Hello folks,

Looking for some help getting this game working.

PC spec:

i5 2500K @ 4.0GHz
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
Asus 7950 3GB DC2T (stock 900/1250)
Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB
Crucial M4 64GB
Crucial C300 128GB
Samsung F3 1TB
WD Caviar 2TB
Antec TruePower 550W
Windows 7 64bit

When I fist got the game from Origin two days ago it was running pretty good with most things maxed @ 1080p. I was happy to give up fps for eye candy, but even so it was still pretty smooth and certainly playable. I fired it up last night super keen to get stuck back in, but after anything from 5-25 minutes the game would freeze and I had to alt+tab back to desktop where I was then presented with a Windows Crysis 3 Has Stopped Working message.

I then tried:

Turning off AA, AF etc - crashed
Setting everything to High - crashed
Setting everything to Medium - crashed
Setting res to 1600x900 / High - crashed
Setting res to 1366x768 / High - crashed
Setting res to 1600x900 / Medium - crashed
Setting res to 1366x768 / Medium - crashed

I know it’s a game that will bring all but the best cards to their knees, but I would still expect it to be able to run ok on a 3GB 7950 and not just crash! Thing is, throughout all the crashes GPU temps were nothing abnormal... sitting around 55 which is less than when running Valley or Heaven (CPU temps are fine too). I get no artefacts or anything else to indicate the GPU is playing up either. The other thing that makes me think the GPU is fine is after the last crash I loaded FarCry 3 (with no reboot) and played that fully maxed out for about 3hrs with no problems. All my other games play fine too - BF3, BioShock Infinite, Metro and even a heavily modded Skyrim... it’s just Crysis that’s giving me grief!

Originaly my i5 was @ 4.3GHz (with auto voltage) so I relaxed it to 4.0GHz to see if it was the problem, however the game still crashed. The 7950 is factory oc'd and only a few weeks old, so I haven't oc'd it myself yet.

Onto tonight, I underclocked the 7950 to 800/1150, updated to new 13.6 Beta drivers, redownloaded game updates and even turned off Aero. I then managed to play the game on High @ 1080p for over an hour before it eventually froze up. I tried different settings and resolutions again but the problem still remains.

I did suspect it might be my PSU as it's only 550W, however that's still within spec for the 7950, and PSU problems usually cause shutdowns, whereas I'm just getting game freezes and can alt+tab back to Windows. The only other thing I can think to do is move it to the C300 SSD, but that's almost full with Steam games. Would it make a difference if I moved it to the Samsung F3 HDD?

Apologies for the long post, but I'm almost at the point of giving up and buying it for the 360!

Cheers,

Lee

Look again at your CPU OC, it causes many problems in Crysis 3. I had many crashes at 3.2 GHz, some crashes at 3.16 GHz, no crashes at 3.12 GHz (Stock clock for my Core 2 Quad Q8400 is 2.66 GHz). Try stock clocks to be sure it's not related to CPU OC.