihch I could test with...

Would the memory really cause the signal to die out in my video card? Keep in mind the PC can still boot into windows fine, I just get no video.

I had a similar issue, and it only screwed with my during Crysis 2. Now, I bought a new card from ASUS and I play Crysis 2 perfectly (except for the m1ndphcking-bugs.) I bought the card because my old card was over-exhausted and old. Now, while the reason for my failure may be different - doesn't mean the failure isn't the same.

I still stand by my suggestion: E-mail an engineer, more specifically someone skilled in computer engineering. Preferably someone from Gigabyte (which is where your card came from.) It may seem like a long distance to go, but as you can see:

* You miss tips because trolls keep pissing you off
* You will have a straight answer if you correctly explain the details of your issue
* It svcks to spend money on things you may not need


Good luck.

Problem is the title of this topic is already troll enough. Pretty **** thing to say for someone who doesn't know any better. It's someone jumping on the hate Crytek bandwagon

Err, operator error?

No way could this game physically damage hardware that isn't 10 years old.

KorJax, do you have any video on loading at all? Like BIOS?

Do you have any onboard video?

@KorJax
When screen goes black usually means that power section of the graphics card has died. Take a look at the link below, where sveral GTX460s were examined using infrared thermography under load. On all cards GPUs were adequately cooled but VRM sections were not (no heat sink, cooled directly by air). VRM temperatures were sky high on all of those cards. You haven't got artifacts because GPU and VRAM were 100% healthy, it is the VRM section that had failed.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/809-19/roundup-14-geforce-gtx-460-1-gb-cards.html

I have a 460 GTX, and I've never had this problem.

Crysis 2 simply isn't demanding enough to cause physical harm to hardware that isn't older then 10 years. Unless it was maximized for consoles in a way that made it incompatible with the significantly more advanced PC hardware?

A game will not fry your video card in fact no piece of software can, unless it changes the safety in the settings in the GPU BIOS. ALL GPUs are equipped to stop if harm starts to befall them, EX: to much heat you GPU will back off to 2d setting to prevent damage.

Not true...

Even Nvidia drivers can fry your card..just Google.

sounds like you dont have enough watts to power the card. my freind got a Nvida 250 or sum **** like that an burned it out in a week due to a weak power supply. id like to know what happened if you ever find out