Hey everyone,

There is something wrong with my Crysis 2 installation. The game often crashes at random locations in both the single - and multiplayer. Before a BSOD appears, the monitor turns completely black, saying that no signal has been found. A 'sound loop' occurs here as well.

After waiting a few seconds, the blue screen appears telling me that the display driver crashed and failed to restart. (error 0x00000116).

There is nothing wrong with my temps - I checked it after I rebooted and the GPU was about 65 degrees celsius. I am still experiencing those crashes, even after I installed an older version of the driver. (I had the most recent).

I have a Nvdia Geforce 9800GT. I bought the game so it has nothing to do with broken cracks either. I am running a fresh windows 7 installation, 64x.

Has anyone else these problems?

sys specs below:

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz 36 °C
32nm Technology
RAM
4.0GB DDR3 (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
MSI P67A-GD65 (MS-7681) (CPU 1)
Graphics
V223W (1680x1050@59Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (EVGA)
Hard Drives
78GB INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC ATA Device (SATA)
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600JD-00HBB0 ATA Device (SATA) 35 °C
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600JD-22HBB0 ATA Device (SATA) 25 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C ATA Device
Audio
High Definition Audio-device
PSU
Seasonic 520 W

edit:
Just had another crash during a multiplayer game (I played ~2 minutes before it crashed). This is what I get to see before the BSOD occurs

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/3981/artifactsu.jpg

Followed by the following BSOD.

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4396/bsod.jpg

Has anyone a suggestion? I am 100% sure it has nothing to do with my GPU or hardware since I didn't have such problems with other games. No crash occurred during the GPU-stresstest either.

brother what's your driver version ?

I was using the Nvidia GeForce/Ion 266.58 WHQL driver (most recent for my GPU). I downgraded to Nvidia GeForce/Ion 185.93 WHQL. This didn't help.

I have the same problam,
same video card and my CPU is Core 2 duo E8400, let's say after 15min of play i get crach freeze, and i tried everything to do and i update my DiretX, the video card but its not help.

BSODs are usually driver-related. I would tell nVidia about it TBH. Nothing a game does by itself should cause a BSOD.

old graphic cards, and 4 gig memory, win 7 64 bit uses 3 gig memory, when your gpu have not enough memory, it takes from your ram and vise versa so that means you have maxed memory used.

Blue screen of dead is 99 times a memory problem our driver issues , so try find your problem in your memory/gpu.

They can also be caused by physical hardware faults, such as faulty RAM memory or power supplies, overheating of components, or hardware which is run beyond its specification limits

i think because you have a old card and 4 gig memory you are on your limited and thats why it shuts down.

mjcne - I think that 4 gig ram is more than enough. Crysis only uses ~1,5 gig and windows 7 does not use 3 gig. I know I have an older card but it does meet the requirements for Crysis 2. I didn't have any problems with Crysis 1 (or other games) and since other people have this problem as well (see InpcT's post above) I think it is not hardware-related.

So yea, there is something wrong with either the driver or crysis 2

I have a similar problem, the game randomly freezes in SP and MP the sound is breaking and I have to reset my PC. It happens every 10-15 min, so unplayable..
My Sys:
Win 7 x64
AMD Phenomen X6
HD6950 latest drivers, DirectX..
8GB DDR3

Lenny - You have ATI-drivers? Looks like it is not a driver problem since there are crashes with both Nvidia and ATI-cards. Crytek has to fix something.

Guys, stress test using MSI kombustor, and if it BSODs you will know it is gpu related. Either temperature problem or overclock is unstable

Yea they really need to fix the game.
I just tested it again, GPU temperature is normal (~70°C)

Yea they really need to fix the game.
I just tested it again, GPU temperature is normal (~70°C)

Since you 2 are the only ones ive ever heard of having this issue then it cant be the game. It would be widespread if it was. BSODing and checking temps is not reliable. Its gives the gpu more than a minute to cool down. Either stress test and see maximum temp or set your overclock to stock and see if it still does it.

Also, i had the 8800GT before, which is the exact same as you have. If it is a single slot stock cooler than it very well could be a temperature problem. My VRMs heated to the point of crashes, which until i got a new accelero cooler did it stop doing that. I also have my GTX 470 which i upgraded to the Accelero Xtreme Plus, the best air cooler you can get and my temps were below 50C with a maximum voltage increase OC and my games started crashing after. I eventually found out it was the VRM and i alleviated the problem by using better VRM cooling.

I will run the stress test later today and post the result here.

The stress test has been running for 20 minutes or so. (99% GPU load). It looks like the temperature is stable now - 73 degrees celsius and no crash.

I've got an identical issue, I can't even load my first checkpoint without a crash. If I could tweak some settings ( i.e. C1 ) maybe it would stop crashing. But apparently the only function the graphics menu offers, is asking me how stoned I am...

High?
Very high?
Extreme?

X64 4000 - 9800GT@48*C - 4GB - XP 32 SP3.

Lord_Lept,

If you have any overclocks in your system, try setting them to the default clock speeds. That's what fixed all of my crashes and BSOD's.

I didn't overclock anything.

I also didn't overclock anything, my System is brandnew (few weeks), so hardware should be fine.
And all my other games are running great, no issues, no crashes..
I don't know what to do, want play this awesome game

So what the solution that can help?

Just had another crash. :/

Just had another crash during a multiplayer game (I played ~2 minutes before it crashed). This is what I get to see before the BSOD occurs

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/3981/artifactsu.jpg

Followed by the following BSOD.

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4396/bsod.jpg

Has anyone a suggestion? I am 100% sure it has nothing to do with my GPU or hardware since I didn't have such problems with other games. No crash occurred during the GPU-stresstest either.

BSOD = hardware problem.

On the look of your screens.
Looks like arctifacts to me.

GPU overheating is my guess.

Has anyone a suggestion? I am 100% sure it has nothing to do with my GPU or hardware since I didn't have such problems with other games.

Yes it is.

Even if the Crysis 2 Demo / Crysis 1 ran perfectly? :/

Its your card man. Its nearing its EOL. (end of life). A 9800GT is 4 years old. Perhaps its time to upgrade.? One last thing you can do is set the fan to 100% and see if it'll cool the mosfets, VRMs, etc better. If not than its definitely a GPU problem.

Dude, your CPU is on the absolute bare minimum. An athlon 64X2 4000+ 2.0ghz is reallly slow man. You should just get a new CPU or system. I had my 8800GT with an Athlon 64 5000+ black edition and it was poor regarding performance. I Upgraded to mid end intel core 2 duo and i got quite a bit more FPS in all my games. I think you should look into getting a new PC if you want to run crysis 2 at all. that amd will probably force you to run at lowest settings with poor framerate.

Also, if the above doesn't solve your GPU problem, go here http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and download the drivers for your 9800GT. After downloading it, download this. http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Version-2-9-0/ . Than install it. Then you need to uninstall Nvidia drivers, reboot into safe mode, and run driver sweeper and select NVIDIA. After that install the nvidia drivers you downloaded, latest should be 256.58